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Message: <blockquote data-quote="H.P." data-source="post: 28109" data-attributes="member: 3104"><p>Hi there, complete amateur here. To be honest, I don't yet own a tarantula, but a friend of mine is leaving the country for two years starting next month and asked me to take care of his tarantula during that time. I'm mostly familiar with the specifics of tarantula care, and I've already dealt with animals that feed mainly  on crickets before. Once, however, I seem to remember while binge-watching Emperor Scorpion videos on youtube I saw a description where an owner said that instead of dumping crickets in, they simply kept a breeding population alive in the same cage as their scorpion. I was wondering if this seemed feasible to any experienced owners, or, preferably, if anybody had successfully done something like that before, preferably with a tarantula. I'm not lazy, and I'm prepared to be conventional, but I've always liked the phrase "Work smarter, not harder".</p></blockquote><p></p>