Link some reliable sources saying that tarantulas benefit more from a varied diet opposed to a fixed one. Don't just complain about our practices... Explain and prove why they're wrong if you truly believe so. Show us studies, statistics, reliable sources.... I'm sure myself and others would be more than glad to change our practices if there was reliable scientific evidence proving that a varied diet leads to a healthier, long lived specimen.
Actually that's not the case at all. As its impossible to replicate a natural environment, so we don't, in fact we urge new keepers not to do this....substrates can also be greatly varied as there are many that work, as well as many combinations...sub is pretty much a non issue as long as it doesn't contain pesticides, fertilizers and will hold up to burrowing. And humidity, well, these are spiders we are talking about, not amphibians, measuring humidity is pointless and something we constantly tell new keepers not to pay attention to. Any t can be kept in any humidity, those that require moisture content, merely need damp substrate, one's ambient humidity merely dictates how much water is added to the sub as well as how often.
Now here's another broad assumption. Many, if not most of us, do vary the diets of our spiders, even though there's not a single study that indicates it as a necessity.
Many people do... personally I feed crickets only because i overharvested my dubia colony. After they get back to reproducing though I will be feeding only dubias.
Nice strawman you have there. Nobody said "Every captive raised feeder is 100% nutritionally complete and all species are identical."
Not one person made this claim, at this point your just being defensive and holding your hands over your ears. There were several clear responses on the topic, one right above your post speaking of various good feeders...your initial claims on FFF were simply erroneous. If you would rather bury your head in the sand and twist things like that, then your wasting everyone's time. Do you want to have a discussion? That goes two ways.
