Feeding Ts

[TuttiFruttiBigBooty]

Hi!!

when you have a T that has sealed its burrowed, do you still offer food?

 

[Tarantuland]

Depends on the species and size of the T, if it's a sling I'd do prekilled and remove the next day if it wasn't eaten

 

[mack1855]

If totally sealed up,then I do not.
Sealed up is the key word,IMO.
In its burrow with the opening still there,that’s different.

 

[Arachnophobphile]

Hi!!

when you have a T that has sealed its burrowed, do you still offer food?

love the user name

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

No my last one who did this was in premolt already refused food beforehand.

 

[Tentacle Toast]

I read sealed as "do NOT disturb" when I kept terrestrials. They thanked me for my discretion, in their own spidy ways.

 

[viper69]

Hi!!

when you have a T that has sealed its burrowed, do you still offer food?

No

 

[TuttiFruttiBigBooty]

I read sealed as "do NOT disturb" when I kept terrestrials. They thanked me for my discretion, in their own spidy ways.

Ha - I like that. I just have a 1 inch sling g. Pulchripes who has sealed their burrow for ~ two weeks and I’m feeling anxious. I can see him move in the burrow (it’s right next to the clear wall of enclosure). Glad to hear I shouldn’t worry lol

 

[0viWan]

I've had most of my slings on and off do the I-don't-care-about-your-world-Ima-just-sit-in-my-sealed-off-hole kinda thing. I respect that and leave them alone. What kind of surprises me though is when they don't care to emerge even a while after their recent molt. I've read in some other thread, that in those cases some keepers just drop crickets into the box of dirt. Tried that twice some 1,5 weeks after a molt (which I was able to confirm through the enclosure sidewall) and both times within a few hours the slings opened a little hole to grab the cricket. They then proceeded to properly open up their burrows.