3/4" versicolor sling hasn't eaten in a month

[cameron137]

I haven't been able to buy crickets because was moving. But I've had crickets for a week now, and I try every other day. I put a cricket in there and he either seems just too slow to attack it, or he's just defending himself and doesn't want to eat. I left a pre killed in there all night and he just scrunched up in the corner like he didn't want it so I took it out. I'm kinda concerned

 

[Will]

I wouldn't be concerned about that at all. Probably just premoult. Just keep offering it some food every 2 or 3 days. When was the last time it moulted?

Edit: My Brachypelma annitha sling went 50 days at 1/3" before moulting, and then another 12 days after moulting.

 

[cameron137]

I wouldn't be concerned about that at all. Probably just premoult. Just keep offering it some food every 2 or 3 days. When was the last time it moulted?

Edit: My Brachypelma annitha sling went 50 days at 1/3" before moulting, and then another 12 days after moulting.

Thanks that makes me feel a lot better. I knew older tarantulas can go a long time without eating I was just worried since it was a sling. He probably is in premier. Last molted July 18

 

[kormath]

Thanks that makes me feel a lot better. I knew older tarantulas can go a long time without eating I was just worried since it was a sling. He probably is in premier. Last molted July 18

Yep i'd say premolt. My little 1" sling G. rosea goes for about 6 weeks or so without eating and a week or so after molt before she eats again. For ones that don't have the fasting quirks of the rosea my B. sabulosum and B. albiceps both go about that same 6 weeks between feeding counting before and after molt.

 

[cameron137]

Yep i'd say premolt. My little 1" sling G. rosea goes for about 6 weeks or so without eating and a week or so after molt before she eats again. For ones that don't have the fasting quirks of the rosea my B. sabulosum and B. albiceps both go about that same 6 weeks between feeding counting before and after molt.

I wouldn't be concerned about that at all. Probably just premoult. Just keep offering it some food every 2 or 3 days. When was the last time it moulted?

Edit: My Brachypelma annitha sling went 50 days at 1/3" before moulting, and then another 12 days after moulting.

My spider successfully molted for the second time in my care it was just strange because after its last molt, I waited a week to feed and then fed it again 5 days after that, and that was the last time it has eaten anything. It was just weird it only ate twice that molt

 

[kormath]

must have fed it really well