Other Kinds of Feeders

[hellknite]

I was wondering, or moreover wanted to ask what do you feed your Ts?
Aside from the normal:
Roaches (dubia, lateralis, rhombifolia)
Superworms
Crickets

Like in my case I ocassionaly feed them with
Grasshoppers
June bugs
Black soldier flies

What other possible feeders?

 

[bestco]

Locusts

 

[hellknite]

Locusts

Locusts are readily available here. It's a local delicacy.
The bigger ones give the Ts a challenge.

 

[bestco]

Where you from?

 

[hellknite]

from the Philippine islands..

 

[creaturekeeper 91]

Has anyone heard of feeding nightcrawlers or horned tomato worms? I just wondered if it wasn't recommended or just not tried much

 

[god61021]

im also wondering about the horn worms because we can get them pretty easy here now

 

[creaturekeeper 91]

I feed them to all my reptiles so they are always a good buy for me too

 

[tcrave]

while back i was givin a avicularia versicolor the prior owner fed her small Anoles, and long tail lizards. im not really sure how safe but in the wild the avic sp eat them.

 

[god61021]

my research says that most vertebrates (mice, lizards) are to heavy in calcium for a tarantula and therefore not good to feed regularly.

 

[Tongue Flicker]

Blue bottle fly larvae (cultured, of course)
Fruit beetle grubs
Coconut beetle grubs (this are freaking huge so make sure your T can tackle it safely)

In my case, i feed cultured frogs that grow 2" long from snout to vent. Once you get a nice frog colony you'll start cursing every amphibian you'll see. Frogs are naturally found where a great majority of non-desert tarantulas live and has softer bones for digestion and does not have as high calcium as a mammalian or reptilian bone possesses

 

[creaturekeeper 91]

Coconut beetle grubs huh? That sounds pretty cool I'm gonna have to get my hands on some. I really want to try horned worms and silk worms and see if the like them..

 

[Grammostola in my heart]

ive fed mine hornworms before, and they loved it. hornworms can however eat VERY toxic plants, so dont feed your t's worms from the garden. we dont use pesticides or chemicals, nor do any of our neighbors, so i get alot of my t food outside

 

[Grammostola in my heart]

but not hornworms. only buy cultured hornworms. i also have alot of papaya trees, so for smaller t's ill give them larva from wasps that lay their eggs in the papayas

 

[Denny Dee]

Here is the cuisine list for my collection:

Hornworms (agreed on the warnings listed above)
Silkworms
Butterworms
Waxworms
Reptiworms
Superworms
Mealworms
Dubias

and crickets of course. Dirty, smelly, disgusting crickets. But what are you going to do?

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

I would add Turkistan pallid and lobster roaches,as well.

 

[MatthewM1]

I use mainly latteralis & dubia roaches. Occasionally super worms or hissing ****roaches. I hate dealing with crickets. Wanna get try hornworms and silkworms just haven't yet.

 

[hellknite]

Coconut beetle grubs are abundant here that some natives in the outskirts eat it.. I've tried it once together with locusts...

 

[Denny Dee]

Hi Hellnite, Where are you from? We don't have coconut beetles native here. Not even locusts.

 

[Grammostola in my heart]

I would guess some Pacific nation, or even hawaii