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I have been following the following advice while caring for my slings:
Of primary importance is recognizing that spiderlings are indeed babies. They need to eat. . . and eat a lot. Wingless fruit flies (for very tiny babies), little "pinhead" crickets, termites, and little mealworms are acceptable for newborn tarantulas. You can progressively graduate to larger cricket sizes as the spider grows. What's most important is that your spiderling needs to be able to find its food easily. If you place your spiderling in a large enclosure with the notion that it will be happy with room to roam as it "grows into" its container, you're doing your new darling a disservice. Like human babies have cribs, spider babies need a small, safe place where they do little but eat, rest, and grow.
While this advice does not seem to be harming the little dears I would really like some other T keepers opinions on this advice and on when they should start to be weaned onto junvinile feeding pattern and what the best next size home would be for them they are currently living in the film boxes they were sent to us in. For refenrance my slings are 3rd and 4th instar now and are chacos and redknees. Any halp and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Of primary importance is recognizing that spiderlings are indeed babies. They need to eat. . . and eat a lot. Wingless fruit flies (for very tiny babies), little "pinhead" crickets, termites, and little mealworms are acceptable for newborn tarantulas. You can progressively graduate to larger cricket sizes as the spider grows. What's most important is that your spiderling needs to be able to find its food easily. If you place your spiderling in a large enclosure with the notion that it will be happy with room to roam as it "grows into" its container, you're doing your new darling a disservice. Like human babies have cribs, spider babies need a small, safe place where they do little but eat, rest, and grow.
While this advice does not seem to be harming the little dears I would really like some other T keepers opinions on this advice and on when they should start to be weaned onto junvinile feeding pattern and what the best next size home would be for them they are currently living in the film boxes they were sent to us in. For refenrance my slings are 3rd and 4th instar now and are chacos and redknees. Any halp and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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