crickets or, adult cricket legs are much a easier meal for a sling. Adult cricket legs are your best bet for baby Ts, they feed a bigger and smaller T. :biggrin:
I only feed slings over 1.5"+ mealworms. Not worth the risk for the spider.
Reality is they're the dominant feeder in the hobby and for good reason. A number of spiders won't eat mealworms, superworms, or roaches. ALL of mine will readily take crickets.
yeah your right , get a big collection and stick to bulk crickets/ roaches everyone is happy
., Some Ts love roaches others don't , a lot of my Ts prefer superworms to roaches. I fed superworms for years, on occasion they all like them , sadly cultivating them is too hard can u buy 1000's in bulk?
Well, I get them at the monthly expos in my country, a box of them usually lasts me about three months or so. They actually breed in the box so I get two or three generations. TBH I have no clue whether they are available in the USA. Might be just a local Czech or European thing.
Crickets are great for baby spiders. I wouldn't give them anything else.
They've eaten certain prey species in the native habitat for thousands of years, which we can't really offer to them, and crickets are probably pretty close to that for many of them. The big NW tropical terrestrials chow down on roaches, but some other species won't touch them, especially a number of arboreals. Just because it's an insect doesn't mean a tarantula is going to eat it. Tarantulas aren't 'weird.' It's our lack of understanding and ignorance that makes them seem that way. They have very good, fine-tuned reasons for doing what they do.
Idk, I suppose you're right. I'd still be curious to know how they can tell the difference though lol.
They can recognize prey in various ways. It may be the vibrations, footstep rhythm, probing antenna, or air from their wings, maybe even the scent. Sometimes they grab an insect and let go.