Your favorite feeders?

[Nightstalker47]

Lets hear em! Whether you enjoy watching the spiders take them down, or if they are the right fit convenience wise.

Personally, I have been buying horn worms a lot more, they are ludicrously expensive here, so I only ever buy the massive ones. My staple feeders are still crickets, super worms and mealworms.

This was the biggest in the bag, about 4" and fat. Saved it for my AF stirmi.

Immediate happy dance lol.

And a few of my others enjoying them.

 

[Vanisher]

Mice! No joking!

Mine gotta be Shelfordella lateralis! They are lively, they doesnt dig, they are good size, they are hardy and they are the only common feeder cochroach i am not allercic to! And they are pretty!

 

[Nightstalker47]

Also, as an FYI, horn worms have fairly large mouth parts and can actually bite back. Saw one of them try this only to get turned into a giant green ball lol.

 

[nicodimus22]

Dubia roaches. As my colony grows, I am becoming less dependent on crickets, which are smelly, noisy, and die at the drop of a hat.

 

[dangerforceidle]

I've actually had mixed reactions to horn worms from my tarantulas when I've bought them, so I buy them rarely now. They're a nice post-moult treat for some of the bigger Ts, however, and they're probably the largest feeder invertebrate that we can buy in Canada (maybe large earthworms?).

Best feeding response has usually been for crickets, or for wax moths when the Ts are small enough and the worms pupate.

 

[Nightstalker47]

Mice! No joking!

Mine gotta be Shelfordella lateralis! They are lively, they doesnt dig, they are good size, they are hardy and they are the only common feeder cochroach i am not allercic to! And they are pretty!

I have heard those are good, unfortunately no roaches here.

Dubia roaches. As my colony grows, I am becoming less dependent on crickets, which are smelly, noisy, and die at the drop of a hat.

I must be one of the few that doesn't have that issue, I buy a couple hundred and they last weeks. Its key to not overcrowd them, I use a 10 gallon aquarium with lots of egg crates, and always make sure they have fresh food available.

 

[korg]

Superworms all the way. And I use crickets sometimes for smaller slings and juvies.

Do hornworms leave a nasty bolus at all? I've thought about using them to fatten up some of my females but my experiences with thawed pinky mice have given me pause about whether it's worth it.

 

[Vanisher]

Dubia roaches. As my colony grows, I am becoming less dependent on crickets, which are smelly, noisy, and die at the drop of a hat.

Good gracious! They are terrible for me! I got really ill when i use to have a colony of those!

I sometimes digs up some sort of large beetle larva from my fathers compost in the autums! Those have the same size as hornworms but are white and plumper! I give them as a treat!

 

[Nightstalker47]

I sometimes digs up some sort of large beetle larva from my fathers compost in the autums! Those have the same size as hornworms but are white and plumper! I give them as a treat!

I think those grubs are sold as feeders in the UK, would love to get my hands on some of them and the large locusts as well.

Superworms all the way. And I use crickets sometimes for smaller slings and juvies.

Do hornworms leave a nasty bolus at all? I've thought about using them to fatten up some of my females but my experiences with thawed pinky mice have given me pause about whether it's worth it.

No bolus that I could see, they do tend to poop themselves when they are fed though. Im talking a load of crap roughly the size of an adult cricket, its gross.

 

[antinous]

Currently meal and superworms as they’re easy to store for long periods. Plan to use hornworms, and the moths they turn into as I’m curious to how crazy they’ll go for them, once my spiders get larger.

 

[Liquifin]

I use different feeders for different size T.'s, Here's what I use regularly:
Mealworms- Great for slings until they pass the 1.5''-2''
B. Lats- Great for everything
B. dubia- Best for adults
Superworms- best for whatever needs fattening. Basically my spare feeders.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

S. lateralis - Tarantulas go crazy for them

 

[Nightstalker47]

Plan to use hornworms, and the moths they turn into as I’m curious to how crazy they’ll go for them, once my spiders get larger.

From what I hear, you need to expose them to light to avoid periods of dormancy or they can take a while from the pupae stage to actually turn into a moth. Silkworms on the other hand are easier, just stop feeding once they are a good size and they are moths in something like three weeks.

 

[Venom1080]

Mealworms. Breed my own. They do everything. I just throw apple cores in here and there.

Supers. Staple feeders for my largest spiders. Had to get pretty good at tong feeding giant pokies with these..

Crickets. Great all around.

 

[Andrea82]

S.lateralis and locusts. A mealie now and then. When my poecies grow up I'll start feeding supers again but they have a smell on them that does not compute with my system very well
When the locusts aren't available I feed crickets. Nasty buggers. My husband hates them and always suggests extra feedings to get rid of the males asap because of their chirp, lol.
When I get flies for my mantids I always let some loose in my pokies' and Avicularia enclosures.
The speed with which those get taken down is insane!

 

[Paul1126]

Mealworms easy to care for

 

[antinous]

From what I hear, you need to expose them to light to avoid periods of dormancy or they can take a while from the pupae stage to actually turn into a moth. Silkworms on the other hand are easier, just stop feeding once they are a good size and they are moths in something like three weeks.

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll probably put them by a window or near my hot pepper plants (have lights for them on for 12 hours a day). Wish silkworms were larger. Don’t think a full grown Pampho or Phormic would bat an eye at them.

 

[Nightstalker47]

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll probably put them by a window or near my hot pepper plants (have lights for them on for 12 hours a day). Wish silkworms were larger. Don’t think a full grown Pampho or Phormic would bat an eye at them.

Happy to help. The larvae's actually get pretty big, I wouldn't waste a moth on a terrestrial though, kind of defeats the purpose.

You really need to get yourself some poeci's.

 

[Vanisher]

I have heard those are good, unfortunately no roaches here.

I must be one of the few that doesn't have that issue, I buy a couple hundred and they last weeks. Its key to not overcrowd them, I use a 10 gallon aquarium with lots of egg crates, and always make sure they have fresh food available.

Well Nightstalker, just come visit my fathers compost this autumn i am sure we can work something out!?

Happy to help. The larvae's actually get pretty big, I wouldn't waste a moth on a terrestrial though, kind of defeats the purpose.

You really need to get yourself some poeci's.

Beutiful spiders! P subfusca is my favourit of the genus i think?

 

[nicodimus22]

Good gracious! They are terrible for me! I got really ill when i use to have a colony of those!

Ill? Explain.