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[Chris LXXIX]

I just love having pet holes!

Bravo/a! Then the logical choice is a Goddess 0.1 Pelinobius muticus PBUH -- Peace Be Upon Her (™)
without further doubts

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Well, if the OP likes to look at a hole in the substrate..

False. That's a myth and nothing else u_u

While the Goddess is out in the open rarely, those very few moments you can spot Her is like for Indhu people the joy of see the Gange river gently flowing on Varanasi, or the Vltava viewed from lovely Malá Strana.

It's a blessing, basically, to have the honor to view Her when she decide that.

Are you worth of that, uhm? That's the question, by Jove :-s

 

[ledzeppelin]

Bravo/a! Then the logical choice is a Goddess 0.1 Pelinobius muticus PBUH -- Peace Be Upon Her (™)
without further doubts

Chris you trully are humbled by the species aren't you ?

 

[Graves6661]

Hehe I cannot wait for mine to get here! What do you feed yours?

I feed my genic dubia roaches once a week. If the roach is under an inch in size I feed twice per week. I also mix it up and will drop a mealworm or superworm in every now and then.

 

[mistertim]

I love my genic. It's a 2.5-3 inch juvie and is basically a tarantula shaped cricket vacuum. Just make sure you keep your hands out of the enclosure. Not because they're mean but because they act like every single thing that moves is automatically food until it conclusively determines otherwise. Mine attacks and tries to eat everything...tongs when cleaning, water dish when refilling. It's actually pretty hilarious.

 

[Shelby Schulze]

What is a good place to order micro crickets from?..

 

[Shelby Schulze]

I also called the pet Co by my house to see what they have and apparently they've been feeding their Ts wingless fruit flies. Would you guys suggest on getting any of those till the sling I'm getting is bigger?

 

[Crone Returns]

I also called the pet Co by my house to see what they have and apparently they've been feeding their Ts wingless fruit flies. Would you guys suggest on getting any of those till the sling I'm getting is bigger?

No. According to the old timers here, fruit flies have zero nutrition.
Use small crickets. Put your crickets in a small kritter keeper (6$ at walmart) Put romaine lettuce or carrot bits and a slice of potatoe and let them eat for a night. The next day either cut up the cricket and feed the sling cricket parts. You can also use meal worms, small.

 

[Shelby Schulze]

No. According to the old timers here, fruit flies have zero nutrition.
Use small crickets. Put your crickets in a small kritter keeper (6$ at walmart) Put romaine lettuce or carrot bits and a slice of potatoe and let them eat for a night. The next day either cut up the cricket and feed the sling cricket parts. You can also use meal worms, small.

Alright! I do have a small enclosure that I use to have a hermit crab in. Would that work at all and should I get the crickets from my local pet store or pet co?

 

[Crone Returns]

Alright! I do have a small enclosure that I use to have a hermit crab in. Would that work at all and should I get the crickets from my local pet store or pet co?

Yes get the crickets from a local pet shop. Do NOT listen to any of their suggestions. Listen to people here. Pet shops will sell you everything wrong.

 

[Shelby Schulze]

Yes get the crickets from a local pet shop. Do NOT listen to any of their suggestions. Listen to people here. Pet shops will sell you everything wrong.

Alright. Thank you so much for the help.

 

[Olan]

What is a good place to order micro crickets from?..

Just feed slings prekilled crickets. It's much easier than trying to deal with little prey items, and it gets the slings to molt very quickly.

 

[cold blood]

You've gotten me hooked on A. geniculata. I'm going to be placing my order for one in the next two weeks after I get a set up for the sling.

Get set up? A spoonful of sub in a condiment cup with a few pinholes around the side and one or two on the lid and you are set. once it molts a few times, move it to a 16oz deli cup, at this point you can offer a water dish as there will be room.

Awesome! That will be perfect for when I get an Avicularia next year! The sling I'm looking to get is 1/4 in. Would this be a good set up for it? http://www.net-bug.net/apps/webstore/products/show/3284012

That's nothing more than a waste of $10. I'd take a deli cup 100 times out of 100.

Parahybanas also get biiiiiiiig

So do lots and lots of south Americans...and the parayabana is the least interesting looking of them all. I always tell people, NEVER buy an LP, eventually you will get one or many for free. I mean, they're cool enough ts, but for the $, every single large NW is better IMO as they all share that faster growth and massive appetite. Comparing a genic to an LP is like comparing an old Camaro to a Maserati.

I'm going to be ordering the enclosure for the sling I have picked out, wait for it to get here and then order the sling from Pet Center USA. Thank you guys for all your help. Does anybody have a good guide for the Brazilian White Knees? I spent 3 hours doing research on them. I just want some more info.

Basically all terrestrials (not from Africa) can be kept the same....which is on moist, but not wet, substrate. People do all this "research" finding out how to care for individual slings, when they're all basically kept the same. Its a classic example of the poor availability of quality information on the web and in care sheets.

What is a good place to order micro crickets from?..

Don't, any pet store, or bait shop for that matter, will have ample feeder options. Mealworms can be bought cheaply and kept in the fridge, and mealworm pieces are one of my favorite things to feed slings. Wax worms are another option. And of you can't find small enough crickets, just give a half a cricket or a dead one like Olan suggested....for really small slings, even just a cricket leg will suffice.

I also called the pet Co by my house to see what they have and apparently they've been feeding their Ts wingless fruit flies. Would you guys suggest on getting any of those till the sling I'm getting is bigger?

Yes, fruit flies are nutritionally deficient, and worse than that, a total pain in the booty to deal with. Don't be talked into using fruit flies.

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

So do lots and lots of south Americans...and the parayabana is the least interesting looking of them all. I always tell people, NEVER buy an LP, eventually you will get one or many for free. I mean, they're cool enough ts, but for the $, every single large NW is better IMO as they all share that faster growth and massive appetite. Comparing a genic to an LP is like comparing an old Camaro to a Maserati.

I agree mostly, but I think L.P.s are quite interesting and attractive. Not AS attractive as a genic of course, but certainly not something I'd pass on. And if I were in the market for one, I'd pay the low price they are offered for if I was unable to get one as a freebie. If I were the OP, I'd see if LPs were offered as for free with the purchase. They'd then have TWO big ones, a Camaro and a Maserati.

Mealworms can be bought cheaply and kept in the fridge, and mealworm pieces are one of my favorite things to feed slings. Wax worms are another option. And of you can't find small enough crickets, just give a half a cricket or a dead one like Olan suggested....for really small slings, even just a cricket leg will suffice.

Mealworm pieces worked great when I got my slings. I found them slightly easier to chop up than crickets. Once I found out how readily they accepted the chunks of mealworms, I didn't even bother with crickets until the slings moulted a few times and put on a little size. I still feed mealies now and then. My LP will eat superworms at this point. But I offer them infrequently as well. I'm going to try B. lateralis as soon as the group I have gets established and breeding.

When your genic gets a little bigger, be careful with the tongs too. Because the first few times they tackle the tongs, your likely reaction is to flinch. Tarantulas fly well enough, but only for a short distance and they really suck at landings. Never had that happen with my genic, but my E. campestratus, whom the genic doesn't have a thing over when it comes to feeding response, did go airbourne. Twice. Both times for a safe landing, but it could have been a disaster. I think it was because I'd never read of an E. camp being particularly food aggressive. I expected such behaviour from my genic and LP. Come to think of it, that E. camp hit things harder than either of those two, really.

 

[mistertim]

Just feed slings prekilled crickets. It's much easier than trying to deal with little prey items, and it gets the slings to molt very quickly.

This is exactly what I do as well with small slings. Just get some small crickets from a LPS and prekill them and the large size of the meals will fatten them up quick. Slings will pretty much always scavenge as they'd have to do plenty of that in the wild since they're so small.

 

[cold blood]

I agree mostly, but I think L.P.s are quite interesting and attractive. Not AS attractive as a genic of course, but certainly not something I'd pass on..

I didn't say there were uninteresting or ugly, I said exactly what you said, that others are just better looking. I also didn't say to pass, I said to wait, because in time you can almost gaurantee you'll get one as a freebie with another future purchase. I avoid the genus like the plague, yet still have 3 different Lasiodora species that I received as freebies. There's no avoiding them, so why make them the target of your desires. I see it like a dandelion...even though nobody intends to have them, eventually everybody ends up with at least a few of them....they're virtually unavoidable.

Tim, that may have been one of the few posts I've read from you that didn't make me laugh. Very informative my friend I'm also a fan of mealies for slings in a big way.

 

[Crone Returns]

I didn't say there were uninteresting or ugly, I said exactly what you said, that others are just better looking. I also didn't say to pass, I said to wait, because in time you can almost gaurantee you'll get one as a freebie with another future purchase. I avoid the genus like the plague, yet still have 3 different Lasiodora species that I received as freebies. There's no avoiding them, so why make them the target of your desires. I see it like a dandelion...even though nobody intends to have them, eventually everybody ends up with at least a few of them....they're virtually unavoidable.

Tim, that may have been one of the few posts I've read from you that didn't make me laugh. Very informative my friend I'm also a fan of mealies for slings in a big way.

Yeah they'll chow down the meal worm, then go into molt 2 days after you get them and STILL hasn't come out

 

[Olan]

I agree mostly, but I think L.P.s are quite interesting and attractive. Not AS attractive as a genic of course, but certainly not something I'd pass on. And if I were in the market for one, I'd pay the low price they are offered for if I was unable to get one as a freebie. If I were the OP, I'd see if LPs were offered as for free with the purchase. They'd then have TWO big ones, a Camaro and a Maserati.




Mealworm pieces worked great when I got my slings. I found them slightly easier to chop up than crickets. Once I found out how readily they accepted the chunks of mealworms, I didn't even bother with crickets until the slings moulted a few times and put on a little size. I still feed mealies now and then. My LP will eat superworms at this point. But I offer them infrequently as well. I'm going to try B. lateralis as soon as the group I have gets established and breeding.

When your genic gets a little bigger, be careful with the tongs too. Because the first few times they tackle the tongs, your likely reaction is to flinch. Tarantulas fly well enough, but only for a short distance and they really suck at landings. Never had that happen with my genic, but my E. campestratus, whom the genic doesn't have a thing over when it comes to feeding response, did go airbourne. Twice. Both times for a safe landing, but it could have been a disaster. I think it was because I'd never read of an E. camp being particularly food aggressive. I expected such behaviour from my genic and LP. Come to think of it, that E. camp hit things harder than either of those two, really.

My E. Campestratus went airborne too! Launched out of her burrow at the tongs and I flinched. She was fine, very small at the time.

 

[Shelby Schulze]

Alrighty! Since I already have an enclosure for the sling what substrate would you guys suggest and am I able to use fake plants from someplace like Walmart or should I order ones that are specifically for Ts?

Edit: I was looking at getting this... https://www.amazon.com/Caribsea-Coco-Fiber-Bricks-8-Quart/dp/B00KVL2QUK/ref=sr_1_3?rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1480648511&sr=8-3&keywords=coco+fiber+bedding&refinements=p_85:2470955011

Edit #2: This is the enclosure I currently have.. Pardon it being dusty as it's sat around since my hermit crab died. Would you guys suggest using this as the enclosure or are the holes in the top too big?

 

[cold blood]

That will NOT work. First, its still unbelievably large for a sling, on top of that, the general rule with Kritter Keepers is 1.75" MINIMUM. A sling will walk right out of that.

USE A 16oz DELI CUP. The smaller condiment cups you see in front are great for anything under 3/4".