Diplura sp. sling has been feeding on the same cricket for at least 12 hours

[Cursed Lemons]

This is my first curtain-web and I'm still learning about its behaviors. The sling is about 3/4" and takes down pinhead crickets no problem. Pinheads are hard to source where I live so I've fed him cricket legs before and he's taken them fine as well. Last night I couldn't get any pinheads so I picked the smallest of my small crickets, crippled it, and dropped it in. The cricket landed upside down and just decided to die right out so I left it over night. Woke up this morning and saw that the spider was eating it. Now I'm back from work and the spider is still eating it. The cricket is a bit big for the spider, a little bit bigger than the spider's body. I'm not used to spiders taking an entire day to eat a cricket, is this something to be worried about?

 

[goofyGoober99]

Not a 1 to 1 comparison but my Phiddipus regius has definitely taken a good 8+ hours with a mealworm before and she's fine. I also keep pholcids and they'll pretty regularely wrap up prey even if they don't eat it immediately (a snack for later I guess lol). I probably wouldn't be too worried for the time being if everything else seems to be going ok

 

[Theraphosphor]

From what I understand, mygalomorphs are easier to overfeed and don't self-regulate like araneomorphs do.

Can anybody else confirm, and offer guidance on how large/often to feed?

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I’ve had a tarantula take that long to eat a roach. It’s not unusual amongst spiders.

 

[Wolfram1]

if you feed them based on their opisthosoma/abdomen size you wont have this problem

when freshly molted the abdomen is smallest, you can feed at any intervall you like, but i would go for about once a week to once every two weeks

then as it expands the possibility of starving goes away, now you can space it out more

ofc they stop feeding once they are full, just like theraphosidae

for larger spiders i try to space feedings evenly with the goal of reaching the point where they are full/refuse food to the aproximate time of their next molt, so they never go into fasting

for wee ones like yours you can stuff them, overfeeding is not really a concern at that stage, i'd still space it out to about once a week

it might already be full just from that one cricked, who knows