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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vermis" data-source="post: 211117" data-attributes="member: 37487">Hello! Nice spider. One of the first, and least problematic, that I started with.Your tarantula already seems to be a pretty healthy size. With mealworms that comparatively big, I think 3-4 a week could soon result in a very swollen T! The most I feed is once or twice a week, and that strongly depends on prey size too. I think you could pare that down a lot more and your T wouldn't suffer too much. Take a look at Octanejunkie's stickied topic on the matter:[URL unfurl="true"]https://tarantulaforum.com/threads/underfeed-vs-overfeed.29144/[/URL]I've read books and online experiences where a keeper might feed a large spider as many crickets as they can hold in their fangs at any one time, but again, that's got a bit to do with prey size and is followed by a longer period of no feeding. In your situation, maybe stick to one at a time.It couldn't hurt to shake up the prey species from time to time. I think there's some obscure study on the nutrient content of mealworms that ended up with them being alternately praised as high in fat for sling/juvie growth and condemned as low in nutrients. Anyway, it's not something that would keep me up at night, but alternating with tubs of crickets or whatever feeders you can get wouldn't be too indulgent either.(Based on my personal preference and your experience with millipedes, I don't think it'd be too impractical to set up a wee colony of pet/feeder roaches <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

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