Feeding super worms ?

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I tried this lid to stop them from burrowing and like they escaped, how do you corral them so the T can find them without burrowing?? None of my Ts seem that interested in them I’m getting crickets next time.

 

[arthurliuyz]

Cut their heads off.

 

[BoyFromLA]

how do you corral them so the T can find them without burrowing??

1. I make sure tarantula is hungry, and grabs before it burrows
2. I catch it before it burrows then drop it again in front of a tarantula (then repeats)
3. Use pupated one

But on the other hand:

Poecilotheria metallica with a feeding cup / dish

I’ve been feeding from my roach colony to tarantulas for a while, and numbers of decent sized roaches are down. Thus I decided to start feeding super worms mean time to bring up the numbers as well as sizes to my roach colony. When it comes to my male Poecilotheria metallica, that is very...

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[Ultum4Spiderz]

Cut their heads off.

Yeah I think I should’ve gotten crickets so far only one spider has ate them , the rest escaped and burrower so now I have another problem on hand.
So stupid why did I get supers again , last time they all died barely fed any off.
Makes me wanna slap myself lol ..

But on the other hand:

Poecilotheria metallica with a feeding cup / dish

I’ve been feeding from my roach colony to tarantulas for a while, and numbers of decent sized roaches are down. Thus I decided to start feeding super worms mean time to bring up the numbers as well as sizes to my roach colony. When it comes to my male Poecilotheria metallica, that is very...

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Yeah I had lot of dishes like that seem to have misplaced them. I use them for water dishes . Thanks for sharing!

I tried some different containers , seem to trapped them??
The first one actually failed that spider just was hungry caught the escaped worm .

 

[vancwa]

I wait for the T to be next to a vent hole. Grab a super worm from the head with my long forceps and insert rearend into hole. The T grabs it every time.

 

[Konstantin Konstantinov]

Hi
I crush the head and drop/leave it near the tarantula or its burrow and if uneaten remove after 24h.If hungry they eat if not next time.
Crickets get best feeding response tho and I use them as my main feeders. Mainly brown but sometimes get XL black ones for my bigger and more greedy females.
Regards Konstantin

 

[DustyD]

I cut the heads off to make sure they are dead. I use superworms as a supplemental food to crickets. Also superworms can be cut up into smaller segments and given to smaller slings. Crickets can be served this way too.

For me superworms are easier to keep than crickets.

 

[LucN]

If I'm using supers, I'm only giving them to those that won't hesitate and grab them immediately. I know that it's pointless to give a super to my rosea as she very much prefers crickets. I hardly use them nowadays, crickets do the job nicely for the time being.

 

[TechnoGeek]

Do NOT leave superworms or mealworms unattended with a T, ever. Better yet, never ever feed them to a T that's not a good eater. Better leave it without food until it's hungry enough to pounce on anything or until you can get other feeders.

You could crush the head but that causes them to stop moving and might not trigger a feeding response from the T (although some of my Ts are happy to scavenge them still).

Superworms are carnivorous and will almost certainly hurt or kill your T if they catch it freshly molted or if they change into beetles. I know people who came back to an enclosure with a husk of a T and a fat insect. Don't make that mistake. If the T won't eat it right away, remove it and feed something else.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Hi
I crush the head and drop/leave it near the tarantula or its burrow and if uneaten remove after 24h.If hungry they eat if not next time.
Crickets get best feeding response tho and I use them as my main feeders. Mainly brown but sometimes get XL black ones for my bigger and more greedy females.
Regards Konstantin

Yeah I put them in little trap cups seems to worked .

Do NOT leave superworms or mealworms unattended with a T, ever. Better yet, never ever feed them to a T that's not a good eater. Better leave it without food until it's hungry enough to pounce on anything or until you can get other feeders.

You could crush the head but that causes them to stop moving and might not trigger a feeding response from the T (although some of my Ts are happy to scavenge them still).

Superworms are carnivorous and will almost certainly hurt or kill your T if they catch it freshly molted or if they change into beetles. I know people who came back to an enclosure with a husk of a T and a fat insect. Don't make that mistake. If the T won't eat it right away, remove it and feed something else.

yeah thanks I won’t let any more supers escape . Should I rehouse the T that has one hiding in its substrate ?

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I cut the heads off to make sure they are dead. I use superworms as a supplemental food to crickets. Also superworms can be cut up into smaller segments and given to smaller slings. Crickets can be served this way too.

For me superworms are easier to keep than crickets.

Why do crickets die so fast even with a water source , I gotta feed them off within a few days or they all die . So
Will this trap superworms??

 

[Jaycooks1]

+1 I always cut the heads off, only one of my girls will even touch them so I don't bother anymore crickets and roaches all day.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

+1 I always cut the heads off, only one of my girls will even touch them so I don't bother anymore crickets and roaches all day.

Yeah they definitely like cricket more and my roaches still aren’t multiplying waiting on nymphs .
Toss the stuff supers are sold with and give them fresh oatmeal oats?

 

[DustyD]

I do not know about the instant oatmeal, how much nutrients it has. Go online and look for superworms care. A lot of the breeders of these have information about what to do. I use wheat bran and veggies such as carrots, cucumbers (for added moisture) banana peels and fruit like watermelon sometimes. I am not a max gut load feeder, I just try and keep them alive.
I just cut the heads off mine and drop them near my T’s. If they are hungry they find them. They do it in the wild. If they don’t want them, try something different.
When decapitated, they don’t move much on their own. But they do move if touched. I have had them “react” to my touching them a day after I removed their heads.

The superworms can lift their bodies up somewhat so that I think the plastic you showed would not work and not needed if head is gone.
Please note, I don’t use these all the time, but with crickets and less so roaches. I too do not do well with crickets which I feed veggies, wheat bran, and fish food for protein.

 

[Matt Man]

crush their heads

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I do not know about the instant oatmeal, how much nutrients it has. Go online and look for superworms care. A lot of the breeders of these have information about what to do. I use wheat bran and veggies such as carrots, cucumbers (for added moisture) banana peels and fruit like watermelon sometimes. I am not a max gut load feeder, I just try and keep them alive.
I just cut the heads off mine and drop them near my T’s. If they are hungry they find them. They do it in the wild. If they don’t want them, try something different.
When decapitated, they don’t move much on their own. But they do move if touched. I have had them “react” to my touching them a day after I removed their heads.

The superworms can lift their bodies up somewhat so that I think the plastic you showed would not work and not needed if head is gone.
Please note, I don’t use these all the time, but with crickets and less so roaches. I too do not do well with crickets which I feed veggies, wheat bran, and fish food for protein.

Are quick oats 100% whole grain the same thing as instant oats ? They look different.

crush their heads

I can do so my Ts just seem to prefer live prey, do they wander a while after crippled ?
Paid for 50 supers no way I got that many lol I should’ve counted them .

50 more like 30 I gotta count them next time . Pet stores are always way off , one had a 50 roach count for $12 most were dead . Another sold me 10 roaches $10, I’ll go online if my roaches die out or won’t produce nymphs .

 

[DustyD]

Quick oats and instant I think are the same. The old fashioned I think have more of the nutrients. You would have to check to be sure.

 

[taranbandido]

I have never had worms.. But they gave me 2 female Madagascar cockroaches and 1 male and in 3 months I have 1 litter of about 30.. I have raised crickets from the buried egg and with fish food they shed 2 times and already mix fish food , fruit and carrot.. No problem; Dubias are even eaten in egg cups, hehe... They are well eaten with wheat bran, cheap barley...
There are those who give them feed for dogs and cats, etc, etc. Greetings...
I just saw that I have a second clutch of Madagascar roaches, pufff.. Too many for 2 Ts

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I have never had worms.. But they gave me 2 female Madagascar cockroaches and 1 male and in 3 months I have 1 litter of about 30.. I have raised crickets from the buried egg and with fish food they shed 2 times and already mix fish food , fruit and carrot.. No problem; Dubias are even eaten in egg cups, hehe... They are well eaten with wheat bran, cheap barley...
There are those who give them feed for dogs and cats, etc, etc. Greetings...
I just saw that I have a second clutch of Madagascar roaches, pufff.. Too many for 2 Ts

I made a thread for my dubia , I got female and male and added a heat pad and can’t get babies / nymphs I can’t understand it my colony did fine for years now my number in decline and it’s like they won’t produce more . Do I need to switch roach species anything slow no climbing like Dubias that do good Under 75 degrees ? Hissers are too big for my Ts unless I feed small ones .

Picky Dubias won’t eat?

See comments already on this thread: Up the temperature to around 80F. They like it warm They need warmth to breed and eat, I keep mine at 85 F using a heat pad on the side of the enclosure with a thermostat

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[Matt Man]

I can do so my Ts just seem to prefer live prey, do they wander a while after crippled ?

they still wiggle with their heads crushed. Enough to draw a strike