Question Regarding Feeding Slings

[smudger]

Hi all,
As you already know that most slings tend to burrow, but how do you make sure there getting feed properly?
Do you dig them out then feed them or do you just throw food in and hope they get it?

 

[Enn49]

I just drop the food in and leave it, if it's still their next day remove it. Digging them out would stress them too much.

 

[smudger]

Right thanks for the advice, weren't too sure but you have cleared that up for me.

 

[Entity]

If it makes you feel better, what I do for my slings is crush the cricket's head so it still twitches and leave it by the spider's door. most of the time they will get it. and if they are in a molt process or something, you don't have to worry about the cricket hurting the spiderling.

 

[timc]

I do the same thing entity does

 

[kormath]

i only "dig" up one of my Ts after every couple months. The H. triseriatus is a box of dirt, i've never seen it unless I've dug it up to make sure it's not dead. And when i say dig it up, what really happens is i lift the web covered in substrate it's got covering 95% of the substrate.

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All of my other slings will open their burrows when they're ready to feed. some take a few weeks or a month. but those i can verify are alive cause they're always piling up new burrow tailings somewhere or they've burrowed against the side of the enclosure so i can see them