What is the best prey?

[bjbrokaw]

What do you think would be the best prey for tarantula feeding? I know crickets are always easy but what else? Also what would I be able to breed at home other than crickets? I don't like crickets because of their smell and they are too loud.

[Crazy0monkey]

Roaches by far. B dubia are great feeding roaches because they cant fly and they cant cimb most things(so iv been told). THey dont smell much or make any noises. Roaches are considered the beast feeders imo because of the nutrion factors

[bjbrokaw]

If i setup a roach colony would small roaches work for feeding spiderlings? Read a few topics on roach colonies here and it didn't mention that.

[hairmetalspider]

Small whiny children.

After that...I'd say a Dubia roach colony.

[spiders4life]

A varied diet of grasshoppers, crickets and roaches is the best thing to feed your spider. When keeping the bigger species, a small mouse or lizard could be a supplement to the varied diet.

As mentioned a colony of B dubia or G portentosa are quite easy to mangage.

Regards Mikael

[YeloNeck]

4 months ago i bought something about 100 Nauphoeta cinerea. Now i have hmmm... maybe 350 ? 150 Imago, and rest of them are babies. Great for feeding scorpions and spiders. They climb, but they can't go through vaseline. Flying ? Definitely No !

[Hedorah99]

In my experience the best are crickets, roaches (your choice), meal worms, and mega worms.

[wsimms]

Dubias have replaced crickets completely at my house. You can feed small nymphs to your small T's.

[Sooner]

I like to think that dubias are to us as mom's homemade dinners. Good, hearty, and nutritious.

Crickets are burgers to T's. Easy to digest, feisty, and nutritious enough.

Superworms are your turkey legs for T's. There's a lot of bones but it's tasty and fatty.

[clam1991]

my lil ones love baby roaches

just match the size of a roach with the t
and they'll eat like hobos

[Travis K]

If i setup a roach colony would small roaches work for feeding spiderlings? Read a few topics on roach colonies here and it didn't mention that.

Yes I use dubia nymphs for my slings. With dubia you get very small to pretty large, and they reproduce fairly quickly. I keep saying I need to cull my colony but haven't got around to it yet.

[radicaldementia]

I use dubias and they work great for me. I started with about 50, now I have at least 500. It takes a little while to get the colony started, but once your first-born generation matures and starts breeding, there's no stopping them.

Dubias have pretty good defense behaviors, they burrow and play dead, making it hard for predators to find them. I get around this by crushing their heads, then they just flop around.

[the nature boy]

Small whiny children.

Yeah, I was going to say any *amn kid that gets on my lawn. lol.

--the nature boy

[mwh9]

Your going to need a lot of Isopods after that.

[dragon_95]

b dubia is pretty good