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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MassExodus" data-source="post: 54568" data-attributes="member: 4086"><p>I've read a lot of posts about spiders getting bacterial and fungal infections from crickets(suspected from crickets) Also nematodes..which are a death sentence to the spider and also to the rest of your tarantulas if you don't immediately isolate the infected. I'd dispose of a spider with nematodes immediately, and sanitize and isolate every spider/enclosure I own. My own distaste is from experience...they die too often when kept, and they stink and seem to be much filthier than cockroaches, too me. Florid flies are drawn to them...well, like flies..and florid flies are suspected of carrying all of the things I mentioned and infecting the crickets, which kills our spiders. Most keepers would disagree, as crickets are the main staple in the hobby..but I find roaches to be easily kept and bred, they don't die very often at all, they don't eat tarantulas that are molting, and none of the posts I've read about sick tarantulas have ever pointed a finger at them...crickets, however, are blamed on a continuous basis. Sometimes, where there's smoke, there's fire, and in this hobby, most of our hard data comes from shared experiences, by keepers...contrary to some peoples opinions of themselves, there are no "experts" in this hobby. All of this is just my own opinion, from research and experience. I cut them out of my spiders diets completely. I think I'll only benefit from this.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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