how often to feed juvi smithi 1 inch ?????

[john radcliffe]

cannot find the answer online

[Colin D Wilson]

Personally I'd try and follow a natural feeding regimen for it and give it a cricket just about half its own body size between 5 and 7 days apart, (you could feed smaller items a little more often of course if you wish) Spiders are opportunistic feeders so it's not drastic that you stick to a definite routine. All our slings here get fed once a week in different combinations of size and amounts of prey items, bit of variation doesn't harm in my opinion.
Access to water at all times for the little chap too.

[Dee Pluck]

i dont have a set routine for feeding my spids
they get fed when ever i get around to it.
they always have water though.!

[James Box]

my personal method is this:
i tend to check weekly, and if a sling is losing weight, so to speak, i'll feed it up.
i try not to get them TOO fat, but with slow growers, i do feed generously when they need it, but it can be a while before i deem they're ready.
i suppose my method is kind of a feast and famine approach...they seem to do ok with it, but it does require checking. sometimes i'll feed them if it's been over a couple weeks regardless.
water i think is more important, though...they can get by with surprisingly infrequent feeding.
the above applies to my slow growers, which i thought most applicable for this, thosugh i have never owned a B smithi specifically, only a few other species of Brachypelma.

the fast growers tend to eat more regularly, probably weekly, again, unless they're quite fat already.