power feed slings

[solaceofwinter]

anyone have any tips on how to power feed slings? seems like once a week ill give them a cricket, 2 slings are around 2" id guess, other one is still around 1/4". 1 cricket a week enough? their abdomens dont look like they could handle much more sometimes lol.
i keep the temps up, about 80 all the time. is this feeding schedule ive got them on about right or all i could ask for? thanks

 

[greenbay1]

We all vary on how often we feed and what we feed slings. I usually do 1-2 crickets a week for my slings. Some (my pokies and P. pulcher's) are voracious and I usually feed them more. I don't like to power feed but I'm not against those who do. I think most Ts find minimal food in their natural surroundings rather than Americanized buffets.

 

[Mattyb]

For my slings that are 2" and bigger i feed them a cricket about every two or three days. for my smaller slings i feed them a cricket usually everyother day.


-Matty

 

[Beccas_824]

To me "powerfeeding" was basically giving your T's/slings all the crickets they could eat before they were too stuffed to eat anymore.
I've never powerfed by the above definetion but I have always fed my smaller slings (like under an inch) every other day or so, just because I hate pinhead more than i hate adult crickets.
Everyhting between 1 and 2 inches gets a cricket about every 2 to three days.

 

[TheDarkFinder]

Warning about power feeding, if you feed them too much when they are small they may have trouble molting. By the denfintion that is floating around this forum, I power feed. I will give them as much as they will eat at one time every 3-4 days. The means the avgerage sling will get about 3-6 roaches a week. The size of the roach will depend on the tarnatula but it never goes bigger then the carapace. I never let them get too full. If abdomen is bigger then the carapace I wait.
thedarkfinder

 

[David Burns]

I think maybe there is a small, tiny, infinitessimal chance that I might just possibly could be defined as someone who power feeds.

I like to give my slings one or two criks a day. I have never had a sling have any trouble during a molt and only 2 juvies, out of more than a hundred or more, that had some difficulty, but those troubles were caused by other factors. When they reach mid size, for their species, I feed 4 or so times a week. Near adult size I feed twice a week.

I vary this order from time to time. There are times when I will feed males less then the females I hope to breed them with.

 

[solaceofwinter]

i just want to feed them and get them out of sling stage thats all.

 

[Pennywise]

Ditto Matty

I feed on pretty much the same schedule as Matty. If a special case demands
more or less food then I adjust for those individual s'lings.

 

[Mattyb]

I feed on pretty much the same schedule as Matty. If a special case demands
more or less food then I adjust for those individual s'lings.

Yup same here, i adjust as well


-Matty

 

[wolfpak]

i feed my slings everyday, until the can't feed anymore. never encountered any moulting problems.

 

[Midnightcowboy]

I feed my slings a couple of pinheads every couple of days. I just want to get them past the first couple of molts, and then when they're a bit more robust (about 2.5 inches) I feed them one appropriately sized prey item every 3-4 days. Adults get fed weekly. I feed my adults less than my slings, as I'm not a fan of fat tarantulas. I think spiders look their nicest when the opisthosoma is a nice average size.

 

[BakuBak]

Warning about power feeding, if you feed them too much when they are small they may have trouble molting. By the denfintion that is floating around this forum, I power feed. I will give them as much as they will eat at one time every 3-4 days. The means the avgerage sling will get about 3-6 roaches a week. The size of the roach will depend on the tarnatula but it never goes bigger then the carapace. I never let them get too full. If abdomen is bigger then the carapace I wait.
thedarkfinder

never had problems with powerfeeding

 

[TheDarkFinder]

never had problems with powerfeeding

I have not had problems with powerfeeding, but if you read the past threads on powerfeeding you find people saying you get bad molts.

I was just warning what could happen. Once again, I powerfeed and have not lost a tarantula to powerfeeding. It may lead to problems, not that it will.
thedarkfinder

 

[xgrafcorex]

powerfeeding

i also believe powerfeeding is letting it eat as much as they will. my b vagans is only about 1.5" now i guess maybe almost 2 and it'll eat a small/medium cricket once a day and if one the smaller side, will eat a couple a day.

 

[BakuBak]

I have not had problems with powerfeeding, but if you read the past threads on powerfeeding you find people saying you get bad molts.

I was just warning what could happen. Once again, I powerfeed and have not lost a tarantula to powerfeeding. It may lead to problems, not that it will.
thedarkfinder

I just think people will always find something to blame

 

[jojobear]

After having read this thread I think I might be power feeding my little 1" guys. I thought I was being a bad parent by feeding them 2 pinhead size roach nymphs every other day and was going to up the portions. I guess I should probably cut back; they all have "big booty" syndrome.