What do tarantulas eat?
As we mentioned before, tarantulas are animals that eat insects, so the food will be relatively cheap. At the time of feeding, you must consider the size of the prey. This insect should be a maximum of 1/4 the size of your pet tarantula.
Among the insects that are in the tarantula’s diet are crickets, cockroaches, lobsters, grasshoppers, and worms. Among others, however, crickets are the preferred food. Something fundamental but no less important is to emphasize that we should not offer it as food animals that can harm your tarantula such as bees and wasps.
If you put the food in and you see that it does not devour it, remove it from the terrarium and wait a day to repeat the process. Your pet tarantula may reject it again so you will have to wait longer to feed it. It may be that they are moving or simply has no appetite.
Remember that tarantulas eat once a week and can even fast. It is also important to keep in mind that insects have to be alive for your pet to eat them.
Very important: do not forget to put water so that the pet tarantula can drink. This can be done using a plastic bowl 1 inch high if it is an adult arachnid or depending on the size of your pet.
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How to feed a pet tarantula?
The moment you go to feed your tarantula, the first thing you should do is locate it. If you see that the pet tarantula has climbed into the terrarium and is very close to the lid, you should push it gently with any instrument that works for you and that does not harm it.
Using tweezers, take one of the prey with which you will feed your spider and place it in the terrarium quickly. If your food source is crickets, an adult tarantula consumes between 2-6 crickets a week.
If the pet tarantula does not consume everything, remove the prey and debris if possible. With worms, for example, you have to be careful as they can burrow and later attack the tarantula in its molting season. It is also good to remove the remains so that the terrarium is kept as clean as possible.
The best time to feed a pet tarantula is at night, don’t ever handle it when it is feeding. Also, don’t forget to close the lid when you do the whole process since it can escape when you least expect it.
Where do I get the food?
When it comes to providing a food source for your pet tarantula, you have two options. The first and the simplest is to buy insects in different pet stores, where you can find crickets and tenebrios for example. This option has the economic drawback, since you will always be spending to buy your pet’s food.
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The second option is to create your own food source, you can choose, for example, to start a colony of crickets or cockroaches to feed your tarantula. In this case, you will have the advantage of having fresh food always on hand and you go to reduce costs. Even if you have friends who have pet tarantulas, you can sell these insects to them.
You should never feed them crickets or any insects that you find in your house or on the street, in urban areas, since these can have different insecticides or chemicals, which can be lethal for your pet. You can look for insects but in places far from the city and farmlands.
