Good sling home?

[arachbiodude]

Acanthoscuria geniculata. Coir for substrate. A cork bark hide and a Sprite bottle cap for water. The little sling is in pic. It may have too much room.

 

[arachbiodude]

I am trying to read threads on enclosures. If it is too big, does that mean that it cannot catch the crickets or roaches. I may have to do 1\2 a mealworm. We will see.

 

[octanejunkie]

How big is the sling?

What size deli cup is that?


Here is what I do:

For a 1/2" A. genic I would use a 3/4 oz or 1 oz souffle cup with substrate and moss. Dampen the moss every week and the sling can drink from the moss - no water dish required.

Here is a 1" A genic (or any terrestrial) sling in a 2 oz deli cup, substrate and moss

 

[arachbiodude]

I think it is 16 oz cup. Seems too big. I do have some small cups like that and some moss.

 

[octanejunkie]

I think it is 16 oz cup. Seems too big. I do have some small cups like that and some moss.

how big is your sling?

 

[arachbiodude]

Won't the little sling jump out of there when you go to feed it?

 

[arachbiodude]

About the same size as your pic. a 1/2 inch?

 

[octanejunkie]

Won't the little sling jump out of there when you go to feed it?

not if you're careful and ready for that

Put the deli cup in an empty shoe box, I use plastic sterilite bins, and have a catch cup and paint brush handy

If the sling bolts when you open it's enclosure it will be in the shoe box and you can manage it/contain it before it gets away

they usually "pretend not to be seen" and crouch, or await a food item

once they grab the feeder, they ain't going no where, so you can water or do whatever as long as you don't disturb them directly

 

[rapidfire]

I am trying to read threads on enclosures. If it is too big, does that mean that it cannot catch the crickets or roaches. I may have to do 1\2 a mealworm. We will see.

I feed my slings tiny dubia. I crush their heads with my tongs and drop them relatively close to the sling. You can do the same with crickets.

 

[arachbiodude]

Well the little sling liked the cork bark and piled up the substrate to hide like a pokie. I got the size wrong. It is about 8 oz. I may add a little moss for humidity.