moving h.gigas

[Drew Acton]

i need to move my h.gigas from its old home to a new on shes only small but to big for her current tank whats the best way to get her out her burrow ?

[Stephen jordan]

Hi Drew, I use a small lemonade bottle with the end cut of, remove the lid and place a piece of kitchen roll in to plug the opening...then prod the spider into the bottle with a paintbrush, once in then you can coax the spider out by pushing the kitchen roll plug and leaving the spider no option but to leave the bottle. I use this method for juvies through to adults with no problems at all.
steve

[Colin D Wilson]

I've found the best way for me is to tip out the original tub into a larger box and then catch the spider in a cricket tub.
Another idea i tried with a larger sling was to transfer the whole contents of the small tub into a larger tub and then fill in around it with substrate, the sling just "held up" in it's original burrow the whole time, a bit fiddly but it worked (more by luck than judgement i think though) if you dampen the original tub enough so the substrate holds together then you can get the contents out as a whole.

[James Quinton]

what i've done in the past is to 'play' with the webbing at the mouth of the borrow, it then comes out thinking food is there, when fully out i then just gently coax it into a waiting tub and lid, then move spider to new house open lid then gently cox out with tongs going from the back of the spider.

[Drew Acton]

thanks all i with your idea colin but she now thinks shes an arboreal T bless her shel come to her scenes soon