IRL Pets

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I usually drop a live cricket of an appropriate size into the enclosure, and they'll hunt it down. I use tweezers of course, not hands. Sometimes I let them snatch it right from the tweezers, and then feed the leg that usually remains in tweezers after the spider savages the cricket to the baby spiders that don't hunt yet.

Cool.

I keep tarantulas, which are under Mygalomorphae, while P.nigriventer belongs to Araneomorphae. So nope, don't have one and don't plan to, they are quite quick to anger. I've seen a P.fera, another species of the Phoneutria genus, on an expo but that's as close as I want to be near a Phoneutria anyway.
As I said, bite shouldn't be lethal to a reasonably healthy adult with medical care available, but it will make you wish it was.

So I'll skip that specie. From what I read, Grammostola spathulata is better to start, right?