Dubia Colony Justified?

[Tweak]

Gotta admit I'm curious to know too lol

 

[Theist 17]

Try feeding adult males (winged ones), there's a somewhat inhumane way that I can tell you that pretty much interests every tarantula.

What, take off a wing and let him keep moving with just one flapping around?

 

[Vespula]

there's a somewhat inhumane way that I can tell you that pretty much interests every tarantula.

Do tell.

 

[Masurai]

Do you guys truly have no problem getting your Ts to take Dubia? I have seen videos of Ts eating them ravagely - but I tried a couple of mine, and they just all looked at me like "dude, what I am suppose to do with this thing?" Maybe I should wait until everyone is REALLY hungry before trying again?

What size Dubia are you using compaired to the tarantula. I read that when introducing a new type of feeder that you should offer feeders that are smaller than normal so that the tarantula is more likely to see it as prey and not a threat.

 

[wesker12]

Well you get some scissors and snip off the antenna of the dubia as that's pretty much how they sense everything. Tarantulas don't just hunt by vibration - they have very strong chemoreceptors to allow them to "smell" their prey as well. If the tarantula still isn't interested in a frantically running around dubia or it still burrows - smash the head just a little bit, which coupled with the cut antenna pretty much ensures the dubia isn't going to burrow! If a tarantula still loses interest slit its abdomen just the tiniest bit and the whole enclosure gets flooded with a unique smell that attracts tarantulas pretty easily.

Might sounds crazy but can't be worse than being gummed to death by my mm A.metallica (half the roach was gone but the head and legs kept twitching and it even tried running away from me).

 

[Masurai]

Well you get some scissors and snip off the antenna of the dubia as that's pretty much how they sense everything. Tarantulas don't just hunt by vibration - they have very strong chemoreceptors to allow them to "smell" their prey as well. If the tarantula still isn't interested in a frantically running around dubia or it still burrows - smash the head just a little bit, which coupled with the cut antenna pretty much ensures the dubia isn't going to burrow! If a tarantula still loses interest slit its abdomen just the tiniest bit and the whole enclosure gets flooded with a unique smell that attracts tarantulas pretty easily.

Might sounds crazy but can't be worse than being gummed to death by my mm A.metallica (half the roach was gone but the head and legs kept twitching and it even tried running away from me).

That does sound like it would work. I'll have to file this away for later.

 

[Zeph]

Only two of my T's have accepted dubia so far (slings eating tiny dubia). They flip the dubia on their backs and drink from their bellies. I'm trying to introduce the dubia to the others until they finally decide to accept them. I usually crush their legs or sides so they can't burrow in the T's enclosure, but they're still barely alive.