Ive been giving pre killed and portioned orange head roaches to some of my spiders.
So far king baboons, haitian browns and megaphobema robustum have taken them.
i try to feed the oldest looking roaches to my t's first, i do this as im assuming they are the least potentially fecund of the adults and would die soonest anyway, they are still quite a handful for a sub adult king baboon though and potentially could damage the spider with those flailing spiny legs. To reduce the chance of injury i simply crush the roach head quickly and then disable the legs by making a cut into thorax. i pop the body in the tank and within minutes the spider will usually have it.
last year my roach colony was short of small instars, i was keeping them a bit to dry (now recitified with a simple cup of water in the corner of the tank) and losing the new hatchlings. anyway i was wondering how to feed my spiderlings, a simple roach portion worked fine, seems its more sense to feed 4 spliderlings a 1/4 old roach each than feed many small ones to them from a livefood colony standpoint (i suppose one has to manage a live food colony rather like any harvested set of animals!)
its funny but a decade years ago i'd have told people that T's must have live food, never even thinking that i'd try a very simple experiment to verify it!!
anyway the 'useful tips' are that this method reduces the chance of injury and allows you to feed s'lings even with big feeders, oh and of coure it can work out far more economical esp when you can pay per cricket from a petshop (a single adult cricket can be a 100 times the mass of a tiny baby, talk about poor value for money)
So far king baboons, haitian browns and megaphobema robustum have taken them.
i try to feed the oldest looking roaches to my t's first, i do this as im assuming they are the least potentially fecund of the adults and would die soonest anyway, they are still quite a handful for a sub adult king baboon though and potentially could damage the spider with those flailing spiny legs. To reduce the chance of injury i simply crush the roach head quickly and then disable the legs by making a cut into thorax. i pop the body in the tank and within minutes the spider will usually have it.
last year my roach colony was short of small instars, i was keeping them a bit to dry (now recitified with a simple cup of water in the corner of the tank) and losing the new hatchlings. anyway i was wondering how to feed my spiderlings, a simple roach portion worked fine, seems its more sense to feed 4 spliderlings a 1/4 old roach each than feed many small ones to them from a livefood colony standpoint (i suppose one has to manage a live food colony rather like any harvested set of animals!)
its funny but a decade years ago i'd have told people that T's must have live food, never even thinking that i'd try a very simple experiment to verify it!!
anyway the 'useful tips' are that this method reduces the chance of injury and allows you to feed s'lings even with big feeders, oh and of coure it can work out far more economical esp when you can pay per cricket from a petshop (a single adult cricket can be a 100 times the mass of a tiny baby, talk about poor value for money)
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