Hi Hemolymph!No, not all tarantulas can eat just super worms. You can’t get many old world tarantulas to take them. @PanzoN88 doesnt have many old worlds at all. Pre killing them is not always a option for lager Ts. Tossing them in to a pet hole old world they will bury themselves and you won’t know if they ate it or not. And if your spider is young you increase the risk for it to be killed. Large terrestrial spiders like T. stirmi need a larger meal then a little worm. Roaches would be a better safer feeder for old world spiders.
Feeding a mouse pinkie to a grown geniculata should be fun.@Hemolymph has a point what I did not think through. Big spiders like T. stirmi would need bigger prey than just superworms - Mouse pinkies, large roaches and occasional hornworms should do.
For old world burrowers, I guess the time will show. If you get to lure them out to snatch the worm or crush their head and leave next to the burrow entrance, you'll learn if your Ts do accept them or not.
But otherwise I see no problem in starting with superworms and mealworms and observing if they work with individual Ts or not.
Rectifying that soon. Got my eyes on a few more OWs now.@PanzoN88 doesnt have many old worlds at all.
Rectifying that soon. Got my eyes on a few more OWs now.
@Silly If you do decide to feed off pinkies to a tarantula, I would only feed frozen thawed because the chances are that a live mouse isn't going to go down without doing a little damage of its own.
I feed my spiders hissers. So does @Arachnoclown , I know this cause I buy them for him.my Ts love superworms, but i like to mix it and give them crickets. is any one feeding hissing roaches havent heard much of the hissing roaches?
Lol I remember reading your thread a while back and you had the opposite collection of mine. I have all old world ,scorpions and pedes. I only own one new world, Psalmopeus irminia.Rectifying that soon. Got my eyes on a few more OWs now.
@Silly If you do decide to feed off pinkies to a tarantula, I would only feed frozen thawed because the chances are that a live mouse isn't going to go down without doing a little damage of its own.
But next feeding should be interesting as I got some freeze dried dubia roaches to try.
I'm not sure if freeze dried insects are good for tarantula as they don't chew their food but use their sucking stomach to suck the liquids. Yes, their venom will probably liquidize the remains of freeze dried feeder, but the overall nutritional value if probably greatly smaller than with fresh ones.
No, not all tarantulas can eat just super worms. You can’t get many old world tarantulas to take them. @PanzoN88 doesnt have many old worlds at all. Pre killing them is not always a option for lager Ts. Tossing them in to a pet hole old world they will bury themselves and you won’t know if they ate it or not. And if your spider is young you increase the risk for it to be killed. Large terrestrial spiders like T. stirmi need a larger meal then a little worm. Roaches would be a better safer feeder for old world spiders.
Super worms have strong jaws and can do damage or even kill a Tarantula if they get hold of it. If feeding super worms, crush the heads of the worm before feeding, it will still wriggle and initiate a feeding response, but the fear of injury or death to the spider is greatly reduced.Can i feed my Ts mainly Superworms? I just started breeding them.