flightless flies: quick way to feed?

[silentarantula]

just curious as i've seen some of you have a lot of slings. i have slings but they are bigger enough to eat pinhead crickets.

but i have couple slings of 1/4" slings, they probably easier to eat flightless flies compare to pre-kill crickets. but i can't imagine someone got slings from sac, how they can feed flightless flies to each of them in fast pace?

 

[MassExodus]

just curious as i've seen some of you have a lot of slings. i have slings but they are bigger enough to eat pinhead crickets.

but i have couple slings of 1/4" slings, they probably easier to eat flightless flies compare to pre-kill crickets. but i can't imagine someone got slings from sac, how they can feed flightless flies to each of them in fast pace?

Someone had a video on YouTube where they froze a bunch to death and then thawed them out as needed. I use roach nymphs or cut up worms. I'm about to order some Suriname roaches, only one inch full grown, to feed my slings. They're parthenogenic as well, which is awesome..

 

[silentarantula]

cool. i'd like to "learn and experimentally (in safe and proper ways)" to feed slings beside cutted pinhead crickets and save my money. i have probably 35 slings that are under 1 inch. i only have two sexed tarantulas in my collection.

i plan to buy a roach colony few months later when they reach bigger size so the tarantulas don't really struggle with hard-bodied parts. but i know nymphs are the alternative to feed slings beside cutted crickets or flightless flies.

i've seen few youtubes or blogs. but come to my understanding, half of them are common care sheet which may be inaccurate or put tarantulas in risk (doesn't mean they are wrong or inexperienced). know what i'm saying?

 

[kormath]

All of my slings 1/4" and above eat pinhead lateralis or what the lps here calls baby crickets, just under 1/4"

Tried fruit flies once. Way more hassle than they're worth.

 

[MassExodus]

Sure, I get you. I think the guy that did that with the fff was thereapersride, breeder and YouTuber. He seems pretty solid Been watching his vids for years.

 

[silentarantula]

All of my slings 1/4" and above eat pinhead lateralis or what the lps here calls baby crickets, just under 1/4"

Tried fruit flies once. Way more hassle than they're worth.

yeah, hassles are my fear since they can get out of air pinhole and hard to dividing up flies per sling. i guess i will try some nymphs/roaches. time to check out few roaches to try, i know dubias are one of common roaches.

 

[Scoolman]

Shake a few flies into a cup, cap it, put in refrigerator for 3-5 minutes. Then shake cooled flies into sling containers. I could feed 150 slings this way in about an hour.
Fly colonies are mite magnets, but otherwise easy to maintain. I stick with roach nymphs now. Even the tiniest of slings can handle them.

 

[jrh3]

are blue bottle flies proper nutritional value? i know for mantids they are a staple. i also have tons of horse flies and cow flies in the summer.

 

[MassExodus]

are blue bottle flies proper nutritional value? i know for mantids they are a staple. i also have tons of horse flies and cow flies in the summer.

I don't know their nutritional value exactly, but i bet a sling would do fine on flies, especially fat horse flies filled with blood. i wouldn't feed wild prey to my spider though...while it's rare, deaths in collections have been attributed to it. You just don't know what they've been in, or eaten, or are carrying with them..it's a gamble. Then again you might never have a problem..

 

[kormath]

I don't know their nutritional value exactly, but i bet a sling would do fine on flies, especially fat horse flies filled with blood. i wouldn't feed wild prey to my spider though...while it's rare, deaths in collections have been attributed to it. You just don't know what they've been in, or eaten, or are carrying with them..it's a gamble. Then again you might never have a problem..

agreed. Never know if that grasshopper you just fed you pet was fleeing a field that was just sprayed with pesticides.

 

[RedCapTrio]

best for me are lat babies. just collect the egg cases and set them in a new container with card boards. you will soon have hundreds that are easy to collect and is pretty much liked by even my smallest slings.