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<blockquote data-quote="Colorado Ts" data-source="post: 165582" data-attributes="member: 30045"><p>Small slings will scavenge for food. But as they grow they loose this desire (ability) and focus on living prey item. Once a sling gets to about 1" in size, feed living prey items. </p><p></p><p>If you only have 1 sling of a couple...small group...you can get by with keeping a small group of crickets, or meal worms are nice because they can be kept dormant in the fridge until needed. </p><p></p><p>A cricket's life cycle is about 7-8 weeks in length. You can buy medium crickets and keep them for a several weeks as they grow out and get larger. Adult crickets are at the end of their life cycle and tend to die off rather quickly. When I kept crickets I kept them in a small plastic container that I bought at WalMart for about $2.00+/-. Put in some egg crate sections for habitat and some food and water. I used beverage lids as dishes for the food, I fed flaked fish-food. Great food for crickets. For water get some Water Crystals and put only a couple of them in another dish and add water...they will expand to 400X their original volume, great way to water your crickets or other feeders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Colorado Ts, post: 165582, member: 30045"] Small slings will scavenge for food. But as they grow they loose this desire (ability) and focus on living prey item. Once a sling gets to about 1" in size, feed living prey items. If you only have 1 sling of a couple...small group...you can get by with keeping a small group of crickets, or meal worms are nice because they can be kept dormant in the fridge until needed. A cricket's life cycle is about 7-8 weeks in length. You can buy medium crickets and keep them for a several weeks as they grow out and get larger. Adult crickets are at the end of their life cycle and tend to die off rather quickly. When I kept crickets I kept them in a small plastic container that I bought at WalMart for about $2.00+/-. Put in some egg crate sections for habitat and some food and water. I used beverage lids as dishes for the food, I fed flaked fish-food. Great food for crickets. For water get some Water Crystals and put only a couple of them in another dish and add water...they will expand to 400X their original volume, great way to water your crickets or other feeders. [/QUOTE]
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