Travis21v4
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Tried to feed slings baby dubias for the first time and pretty much had to feed each 1 a dead dubia baby because little punks burrow. How do yall do it?
crush their heads first....same drill for superworms and mealworms.
Even my heavy webber psalmos who get food on their web i crush heads.. Iv crushed males heads and droped them down the main shaft only to find them on the other side of the cage later strictly from leg twitchings (head cut in 2 and no burrowing) Better safe then sorry and i dont want it to burrowThank you loves! Trying to give my babies some different types of food so they dont get bored lol
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What about feeding these to baby versis. If they chill at the top should i just
Place the dubia in the web?
haha. Exactly. I grip em up with tweezers and drop em in, and they lay still and play dead.Just because it hasn't been mentioned - dubias play dead for quite a long time, and personally, I like to watch the takedown. Even for my adults, I crush the head so they keep kicking!
EDIT: Unless I'm feeding a mature male dubia. Those guys are runners and don't hold still very long.
This is a huge reason why I went away from lobsters. That, and they "look" more like roaches - I still despise roaches, quite honestly. Makes my skin crawl every time I have to catch one.I should add that the major downside to Lobsters is that they are faster than Dubias and able to climb smooth surfaces, so escape attempts are slightly more of an issue.
I despise crickets on the whole. They're convenient when you've only got a few tarantulas, but when you're in bulk, it's just not practical. From the (just under) 40 T's I've owned, not a single one refused to eat a dubia in the long run. Yes, there were a few that didn't want them at first, but an animal won't starve itself. The longest stalemate I had was with a juvie B. albopilosum over the course of two months. She eventually gave in and took down a dubia, and I haven't had an issue since. They all eventually eat one, even if I have to prekill it.I personally prefer Cricket's for Avicularia Sp. Sling's
Did the spider ever get the beetle?I once had a superworm get away from me and burrow down before I could retrieve it. Made it's way down under the tarantula's burrow and ended up against the enclosure wall, where I watched it transform into a beetle over the next week or two. Neat experience but that's when I learned to crush the head of anything other than crickets.
I was raising a curly hair sling for my bf she was doing so well... then when he started taking care of it we had a few of the meal worm beetles. He tried to feed her that despite my warning. He was like “it can handle it.” The next day her legs were ripped off and the poor sling was dead. No it couldn’t fight that tank, I was upset lol because she had molted 3 times since I had taken care of it and the curly hair was doing so well. RipDid the spider ever get the beetle?
It's odd, but I've heard an increasing number of people lately say "yeah all of mine refuse to eat dubia roaches." No they don't. Tarantulas are opportunistic animals. They don't know when or if more food is coming, so they grab what they can when they can (assuming that they're not full or in heavy premolt.) They will absolutely eat dubia if nothing else is available, and that's good because well-kept dubia are an excellent food source. I haven't had crickets in about 5 years. Guess what 100% of my tarantulas eat?From the (just under) 40 T's I've owned, not a single one refused to eat a dubia in the long run. Yes, there were a few that didn't want them at first, but an animal won't starve itself. The longest stalemate I had was with a juvie B. albopilosum over the course of two months. She eventually gave in and took down a dubia, and I haven't had an issue since. They all eventually eat one, even if I have to prekill it.