Poecilotheria metallica with a feeding cup / dish

[BoyFromLA]

I’ve been feeding from my roach colony to tarantulas for a while, and numbers of decent sized roaches are down. Thus I decided to start feeding super worms mean time to bring up the numbers as well as sizes to my roach colony.

When it comes to my male Poecilotheria metallica, that is very cautious, and very careful, and takes good amount of time to approach, hunt it’s prey. Super worms are not so delightful choice of feeding.

Super worms tend to burrow easily, even with it’s head crushed a bit, and if I crush it’s head too hard, then it does not attract much attention to begin with.

So I decided to try a bit different method. That is a feeding dish / cup. Nothing so special about it, it is just a little deli cup. I drop a super worm in there, and after a while, the male Poecilotheria metallica comes around and it eats it from the cup. No burrowing for a super worm, no stress for me, fun approach to a tarantula.

 

[The Spider House]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing

 

[viper69]

So you have a T that is almost a gecko!

Never thought a T would adapt to this

 

[BoyFromLA]

So you have a T that is almost a gecko!

Yeah that’s the basic idea.

Since I placed the deli cup on the webbing, even though super worms are wiggling inside the deli cup, it makes just enough trigger alarm for the tarantula to notice something is inside.

 

[viper69]

Yeah that’s the basic idea.

Since I placed the deli cup on the webbing, even though super worms are wiggling inside the deli cup, it makes just enough trigger alarm for the tarantula to notice something is inside.

Yeah, that part I figured out. However when he approaches the dish, does he nail the prey accurately, or he is grabbing around? Curious how exact the strike is. A video would be cool

 

[BoyFromLA]

Yeah, that part I figured out. However when he approaches the dish, does he nail the prey accurately, or he is grabbing around? Curious how exact the strike is. A video would be cool

It is using it’s legs, and pedipalps and scoops the worm from the dish. I’ll try to record how it is done next time to show you.

 

[viper69]

It is using it’s legs, and pedipalps and scoops the worm from the dish. I’ll try to record how it is done next time to show you.

Very cool!!