Slings can be stressful, but I think that's why we buy them; they need so little from us once they get a bit older (as Cavedweller said)! Great first choice, and welcome to the hobby :)
My versi used to jump from the highest point in its enclosure into the water dish at the bottom. Freaked me out the first few times, like it was leaping to its death or something. Avics are just fun like that :)
Little slings will still scavenge, so like Hobo says a leg or other piece of a larger cricket will work. there isn't a lot of nutritional value to fruit flies so avoid them if you can, but they won't harm the T if you can't feed them anything else for a little while.
I've got a dozen T's, and every other Saturday I buy 30 crickets and divvy them out. Costs $2.14 with the 7% tax and I usually get double what I pay for :) There is no upside to me to be had from breeding anything, and as noted I have 10 more T's then you do. I would just buy crickets when...
Just to add, I am not upset this isn't what I bought, as the LP was $4 bucks at the time and the A geniculata was about 6 times that much. Just didn't expect it. I thought the colors would change as the T matured, but there you go.
Got this lovely T from Jamie about 18 months ago, and paid for an LP. I thought it looked odd for an LP, but being new to them didn't care much. Now that some time has gone by it seems very clearly to be an A geniculata, right?
My collection is strictly NW, and will stay that way. It's a deal I made with the Mrs, so there it is :) I tend to go 50/50 on arboreals and the big terrestrials. But my heart is with the Avics, if I had to put it that way. An A. Versicolor was my first sling, and I've just loved the Avics ever...
In regards to the original story, I'm saddened by it, but those things do occasionally happen. Certainly easier to understand coming from a 5 year old then those idiots who buy rosies and leave them on co-workers desks as a joke and what not. My father taught me as a small kid that spiders were...
I have a small cherry tree on my lawn that I planted with my son about 10 years ago. It is a dwarf tree, but a nice little thing. We keep the base covered in mulch, like a one foot high little hill around it. When one of my T's dies, I take it and place it on the top of the little mulch hill...
I really have no idea, but I've seen the occasional brownish A. bicegoi before. I've seen brownish A huriana's too. If it's wild caught I guess it could be any of many.
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