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I remember this thread. Not sure anything was ever learned from the experience.
For slings I always cut them up in multiple pieces , I however need a job to afford new slings still hunting .I'm sorry that happened. I have sadly had mealworms eat two slings in the past - that was a lesson learned on my part for sure.
If you're going to stick with mealworms, crush the heads before feeding them to the tarantula.
I was concerned about this as well. I crushed the head of a super worm til I felt a crunch, but it still managed to burrow. I told AB I did it wrong and was told to dig it up ASAP. Spent 30 minutes to find a very dead super worm. Still glad I didn’t take my chances, but now I feel more confident in my head crushing abilities.I for one am pleased this thread has been resurrected. I was chopping up mealworms for my slings, but last night I just crushed the heads - I wasn’t sure if I’d done it enough.
I either cut the head clean off and wait several minutes to make sure it's not moving at all, or just crush its head with a spoon and check in a half hour to make sure it is dead. Probably overkill but my one t that gets mealies poses some problems as they are never out. I haven't even seen it in months outside of a few legs and the booty! So the last thing i want is to put a half dead worm in there while the t is molting. Cause I'll never see the outcome.I for one am pleased this thread has been resurrected. I was chopping up mealworms for my slings, but last night I just crushed the heads - I wasn’t sure if I’d done it enough.
When you crush the head do you have to smash it to oblivion or just squash it until some juice comes out? Also, same question for crickets?
They were gone this morning, hopefully eaten. Neither one was trying to burrow last night. Just lying on the sub, not moving.
When I crush worm heads I crush along the sides of their head and not on the top and bottom. Always do it around the mouthparts, too.I for one am pleased this thread has been resurrected. I was chopping up mealworms for my slings, but last night I just crushed the heads - I wasn’t sure if I’d done it enough.
When you crush the head do you have to smash it to oblivion or just squash it until some juice comes out? Also, same question for crickets?
They were gone this morning, hopefully eaten. Neither one was trying to burrow last night. Just lying on the sub, not moving.
Maybe he thinks tarantulas are in the reptile family?I wonder if this guy continued to keep leaving "mealworm dish" in the T enclosures and wonder why his Ts kept dying...
For my 1" slings I cut the worms in halves, but I'll still smoosh the head. I'll also feed off the pupaes in halves.I for one am pleased this thread has been resurrected. I was chopping up mealworms for my slings, but last night I just crushed the heads - I wasn’t sure if I’d done it enough.
When you crush the head do you have to smash it to oblivion or just squash it until some juice comes out? Also, same question for crickets?
They were gone this morning, hopefully eaten. Neither one was trying to burrow last night. Just lying on the sub, not moving.
dang itHello im new to this forum and this is my first post, been wanting to make an account for some time now but this indecent has forced me to stop procrastinating it!
Summary: My T was fine yesterday, but today it was on its back in a slight indentation in the substrate so i thought well its molting, so i left it alone for 10 minutes and placed its enclosure in a more accessible place to keep cheeking it every few minutes as i always do to watch it molt(a process which never ceases to amaze me) but i noticed something odd, not sure what, maybe the lack of switching of its legs or something and so i moved it slightly and discovered a rouge meal worm eating it from underneath!!!
Once i saw this i experienced a mixture of horror, anger, sadness, disappointment and curiosity, mostly because the poor spider was eaten alive while it was completely helpless and that alone must be one of the worst ways to go.
T description: it was a wild caught specimen from the mountains of Argentina in Mendoza. Never really verified the species buy my best guess is that it was a Chilean copper because of its small size and its habits, the same as a rose hair t, fasts for months never drinks, basically a pet rock.
It was 3 centimes long from head to abdomen(not leg span). This one was 1 of 2 spiders that i caught, and at the time of capture they looked identical in appearance and size but the one that still lives now is about 3 times as big and has molted much more and always appears much more healthier, the one that died in 3 1/2 years must have molted 3 times and never really grew that much which i always found odd so i thought they must be different species.
Anyway now i am concerned for my other T, even though it is a least twice as big im pretty sure it has some meal worms lose in its enclosure, i used to hand feed them and remove the mealworm if it didn't eat it then and there but because sometimes they have fasted for up to 6 months this last year i have been also leaving a mealworm proof dish with some worms inside so that the may eat them when they are hungry(and they do) but because the Ts move the substrate some do climb out sometimes and get loose in their enclosure.
What should i do? get a very deep mealworm dish so that there is no chance of them getting out or just try to hand feed them each week? has anybody had this happen before, i have read that crickets could harm the spider but i never though that meal worms were this vicious! or opportunistic given that they had nothing else to eat because they were in the Ts enclosure and slowly starving.
Depends - are they hungryHi everyone!
I’ve got an issue with a zophobas that dug in my T’s enclosures substrate...
So as I read here, terrible things can happen to my T...
So I came up with a question, is there a way to lure that flash eating worm out of my T’s substrate, without ruining the whole setup and stressing out my T?
Thanks in advance!!!
Wow,you can do that at 4 years old?!I'm begging everyone to stop resurrecting threads that could now get a learner's permit to drive in several states.