The trouble with wax worms

[Alexander Abrams]

Hello everyone

I decided to buy some wax worms to help vary the diet of my adult spider’s, they are not voracious eaters so they ignored them in the first instance, after a few minutes the worms had buried themselves into the coir, preventing the spider having a meal when it was required. Has anyone got a solution to this?

Thanks
Alex.

[kev hall]

hi Alexander, when i have used wax worms in the past i place them in a shallow bowl. The ones in the tank should hatch out into moths then be eaten by your t

[Matthew Baines]

I wouldn't worry about it because they will turn into chrysalis then turn into moths which will give your spider something too chase around the tank

[Samantha Lewanewsky]

I've had that happen aswell Alex, I know there's a couple in my H.lividums tank, but I'm not brave enough to fish them out!
Anyone know how long it takes for them to turn into moths?

What I do with my other spiders is get a lid of a cocoa powder pot, quite big and not really deep, then stick it in the tank with waxworms on and the my spiders come over and and eat them off the lid.
It also helps with any waxworm insides, if when the spider grabs them any goo comes out, it lands on the lid so you don't have to fiddle about with taking any substrate out.

[Mrs Linda Street]

the trouble with wax worms

we tried wax worms for the first time last week, we thought it might be a treat for our T's. We tried feeding them to 20 different t's, only 3 would eat them, a few of the others seemed to enjoy following them around the tank but the majority showed no interest whatsoever, and I am told they don't store well.

[Alexander Abrams]

Thanks for all the replies. I left a few in milk bottle tops (thanks Kev for the idea) hoping that the T's would come accross them during the night, but nothing happened, I've kept them in the fridge as suggested by the guy in the pet shop so they didn't move around that much, but after warming them up in my hand I dropped one right in front of my G aureostriata which had a molt about 10 days ago. It didn't really take to it instantly, but after it had wriggled under it, the T was on it in a second. I'll try warming them up before dropping them right in frot of my other adult T's, and see what happens.

Regards
Alex.