I’m new to T’s and can’t answer your ?s, but reading everything I can about the care for slings because it’s challenging, and
I have to 2 h. orellanai slings about 1/2“ I’ve had since last week. I’ve read the care for them is like for h. chilense.
Just for reference, the place I ordered from recommended a 50 dram vile and I ordered those with the slings, they can with substrate, moss and fake plant. The vile has ventilation holes on the sides and the flip lid is full of ventilation holes.
So far ours haven’t tried climbing up the sides of the vile. They have lots of places to hide though as I put lots of the moss in it. 1 in particular wanders throughout the 2x2 enclosure, but seems to have made hides within the moss and sometimes I can’t see it. The other has a burrow down the side of the vile where it often is, but it comes up too.
They each carried off pieces of a mealworm and were eating those for almost a day, I wanted to get it them out second day but can’t get to the one down in the burrow and the other I don’t see since it carried it into the moss.
I’ve misted the sides 3 times, the first 2 days since I thought they could be dehydrated and then a few days ago. They seem to be doing well.
Only sharing what slings of a similar species are doing here, for what it’s worth.
Stephen
I have to 2 h. orellanai slings about 1/2“ I’ve had since last week. I’ve read the care for them is like for h. chilense.
Just for reference, the place I ordered from recommended a 50 dram vile and I ordered those with the slings, they can with substrate, moss and fake plant. The vile has ventilation holes on the sides and the flip lid is full of ventilation holes.
So far ours haven’t tried climbing up the sides of the vile. They have lots of places to hide though as I put lots of the moss in it. 1 in particular wanders throughout the 2x2 enclosure, but seems to have made hides within the moss and sometimes I can’t see it. The other has a burrow down the side of the vile where it often is, but it comes up too.
They each carried off pieces of a mealworm and were eating those for almost a day, I wanted to get it them out second day but can’t get to the one down in the burrow and the other I don’t see since it carried it into the moss.
I’ve misted the sides 3 times, the first 2 days since I thought they could be dehydrated and then a few days ago. They seem to be doing well.
Only sharing what slings of a similar species are doing here, for what it’s worth.
Stephen
