Can anyone please give me some advice on what to feed my newly purchased massive Theraphosa blondi? She is that big she turns her nose up at anything I put in and just gets stroppy with it, stridulating, flicked hairs up and bashing the floor when anything moves near her including food I've tried to give. The largest of mealworms are still too small for her to know that they are even there and I've tried frozen 'thawed' mice, giving them a wiggle and she dont want to know. Gets another strop on! She is new, but I would have thought that she would have settled in now being as it has been 5 weeks since I bought her home. The shop I bought her from kept her in a very small set up not much bigger than herself and so I haven't put her in an enclosure that is too big yet (but bigger than the one she was in) for fear of overwhelming her with space so her temporary set up is a small tank with no decoration other than a flowerpot which she has happily taken to and some water, and I haven't seen her come out of since. She heavily webbed it up after being in there for 2 days. So the weekend I pulled this away to check she is ok and she bashed the floor and told me where to go. I wiggled a mouse to her and she hissed and generallly just wont eat. She had a very large abdomen when I bought her as the shop said that she had eaten a mouse 2 days before we bought her. She has lost some weight now. I've increased the temperature and she hasn't webbed up so heavily this time. So my question to anyone who can help is what will she eat? I do not want to feed her live mice so please no suggestions being as I keep 19 gerbils it wouldn't be right. Am I not doing the thawed mouse thing right? Very puzzzled at the mo Lisa.
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