I just got my tarantula. She's a 2.5-3 inch Chaco and I love her already. The person I bought her from (Dave Grimm for any of you who want to know) sent me like 30 B. dubia roaches of various sizes with her (in a different container of course)
I'm going to wait a few days before feeding my tarantula and even than obviously she won't be eating 30 of them right off. How do I keep them alive? I have absolutly no experiance with any kind of roach. Right now I put them in the smallest KK that I own in the substrate they came with.
My Questions:
Do they need water?
What do they eat?
When I feed my tarantula should I give her the bigger roaches or the smaller ones and how many?
Do the roaches like it in the dark?
How much substrate do they need and what kind?
Is there any special thing that I should do to switch the tarantula from eating roaches to crickets if I do that later?
Sorry about all the questions, but like I said I didn't expect roaches to come with the tarantula. It's a wonderful suprise because now I don't have to rush to the store for crickets. I just need to know how to keep them alive so my tarantula can eat them.
I'm going to wait a few days before feeding my tarantula and even than obviously she won't be eating 30 of them right off. How do I keep them alive? I have absolutly no experiance with any kind of roach. Right now I put them in the smallest KK that I own in the substrate they came with.
My Questions:
Do they need water?
What do they eat?
When I feed my tarantula should I give her the bigger roaches or the smaller ones and how many?
Do the roaches like it in the dark?
How much substrate do they need and what kind?
Is there any special thing that I should do to switch the tarantula from eating roaches to crickets if I do that later?
Sorry about all the questions, but like I said I didn't expect roaches to come with the tarantula. It's a wonderful suprise because now I don't have to rush to the store for crickets. I just need to know how to keep them alive so my tarantula can eat them.