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Mine make me cut off the crust....picky buggers.Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Cut diagonally.
Mine make me cut off the crust....picky buggers.Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Cut diagonally.
And absolutely NO crusts.Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Cut diagonally.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Cut diagonally.
Mine make me cut off the crust....picky buggers.
Just a question: for those spiders that will take crusts, do you need to prekill the PB&J? Doesn't it burrow? Or does crust removal prevent this?And absolutely NO crusts.
I hope that's not a serious reply... :laugh:Wow, good job feeding your spiders grain. They are carnivorous, and should be fed as such.
i'd be careful with phoenix worms. they're very high in calcium and i've heard that excess calcium can create molting issues. i don't have any personal experience with them with T's (i do feed them to my lizards who benefit from the extra calcium) but i've thought about feeding them to T's in the past and decided against it for that reason.Crickets (banded cricks seem to live way longer for me with a lower mortality rate), Superworms, Mealworms, Flightless Fruit Flies. I want to pick some phoenix worms up as well because they are supposed to be excellent for bearded dragons and leopard geckos. I've started to pick up a few horn worms from time to time for my leopard geckos and sugar gliders. I don't think my B. albiceps is big enough to handle a horn worm yet though. Still a juvie. For the slings I sometimes just kill a bigger worm/crick and use the pieces. I crush mealie heads so they don't burrow or bite.
I like to mix it up and give variety.
That calcium/molt myth needs to die already...they're very high in calcium and i've heard that excess calcium can create molting issues.
There is no truth to that myth; please don't keep repeating it. In the wild many tarantulas eat a fair percentage of small vertebrates. Calcium is a non-issue with tarantulas.i'd be careful with phoenix worms. they're very high in calcium and i've heard that excess calcium can create molting issues.
yes this is how i heard it, since i have lizards whose crickets and roaches i have to dust with calcium i looked up whether that was a good idea for T's too and found this thread among others. so if this is just a myth, that is good to know, it'll make life a little easier not needing to worry about separating my dusted "lizard" crickets from my non-dusted "T" crickets.You'd be surprised how many people believe that. I could probably find so many results for people saying calcium can cause molting problems just by doing a quick Google search.
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I wish I had one that big. I had a dream once I was riding to work on a giant B. smithi...I feed my big girl small neighborhood children :sarcasm:
Thank you, that made me laugh.I wish I had one that big. I had a dream once I was riding to work on a giant B. smithi....
Yes, but they're also the backbone of the hobby. Some people can't legally have roaches, and some spiders won't eat them. If you have a good-sized collection it's just about impossible to raise enough, or afford to buy enough. I use 1,000 to 2,000 adult crickets a week; there's no way I could produce or afford an equivalent mass of roaches.Crix are nasty