Best Tips for Beginner Tarantula Keepers

OK, couple of questions first.

Do you have other animals that will be consuming the insects?

Juvies won’t need that much food. And live prey by then. They need the motion to trigger a feeding response. They don’t eat daily. Cricket when established breed fast. You will have far more crickets that you need in a hurry. If there is a pet store nearby, that would be the best bet.

And the spider you are looking at is a dwarf spider, so it will be small as well. Not trying to discourage breeding feeders, just letting you know my stance. But even as an adult it probably wont eat more than 6 or 8 crickets in a month.

I have 9 tarantulas, and 7 lizards and I don’t raise my own feeders. Easier to me to go get 100 crickets once a week at Petco.

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