Favorite Feeders

[NZealo]

Little bit less on our favorite little companions, and more on their favorite food. I originally started off with the classical crickets, but I was never a big fan of them. Didn't like having to go to the store to buy them, and their a little picky on keeping alive, not to mention they kind of stink.

Tried breeding Dubai roaches, but I find that they breed a little too quickly for the number of T's that I have. That and I don't really like touching them, they give me the Bluu vibe. That and I'd have difficulty with my T's loosing them, and the Dubai's would just bury themselves in the substrate.

I've finally settled on Madagascar Hissing Roaches, and I love them. They breed slowly, their babies are nice, soft, and plumpy for my T's. They are slow moving, and oddly enough, I like the little grumpy hisses they make.

What's your favorite feeder, and why? 🫵

 

[viper69]

Mine get filet mignon sliced thin by Himalayan virgin women

 

[Dppires]

Little bit less on our favorite little companions, and more on their favorite food. I originally started off with the classical crickets, but I was never a big fan of them. Didn't like having to go to the store to buy them, and their a little picky on keeping alive, not to mention they kind of stink.

Tried breeding Dubai roaches, but I find that they breed a little too quickly for the number of T's that I have. That and I don't really like touching them, they give me the Bluu vibe. That and I'd have difficulty with my T's loosing them, and the Dubai's would just bury themselves in the substrate.

I've finally settled on Madagascar Hissing Roaches, and I love them. They breed slowly, their babies are nice, soft, and plumpy for my T's. They are slow moving, and oddly enough, I like the little grumpy hisses they make.

What's your favorite feeder, and why? 🫵

Even with their small size, I’ve been using red runners as a staple feeder for some time now and their behavior triggers my tarantulas feeding response the same way crickets do. Since I’m done keeping crickets, runners are the main choice and male dubias to larger species.

Also, not being able to climb is a pretty big plus.
Hissers take too much time to reproduce, which makes it pretty hard when you have a big collection. Adults get way too big to most of my spiders, specially males. They just don’t work for me.

 

[Wolfram1]

2.0 Lucihormetica verrucosa

• Wolfram1
• Sep 25, 2023
• 3
• insect roach

light- and darkcoloured male

breed much slower, but they are much tougher than B. dubia, are poor climbers, are also live birthing, can be kept from moist to dry, but they do enjoy a nice medium moisture, eat their own dead better, so i don't have a problem with Phoridae and they eat basically everything

they do need some proteins from time to time, but not too much

if you feed them enough leaf litter they will even build up a nice, fluffy, earth like substrate, rather than the gunky disgusting mess that S. lateralis create for example

something for smaller collections though, since they don't breed as quick as other species, so it takes quite a while to build them up and i have heard that its better to start off with a decent number (i started with about 100 adults and larger nympths) since they are a bit reliant on a group in order to thrive properly.

Have tolerated temperatures as low as 18°C and continued to breed and reproduce at those temperatures but they will develop much quicker if you raise the temperatures.

adults are smaller than Gromphadorhina portentosa, more along the size of B. dubia, but other than that very similar in terms of care i imagine, probably tougher.

Perhaps i will try keeping some hissers in the future, how are the flies? Any problems with Phoridae?

 

[Mustafa67]

Little bit less on our favorite little companions, and more on their favorite food. I originally started off with the classical crickets, but I was never a big fan of them. Didn't like having to go to the store to buy them, and their a little picky on keeping alive, not to mention they kind of stink.

Tried breeding Dubai roaches, but I find that they breed a little too quickly for the number of T's that I have. That and I don't really like touching them, they give me the Bluu vibe. That and I'd have difficulty with my T's loosing them, and the Dubai's would just bury themselves in the substrate.

I've finally settled on Madagascar Hissing Roaches, and I love them. They breed slowly, their babies are nice, soft, and plumpy for my T's. They are slow moving, and oddly enough, I like the little grumpy hisses they make.

What's your favorite feeder, and why? 🫵

Locusts because it’s fun to watch Ts eat them

Or when they get stuck in webbing and I do the Jaws music while waiting for them to get devoured

 

[fcat]

I keep a few different species of mealworm ranging from mini to super. They probably don't live the best life if I find them easy to keep but they are my "backups"

Not many of mine seem to be into roaches, so those became my pets. I have dubia/discord, and orange heads pets now. I grew too attached.

Crickets I will always keep on hand...for me. I love the sound. My Ts seems to prefer them too. After a jerk move by the usps, I have been freezing the dead ones and then feed them to the birds outside... they LOVE them. I tried feeding a baby scorpion a mini worm and it ran away from it

I used to not be afraid of hornworms but yesterday I remembered I had to feed off two containers worth. A date later and I would've been out $50. I appreciate how fast they grow but if you don't have backup food for them you will kill them. They are dumb and will drown themselves in the Ts water dish even though they would never encounter a body of water while eating tomato bushes in the wild. I fed off about 50 yesterday, I got bit by 1 in 3, and only one made its way to the water dish. They are very popular with my Ts. If you have the means to let them pupate, they make my Ts most desired meal, but man those moths can poop.

Wax worms are my favorite, Ts of any size will usually take them, but they are a mostly safe feeder to drop in and walk away. I especially like doing that with the chrysalis and slings when I rehouse them, especially if I'm going larger to skip a few steps. I've seen them eat the chrysalis! They go ape for the moths. No life stage goes to waste. A few of those will live long enough to cover my sling's food needs for the whole molt cycle. It also encourages exploration of the new digs.

 

[kingshockey]

i kidnap my annoying neighbors to drain their blood to feed all my ts with. ran out of neighbors so we bought a house now. usually use meal worms to grow out my slings and then super worms after they hit an inch in dls. every now and then i go buy enough crickets to feed off at one time along with any neighbors i can trap to use as feeders after gut loading them

 

[Ratmosphere]

I like using banded crickets and dubia roaches.

 

[zsiciarz]

Mostly lateralis roaches, sometimes B. dubia. When my L. verrucosa colony grows, I'll use some of those as well (BTW thanks @Wolfram1 for the tips!).

 

[sparticus]

I use dubia as the staple, I crush the heads so they don't hide well. I like to give them a wide variety of foods, though. Tiny slings get crushed baby isopods, fruit fly maggots/flies, mini mealworms. Bigger spiders get dubia, captive raised housefly maggots and flies, mealworms, crickets, waxworms/moths, occasional larger killed isopods. I rarely feed hornworms because they're over priced around here. I have also given occasional earthworm chunks. Arboreals don't seem to recognize them as food, but most of my burrowing terrestrials love them.

 

[Nitroxide]

I don't have many options in Canada so I mainly use crickets and superworms for the larger adults. From time to time maybe a waxworm but mainly the basics.

Also am not a fan of crickets, too much upkeep to keep them alive but I've been having to pick some up every week now because of my slings & juveniles so don't have much of a choice.

 

[Introvertebrate]

I don't have many options in Canada......................

Yes, I've heard that escaped roaches literally run amok in the snow up there.

 

[TTJOHNS22]

I bred dubias for years and years I really like them, but the crickets I've never hated their so active and gutload easy. I'd say crickets are better than meal/superworms. I wish we could try locusts in the US. Another species I plan is blaberus giganteus just to make things interesting.

 

[sparticus]

Yes, I've heard that escaped roaches literally run amok in the snow up there.

Yes, on their little roach snow skis. A huge problem, unfortunately.

 

[Sauga Bound]

Locusts because it’s fun to watch Ts eat them

Or when they get stuck in webbing and I do the Jaws music while waiting for them to get devoured

oh, man am I jealous of those of you who can get locusts and grasshoppers as feeders. I’m in Ontario where any good snack a T might want besides crickets are illegal unless you can catch grasshoppers in the summer (I haven‘T seen one in the nearby meadows since I was a teenager) or a severe enough infestation in your house that you can catch and feed German roaches.

My Pulchra will pretty much only eat crickets - I’ve tried mealworms, silkworms, and useless discoid roaches which would only be a meal for a sling if it even ate the damn thing. I have yet to try wax worms and horned worms, but am more willing to try now that I have a GBB who will almost certainly eat what the Pulchra rejects, lol.

Crickets are like McDonald’s for T’s - irresistible to them but generally unhealthy for them unless one raises their own or get them from a conscientious breeder.