Sling food (part 500 I'm sure)

[Vys]

So what can I feed my tiny tiny arboreal slings? I've got two, and apparantly cockroach-legs are disgusting, both to me and to them. So what else is there? Tiny cricks? They die faster than you..well, they die fast for various reasons. Could be an option though.

Maggots? They dig, I presume, and as such would have to be danlged in front of the hopefully very hungry sling? Also, are they small enough for a tiny sling to take?

Tiny mealworms? If I can find baby ones, they still dig, yeah?

Flies? Flies actually seem viable, I think. Perhaps wingless fruitflies or something? (It's amazing what they do with fruitflies )


Hacked-up bodyparts? Never (again).

Halfly-mutilated living things? Never.

 

[Code Monkey]

Flightless fruit flies are readily eaten but come with the standard "don't feed just fruit flies for more than a month or two" caution against potential nutritional deficiency.

Small crickets work well because they don't burrow at all and are easily detected.

But you're missing the obvious: chunks of roach/cricket. Take a small roach, quarter or eighth it as needed and you've got food for all the slings you could want. Roach legs are as nutritous as cricket front legs, that is 'not very'.

 

[belewfripp]

To make it a little less messy, freeze the crickets for about an hour or so and then divide them. I usually just break off the hind legs to feed the smaller slings and then break the cricket in half to feed to the larger ones. Works well.

Adrian

 

[Vys]

Thanks CM, I didn't think they'd be kan-jang exactly, but now I know then.

Maggots , are they more nutritious, and readily accepted?

And I did say

Originally posted by Vys


Hacked-up bodyparts? Never (again).

Belew : I don't think I want to freeze anything to death again. This one roach I tried it with had shat in the little bag, in throes of death no doubt, and gods I don't like it.

 

[rorika]

hmmm for me i feed em chopped up mealworms.. mealworms seems fine to me. for me i just place a mealworm in a freezer for 5 mins or so and cut em up. by doing this the juices don't "shoot" out like the live ones do and the precious juices could be sucked up by the slings..

 

[Code Monkey]

Maggots should be fine, as aren't termite workers if you can get ahold of them from a non-treated area. Both, though, will burrow into substrate.

Chunks of bug are really your best bet for economically feeding tiny slings, though. You might just have to get a spine and embrace insect dismemberment; your kids will appreciate those homecooked meals prepared with love

 

[Vys]

Getting such a 'spine' I'd die in the mainstream
But anyways, I shall try both maggots and small crickets, I think! Moths would be good, but waxworms suck.

Termites...hmm..don't think there are any herearound at all.

 

[Vys]

Hmm, I guess I might try cutting up the one cockroach I have already frozen, as those legs certainly don't seem to be edible at all
Do you think though that they will be more inclined to eat a juicy piece of cockroach stomach than leg?

My 'Cobalt Redrump' won't have anything to do with any roach either (only thing I've got atm) and my dear stupid parahybana Potato didn't notice it as I happened to drop it an inch away from her as opposed to on her. Won't comment on my grown Avic as I think she's started to live on cork-bark, but whatever.
Not a good day for feeding.

 

[chuck]

i just pull the heads and back legs off the crickets and place it near my sligs tunnel. he doesnt eat it all but he sure is fat.

 

[Vys]

Nice to know for sure. Don't ever get a cat.

 

[Immortal_sin]

Originally posted by Vys
Hmm, I guess I might try cutting up the one cockroach I have already frozen, as those legs certainly don't seem to be edible at all
Do you think though that they will be more inclined to eat a juicy piece of cockroach stomach than leg?

My 'Cobalt Redrump' won't have anything to do with any roach either (only thing I've got atm) and my dear stupid parahybana Potato didn't notice it as I happened to drop it an inch away from her as opposed to on her. Won't comment on my grown Avic as I think she's started to live on cork-bark, but whatever.
Not a good day for feeding.

speaking of Potato...where is she?
did you catch her, or is she still living behind the wardrobe?!

 

[Vys]

Nah, I caught the little miscreant. Had one hell of a row with that wardrobe too - it's kind of leaning at a weird angle now
Thought maybe I'd scared her half from herself or squashed her, but thereunder she was, fat and uncooperative.

 

[Nixy]

Im so glad you got your Tater back!
As fpr feeding slings.
Chopping can be messy and for a good many understandably nauseating.
What I have found Honestly is a pair of sharp sissors work best. I got the twins a pair of small hair cutting sissars and I hand them each a meal worm. A few quick snips over the vial and dinner is served. No muss no fuss no worm parts oozing and sludging because the cut is fast and clean.
So it's a job the five year olds can do without alot of EEEEEWWWWW!! Bug guts!
Though in all honestly chopping doesn't bother them anymore either.

I also don;t bother to chop so small anymore. a worm or cricket in quarters is find, tiny ones trundle up and munch and the left overs are easy enough to pick out with a pair of tweezers.
And you would be surprised how Little left overs are left over form those tiny eating machines.

Good luck hon.