tarantula dies from eating superworm?

[paolo escoto]

well. a friend of my dad told me not to feed superworms to my T's. he told me that one of his spiders died three days after he fed it a superworm. what could be the possibilities?

 

[spiderengineer]

I can tell you right now a large amount of T hobbyist feed their T super worms so this is not true. it possible that it could have been a bad worm. I have heard speculation of their being bad crickets that have kill T after being eaten. ultimately since we don't know how old his T was, the condition he kept it, or other information. then we can't really be sure how it died. but the chances of it being a super worm is very slim in my opinion.

 

[paolo escoto]

that's what i though too. i've seen lots of videos of T's being fed superworms on youtube.

 

[spiderengineer]

when T's die with out explanation it logical to assume something that can explains the death. no one likes an unexplained death, so I can see why he would assume a super worm, but since its a stable food source in the hobby, this is clearly an isolated incident and most likely the death is from something else entirely.

 

[Nada]

The SW could have been pesticided, or carrying some kind of chemical, or It could have been an Isolated incedent.