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<blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 232033" data-attributes="member: 29323"><p>What are you feeding? I only use mealworms for my small slings. The heads need to be cut off otherwise they burrow & can then emerge weeks later as beetles. One big advantage of cutting a head off a mealworm is that your sling gets easy access to the soft inner of the mealworm. A meal worm will still be moving slightly after 2 - 3 days. So it's like feeding live food. But with easy access.</p><p></p><p>A second advantage with using beheaded mealworms is that being largish, they are normally easy to find & remove. Although some slings will bury it's mealworms.</p><p></p><p>With small slings I have never found a way to know if they have eaten or not. They eat so little. So I simply put mealworms in 2- 3 times per week & then remove the next day to stop them going mouldy. So always leave it there overnight. Many T's eat overnight when the room is quiet & dark. </p><p></p><p>Another issue is what do you keep your small sling in? You use the term cage. I keep all of my small slings in small vials. And then as they grow, I move them into larger enclosures. But even my large slings only have smallish enclosures. T's are ambush predators, they sit & wait for the food to come to them. So a larger enclosure is not always ideal. </p><p></p><p>The larger of these enclosures, I only use on larger, slow growing slings that like to burrow.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://ibb.co/q1hFYG9" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/ThJqMXR/containerssmalla.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>This is how I keep my slings. Inside a food container. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://ibb.co/447YTY6" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/c21CFCG/slingsa.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>This is the kind of thing I keep larger slings in. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://ibb.co/SyLKz4B" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/pwm3SBd/containers.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Again, I only use these for larger slings. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://ibb.co/b6N5550" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/qDmYYYS/new4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="m0lsx, post: 232033, member: 29323"] What are you feeding? I only use mealworms for my small slings. The heads need to be cut off otherwise they burrow & can then emerge weeks later as beetles. One big advantage of cutting a head off a mealworm is that your sling gets easy access to the soft inner of the mealworm. A meal worm will still be moving slightly after 2 - 3 days. So it's like feeding live food. But with easy access. A second advantage with using beheaded mealworms is that being largish, they are normally easy to find & remove. Although some slings will bury it's mealworms. With small slings I have never found a way to know if they have eaten or not. They eat so little. So I simply put mealworms in 2- 3 times per week & then remove the next day to stop them going mouldy. So always leave it there overnight. Many T's eat overnight when the room is quiet & dark. Another issue is what do you keep your small sling in? You use the term cage. I keep all of my small slings in small vials. And then as they grow, I move them into larger enclosures. But even my large slings only have smallish enclosures. T's are ambush predators, they sit & wait for the food to come to them. So a larger enclosure is not always ideal. The larger of these enclosures, I only use on larger, slow growing slings that like to burrow. [url=https://ibb.co/q1hFYG9][img]https://i.ibb.co/ThJqMXR/containerssmalla.jpg[/img][/url] This is how I keep my slings. Inside a food container. [url=https://ibb.co/447YTY6][img]https://i.ibb.co/c21CFCG/slingsa.jpg[/img][/url] This is the kind of thing I keep larger slings in. [url=https://ibb.co/SyLKz4B][img]https://i.ibb.co/pwm3SBd/containers.jpg[/img][/url] Again, I only use these for larger slings. [url=https://ibb.co/b6N5550][img]https://i.ibb.co/qDmYYYS/new4.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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