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Is there anything wrong with sparingly offering food the same size or even bigger than your Ts abdomen?
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<blockquote data-quote="meridannight" data-source="post: 220457" data-attributes="member: 39025"><p>I have a bad experience with that. I once fed my Cyriopagopus sp hati hati spiderling a cricket slightly larger than the spider ('s abdomen). That cricket ended up killing my little spiderling! Next day when I got home to check on him, the carcass was lying next to his burrow. I was really hoping it was just a molt, but unfortunately that was my dead spider. The cricket being none the worse for wear.</p><p></p><p>Now, I knew about not feeding prey larger than my tarantula, but I hadn't seen my spiderling in months. He built himself a cave near a piece of bark and just stayed in there. I never saw more than tips of his feet down in the hole. I just didn't know how big he was. Unfortunately as it turned out, that cricket was just a little larger than he. That's the worst thing that has happened to me during the time I've kept tarantulas. I'm never gonna feed any prey larger than a tarantula to mine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="meridannight, post: 220457, member: 39025"] I have a bad experience with that. I once fed my Cyriopagopus sp hati hati spiderling a cricket slightly larger than the spider ('s abdomen). That cricket ended up killing my little spiderling! Next day when I got home to check on him, the carcass was lying next to his burrow. I was really hoping it was just a molt, but unfortunately that was my dead spider. The cricket being none the worse for wear. Now, I knew about not feeding prey larger than my tarantula, but I hadn't seen my spiderling in months. He built himself a cave near a piece of bark and just stayed in there. I never saw more than tips of his feet down in the hole. I just didn't know how big he was. Unfortunately as it turned out, that cricket was just a little larger than he. That's the worst thing that has happened to me during the time I've kept tarantulas. I'm never gonna feed any prey larger than a tarantula to mine. [/QUOTE]
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