Feeding failure😭

[Letsgooooo4321]

My spider it the pink toe tarantula,an arboreal tarantula,I don’t mind throwing food in the container but i though arboreal tarantulas barley go onto the ground so would they even noticed /eat it ? I tried to feed it earlier with tongs but apparently I should not do that and should just drop food in there instead?

 

[Charliemum]

My spider it the pink toe tarantula,an arboreal tarantula,I don’t mind throwing food in the container but i though arboreal tarantulas barley go onto the ground so would they even noticed /eat it ? I tried to feed it earlier with tongs but apparently I should not do that and should just drop food in there instead?

I would try and place the food in or as close to the web as possible and lots of ppl tong feed but no it can injure your t's teeth if they miss their target so best to just place food and not risk it

 

[LucN]

Depends on the prey item. For meal/super worms, you'd absolutely need to drop them right next to the spider, otherwise they'll just burrow into the ground and eventually resurface as an adult beetle that can be a real threat if your T happens to be molting. Crickets, on the other hand, will often climb and unless there's plenty of hiding spots, your Pink Toe will sense it eventually and grab it.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

I feed all my arboreals crickets. Crickets climb up, spider ambushes. Occasionally I need to coax said cricket to go toward the spider if it’s one I need to watch to make sure they get. What’s your set up look like?

 

[Wolfram1]

you can allways kill it first and put it close on the spider
that usually works

 

[Letsgooooo4321]

I feed all my arboreals crickets. Crickets climb up, spider ambushes. Occasionally I need to coax said cricket to go toward the spider if it’s one I need to watch to make sure they get. What’s your set up look like?

It’s a tall tank for reptiles ,I only have a cork branch and a water dish in it right now but I do plan to put more things in it.

 

[viper69]

Don’t use tongs!

Don’t understand the rest of your message

 

[fcat]

In addition to the above...If you have good aim, you can lightly toss it to them and they will catch it.

You can slip mealworms/superworms/wax worms through ventilation holes, while keeping your utensils safely away from your Ts. If they don't take interest pull it back out and feed it to someone else.

Learning to recognize hungry postures/behaviors (and the absence indicating the opposite usually), helps prevent feeders from rotting in there.

Here you can see my Avicularia facing the ground as if she's daring a bug to walk by, she's not in her hide.


I just put a wax worm in through the vent hole


She took it right away because she's hungry!

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Agreed on the worms through the vent holes. Just about all of my T’s, arboreal, fossorial and terrestrial, have taken worms that way.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

My spider it the pink toe tarantula,an arboreal tarantula,I don’t mind throwing food in the container but i though arboreal tarantulas barley go onto the ground so would they even noticed /eat it ? I tried to feed it earlier with tongs but apparently I should not do that and should just drop food in there instead?

Try crickets .

 

[Matt Man]

watch them. Arboreals will posture up looking down at the ground in search of food. That means they are hungry and they will see crickets and red runners moving around. Also, those 2 feeders tend to both climb, so they'll wind up wandering into the predator more times than not. I passively feed my arboreal Ts (just tossing the feeder(s) in, all of them are quite healthy and many are over a decade old