House flies as food option for arboreal slings?

[Ratmosphere]

Can house flies be used as a food option for Avicularia versicolor slings? I have way too many flies right now and want to put them to good use.

 

[Enn49]

As long as you can be 100% certain that they haven't been in contact with any pesticides they should be ok although I don't know about the nutrition value of them.

 

[MassExodus]

They would be fine I think..but how exactly do you wrangle them for feeding?

 

[Ratmosphere]

I have them for my mantis. I hatch them out, put them in a giant deli cup with a hole on top and a plug. When the time comes, I quickly unplug the hole and get a smell deli cup to put over it. Usually I can do this with no flies flying out. Then, I put the lid on the small deli cup rather quickly. Say I have 6 flies. How am I going to put all of them in my enclosure? I now walk to the front porch and put them out in the cold for a minute so they're inactive. This is when I put them into enclosures.

 

[MassExodus]

I have them for my mantis. I hatch them out, put them in a giant deli cup with a hole on top and a plug. When the time comes, I quickly unplug the hole and get a smell deli cup to put over it. Usually I can do this with no flies flying out. Then, I put the lid on the small deli cup rather quickly. Say I have 6 flies. How am I going to put all of them in my enclosure? I now walk to the front porch and put them out in the cold for a minute so they're inactive. This is when I put them into enclosures.

Excellent! I see some fat flies when the weather is good, I never thought about using them as prey.

 

[Ratmosphere]

My sling ate a fly! It looked way to small to feed her though. This sling runs away from crickets while the other one attacks it as soon as it's dropped in.

 

[Ratmosphere]

The sling will only eat flies. Just fed it 7 flies and it isn't interested in a cricket. The sling is a good size too!

 

[Muawiyah]

I've been feeding my arboreal T's, green bottle, blue bottle and house flies. The feeding response is amazing. after initially feeding them wax moths to great success, I realised that the arboreals prefer flying insects.

Bit of a long one, but well worth the watch:

 

[Muawiyah]