Hi everyone,
I'm a relatively new tarantula keeper. I own two slings. One is a B. albo and the other is a Euathlus sp. red. They're both about 1/4 inches now(albo slightly bigger) and I got them about two months ago. I put in a mealworm slice for each of them 3 days ago. This is the first time I've left the pieces in there for as long as 3 days because I had heard that the sp. red takes a while to recognize food and eat it. I can't find a trace of the mealworm slice in the sp. red' enclosure so she either ate it or buried it somewhere. In the B. albo container, it is clear that she has spun quite a bit of webbing all around the mealworm piece. I can't tell whether this means she ate most of it. Would I do well to remove the fully webbed piece or should I just leave it in there? I imagine it would be hard to remove without taking a chunk of the vermiculite it's attached to. It's surprising how thickly webbed it is. Just a ball of thick white material attached to the vermiculite. Is there any risk of infection or other health effects if I leave the webbed piece in there?
I'm a relatively new tarantula keeper. I own two slings. One is a B. albo and the other is a Euathlus sp. red. They're both about 1/4 inches now(albo slightly bigger) and I got them about two months ago. I put in a mealworm slice for each of them 3 days ago. This is the first time I've left the pieces in there for as long as 3 days because I had heard that the sp. red takes a while to recognize food and eat it. I can't find a trace of the mealworm slice in the sp. red' enclosure so she either ate it or buried it somewhere. In the B. albo container, it is clear that she has spun quite a bit of webbing all around the mealworm piece. I can't tell whether this means she ate most of it. Would I do well to remove the fully webbed piece or should I just leave it in there? I imagine it would be hard to remove without taking a chunk of the vermiculite it's attached to. It's surprising how thickly webbed it is. Just a ball of thick white material attached to the vermiculite. Is there any risk of infection or other health effects if I leave the webbed piece in there?