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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 226395" data-attributes="member: 29323">In the wild, tarantulas will take any food they can get & in the wild, when a sling (spiderling) is tiny, dead food is probably what they largely eat. As size does not matter so much, as dead prey cannot fight back & injure them.At an invert show this weekend, someone was selling slings at 0.25cm, that is around one tenth of an inch. Thus, so small that your eyesight loses it among the substrate. What would they be able to take down? As even the smallest fruit fly is too big for them.If feeding adult T's with things like Dubai roaches, it pays to crush the heads of the roaches, as with a crushed head a roach still moves for up to 48 hours & thus creates a stronger feeding response. Live Dubia will burrow & then return as a beetle that can prey on your T.  So even adult T's  will take dead food, if they are hungry & as long as it's fresh food. But dead (non moving,)  food does not produce a feeding response.</blockquote>