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<blockquote data-quote="Bugmom" data-source="post: 62691" data-attributes="member: 4273"><p>It happened twice - one was a dwarf species, Kochiana brunnipes. The K. p. was in the vial. Put mealworm in. Spiderling was nowhere to be found at next feeding. Couldn't have escaped because I observed it in it's burrow after the mealworm was placed in there and the lid put back on. I can't recall the other species, it wouldn't have been a dwarf species, but it was the same scenario. There was NOTHING left except the mealworms in those vials. Those vial lids are either "on" or "off," they snap on so tight that I'm positive it wasn't an error on my part. I've never lost a sling out of a vial due to improper lid closure.</p><p></p><p>I honestly thought the mealworm-eats-sling thing was mostly hype but it's clearly not. I will not use mealworms again unless the head is crushed and the T is mostly scavenging on the worm. I know people say crickets will eat slings too but I've yet to have that happen. However, if a tarantula doesn't take the prey within 10 minutes, I take it out. It'll eat when it wants to and any tarantula that starves itself to death would have done so despite anything I did or didn't do, and was clearly not meant to thrive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bugmom, post: 62691, member: 4273"] It happened twice - one was a dwarf species, Kochiana brunnipes. The K. p. was in the vial. Put mealworm in. Spiderling was nowhere to be found at next feeding. Couldn't have escaped because I observed it in it's burrow after the mealworm was placed in there and the lid put back on. I can't recall the other species, it wouldn't have been a dwarf species, but it was the same scenario. There was NOTHING left except the mealworms in those vials. Those vial lids are either "on" or "off," they snap on so tight that I'm positive it wasn't an error on my part. I've never lost a sling out of a vial due to improper lid closure. I honestly thought the mealworm-eats-sling thing was mostly hype but it's clearly not. I will not use mealworms again unless the head is crushed and the T is mostly scavenging on the worm. I know people say crickets will eat slings too but I've yet to have that happen. However, if a tarantula doesn't take the prey within 10 minutes, I take it out. It'll eat when it wants to and any tarantula that starves itself to death would have done so despite anything I did or didn't do, and was clearly not meant to thrive. [/QUOTE]
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