Help!!! Emergency!

[SalticusScenicusStar]

So my Wolf Spider slings are now getting hungry, and some started cannibalizing. I tried separating some, but so many of them are in the mother wolf spider's enclosure that it's so hard to get them out. I bought Melanogaster fruit fly cultures to provide them with food, but the slings are so small that the fruit flies are twice their size!!! Some died of starvation! What should I do? I even gave them dead flies and dead fly guts! None worked!!! What should I do? What should I feed them?

 

[Nicole C G]

So my Wolf Spider slings are now getting hungry, and some started cannibalizing. I tried separating some, but so many of them are in the mother wolf spider's enclosure that it's so hard to get them out. I bought Melanogaster fruit fly cultures to provide them with food, but the slings are so small that the fruit flies are twice their size!!! Some died of starvation! What should I do? I even gave them dead flies and dead fly guts! None worked!!! What should I do? What should I feed them?

Go outside, flip over rocks. There may be springtails that might be small enough. But keep in mind I don’t know wolf spiders well

 

[Poonjab]

Chew up food and spit it out into the enclosure. Feed them like a mama spider would.

 

[ForTW]

Springtails, plant louse (free to pickup outside) or let the stongest survive.

Next time, be prepared.

Regards

 

[CRX]

Its normal for them to cannibalize each other. Let it happen.

 

[chanda]

If they are a native species where you live, you could release a bunch of excess slings outside and let them find food for themselves.

 

[SalticusScenicusStar]

Thank you all for your advice.

 

[SalticusScenicusStar]

I didn't want them to eat each other though, I didn't want to watch them suffer for my unpreparedness. I killed many Melanogaster fruit flies and lied them around the enclosure. Do you think this will work? So far, they haven't touched it.

 

[Poonjab]

I didn't want them to eat each other though, I didn't want to watch them suffer for my unpreparedness. I killed many Melanogaster fruit flies and lied them around the enclosure. Do you think this will work? So far, they haven't touched it.

No. They will only take pre-chewed crickets or mealworms in this scenario.