versicolor questions?

[TheWidowsPeak]

ok I just got a 1/2 inch versi sling. I was wondering if anyone has had them eat prekilled crickets. if not what size crickets would be safe to give it, also would a mealworm be too big? and I don't really have access to pinheads, just 1/4 inch crix

 

[vulpina]

Try the 1/4" crickets, just watch and make sure it eats the cricket.

Andy

 

[pelo]

I had slings that size eat 1/4" crickets live and dead.With the live ones though I pop off the jumping legs.Makes the cricket a little less intimidating and easier to catch,hold and eat.It also depends on the individual sling.Some are aggressive and will take live crickets larger than themselves while others are extremely skittish to any movement or live crickets.Try both ways.If it's hungry enough it'll take it one way or the other.I'd try prekilled first though.Give the cricket a little squish..get the juices flowing....peace..

 

[Godzilla2000]

Originally posted by johnnyjohnjon
ok I just got a 1/2 inch versi sling. I was wondering if anyone has had them eat prekilled crickets. if not what size crickets would be safe to give it, also would a mealworm be too big? and I don't really have access to pinheads, just 1/4 inch crix

Well I for one freeze a few crickets to death that are slightly larger than my smaller slings if I don't have 1/4 crickets. If the slings are hungry they will feed off of larger dead crickets. I then dispose of what wasn't consumed. Which reminds me......

 

[nemesis6sic6]

hey

Its ok if your slings eat dead crix. what you do IMO is just throw it directly at them. I've done this when I accidently kill a crik and i don't want to waste them. so just throw the crik at the sling directly and it will take it. any ways have a nice day
geo

 

[Valael]

Just break the legs off of larger crickets and give the rest of the cricket to a full grown T.



(I mean give the legs to the slings.)


They suck the inside out of the legs. They don't get as much food out of it, but you always have twice as many legs as you do crickets. And if you have larger spiders to feed, it works out great.

 

[D-Man]

When my slings were specks, I pulled the legs off of micro or medium cric's and smashed their heads. The little slings would hop on and suck away - I would end up with a partial cric, not a bolus. My smithi slings were little monsters, so I got to the point where I only pulle off the legs and let them commit the crime.

BTW, did your A. avic molt into a female???

Dario

 

[TheDon]

My 1/2" Versi was a cricket murderer! Any cricket I tossed in would last about 10 secs. I would feed her both pinheads and 1/4" crickets. They will eat surprisingly big crickets for their size. As someone else said just watch and make sure the versi eats it before you leave or you may have the cricket eat the poor little guy. Even my 1/4" Brazilian Salmon was a cricket murderer, I would toss a pinhead in and it would be bouncin all around and then BAM no more bouncing. Was very surprised considering the sling was so tiny.

good luck

TheDon

 

[Code Monkey]

Slings can take "surprisingly" big prey. A 1/2" versi sling will have no problem dispatching 1/4" crickets. The sling has leverage and venom working on its side.

Once you know the boldness factor of any particular sling, you can often get away with the 'one really big meal' approach and feed it a bug almost as big as it is and marvel at it wrangling down the prey and swelling like a baloon

I've got two new versi slings since the last one I raised turned out to be a male. They are very small, and very bold at hunting.

 

[Nexus]

They can manage mealworms as well. They are so wriggly that it ends up looking like some kind of wrestling match.

 

[TheWidowsPeak]

ok it is eating prekilled crickets, and my geniculata has been eating his dead cricket for allmost 24 hours now, and my avicularia avicularia still hasn't molted it has been in its little web retreat for a little over a month and is still refusing food so I think any day now I'll keep you posted.