I am not a new member, I just can't for the life of me remember my username/password and the email provider I signed up under is no longer available to me. It's beeen a few months.
Anyway, I bought two slings awhile ago from NW Inverts. A baby Avic and a free Chaco Golden Knee Sling . Unfortunatley, the Aviculara died about a month after I got it. It never even ate (I have no idea what I did wrong, I read the care sheets and stdied here. He was so cool too, all blue and velvety in his neat web), but the Chaco is doing great. I feed him about 1 cricket a week, plus bugs I find in the woods behind my house. He is now pretty big, probobly 3" stretched out.
The bugs I usually feed him lately are the fat orb weaver spiders that are all over the place around here. he jumps right on them, sometimes catching him out of the air. Today I caught a HUGE one. I didn't realize how big until I poured it into his keeper out of the cup. It's abdomen was as big as his. I was going to take it out when he tackled it. they tussled for a second or two, then my T ran for the hills like he was afraid. i went to retrieve the weaver...but I noticed it was staggering around drunkenly. it took about 10 steps and fell over dead. My T must have injected venom or pierced something rather important. he is now happily deflating the largest meal of his young life. Man, my spider is so cool. I dig him.
However, it didn't occur to me today to think that spiders may be unsafe food for my pet. Should I avoid doing this and stick to meeker bugs? I like the spiders because they are so plump, it's a nice meal. As for instecticides, they are never used in the woods behind my house, so I am not worried about that.
Anyway, I bought two slings awhile ago from NW Inverts. A baby Avic and a free Chaco Golden Knee Sling . Unfortunatley, the Aviculara died about a month after I got it. It never even ate (I have no idea what I did wrong, I read the care sheets and stdied here. He was so cool too, all blue and velvety in his neat web), but the Chaco is doing great. I feed him about 1 cricket a week, plus bugs I find in the woods behind my house. He is now pretty big, probobly 3" stretched out.
The bugs I usually feed him lately are the fat orb weaver spiders that are all over the place around here. he jumps right on them, sometimes catching him out of the air. Today I caught a HUGE one. I didn't realize how big until I poured it into his keeper out of the cup. It's abdomen was as big as his. I was going to take it out when he tackled it. they tussled for a second or two, then my T ran for the hills like he was afraid. i went to retrieve the weaver...but I noticed it was staggering around drunkenly. it took about 10 steps and fell over dead. My T must have injected venom or pierced something rather important. he is now happily deflating the largest meal of his young life. Man, my spider is so cool. I dig him.
However, it didn't occur to me today to think that spiders may be unsafe food for my pet. Should I avoid doing this and stick to meeker bugs? I like the spiders because they are so plump, it's a nice meal. As for instecticides, they are never used in the woods behind my house, so I am not worried about that.