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Crickets. Sometimes mealworms. I might splurge with butterworms after a molt.
I don’t have a schedual. I feed them when i see them out of their hides: if they are always in hiding, i wait a bit.
Feeding is weekly in general. Quantity depends on size of tarantula, their age and if in premolt. Thats how i do it. I also consider size of tarantula for size of prey.
Some tarantulas have no issue tackling bigger prey then them. However, premolt can then take longer. I rather feed smaller, more frequent.
Note: i went on a trip. Fed everyone before leaving; those that would eat. I even left prekilled for the slings. Upon my return, after 10 days, two had molted. All the food had been eaten. No one died.
The feeding responses were amazing. Even my K brunnipes was out and about.
Some still had water in their bowls. Some none: they might have turned over the bowl the day i left too.
My moisture dependant enclosures were fine.
The only thing that didnt survive: the carrots in the cricket bin. All the crickets survived, or ate the dead: there were no carcasses and the numbers were similar to when i left. I was afraid i would come home to a rank smelling house: my house smelled fine.
I don’t have a schedual. I feed them when i see them out of their hides: if they are always in hiding, i wait a bit.
Feeding is weekly in general. Quantity depends on size of tarantula, their age and if in premolt. Thats how i do it. I also consider size of tarantula for size of prey.
Some tarantulas have no issue tackling bigger prey then them. However, premolt can then take longer. I rather feed smaller, more frequent.
Note: i went on a trip. Fed everyone before leaving; those that would eat. I even left prekilled for the slings. Upon my return, after 10 days, two had molted. All the food had been eaten. No one died.
The feeding responses were amazing. Even my K brunnipes was out and about.
Some still had water in their bowls. Some none: they might have turned over the bowl the day i left too.
My moisture dependant enclosures were fine.
The only thing that didnt survive: the carrots in the cricket bin. All the crickets survived, or ate the dead: there were no carcasses and the numbers were similar to when i left. I was afraid i would come home to a rank smelling house: my house smelled fine.
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tough luck for them, theres no moisture or food in there hahaha.