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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isaac" data-source="post: 214220" data-attributes="member: 38682">Anything under 3/4" I keep in #25 or #50 dram vials with very little foliage and a starter burrow. Elegans usually get a little smaller one because they're around 1/16 to an 1/8" after 2N, they will dig though! If they don't something is up. The G. pulchra I've noticed really don't, but if they're 1/2" smash a cricket head and leave the entire cricket for them, i dont do pieces, like the above said, you never know if they eat it, once a smashed head cricket starts to twitch it'll trigger a feeding response for larger prey items that you want dialed in early while pieces of it wont.. also you can easily tell if it did in fact eat it, but yes overall fff probably won't sustain them. And given the enclosure I think they're around 3x4" which is a little more room than I'd give a sling, and the holes are probably so big the fff are just getting out, so you may not actually be feeding them?    C. Elegans seem incredibly sensitive as slings, I do 3 or 4 droplets in their vials, they're kept in a safe container, in the constant dark, around 75° give or take and I only move or disturb them to feed them every 7 days, other than that I do not touch them, and they do incredibly well. I think in that 3x4" TC enclosure there's just too much room, too much exposure, and they're not comfy at all, and if they don't burrow they usually dont eat well, and I've noticed they usually won't survive even if they do take a few meals here and there. Once they can and will take pin head roaches or crickets, I take them off the fff as soon as possible, or if they seem under I'll smash a head and let them scavenge a big meal to help sustain them. They can be pretty sensitive when they're that small, so be mindful of that. I will not remove them until 4th or 5th instar, usually by then they're 3/4-1" and are ready for a new keep, after that they can be kept quite normally. I keep a lot of different species and most are kept basicallythe same no issues, but the C elegans has become one I've particularly fond of because of how sensitive they are, "the gears that squeak the most, get the most grease" I suppose. They grow fast once they're "happy", so the reward comes faster than you'd expect, and the feeling of accomplishment will be immense!     I'll attach a photo of one of my vials so you have a size to ratio for comparison. This amount of growth shown in the photos, under said conditions can happen in a series of just a few months, and over an inch within a year. Not the best photos, but I imagine you'll get the gist. Hope this helps</blockquote>

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