tarantula kat what's your opinion on vertebrates as feeders,like geckos,frogs and pinky mice. I use them,when I can get them and I have no ethical issues with it at all,food is food.
I have a little story to tell about superworms. A while ago I purchased a "female" C.cyaneopubescens and since it was way too small to eat adult dubias, I'd always feed it Superworms. Sometimes the worms would just dig down into the substrate, but I was certain they all were eaten soon after, as the T. was rapidly growing. Just one molt before he'd emerge as a mature male (I was scammed, I guess), I discovered some chunks of crumbled, black chitin in the webbing. That night I looked to maybe see what it was and when I heard a loud crunch from his enclosure, I discovered that a hand full of superworms had developed into beetles and were hiding behind the corkbark background, from where they emerged at night time. The spider had then been feeding upon the adult beetles when they came by and luckily consumed them all before the final molt. Thanks for reading everyone. :)
Teja Mirt instead of making multiple comments about how offended you somehow are over a 9 second intro, just click out the video. Everyone else with a functioning sense of humor can stay
What i've learned in keeping tarantulas for almost 25 years: "Less is more!" Most ppl overfeed their tarantulas and feed them with wrong things. My huge L. parahybana ist nearly 16 years old. Only with a few crickets per month ...
Dubia roaches can indeed attack/eat your T when molting. My Acanthoscurria Geniculata died because of one. Right after her molt she got bit in her abdomen and juice leaked out. I only discovered after I came home from work.
yeah... i'm always confused when people say roaches are harmless to other creatures. or when people say roaches wont hurt each other....that it's safe to keep males together. My two male hissers fought a lot at night. But since I was told they can't harm each other during fighting(and that them fighting is normal and ok), I didn't separate them. Then one day I saw that one of them was missing half of it's other antenna(i hope i'm using the right word). Yeah... I separated them that day. And have kept them apart since. But I'm worried they suffer from solitude now. Can they even? I know they for sure would love to be with a female! but I do not want any babies. Also I have seen is some roach videos that some of the roaches(that are being housed together) are missing the tips of their legs, their 'toes' so to speak. So yeah... I've come to the conclusion that roaches AREN'T harmless to others
4:50 you shouldn't leave ANYTHING in with your tarantula if it's molting! Crickets especially, but anything that's running around the enclosure can cause your tarantula stress, which in turn can cause a bad molt.
Hey Kat thanks for being a cool person that takes the fear out of spiders ... and make it cool with all your lil side bits and when you give them hornworms they say oh yay blue slurpee has me laughing
I loved the intro and it was nice to see a colab with you two. I do wish we had locusts here tbh and it’s been awesome to have you in the chat on Saturday nights. Thanks for another great video 💙
I breed my own feeders so I know they come from a good place. I have a breeding colony of meal worms ( for a future leo and to sell ) and am working on breeding super worms as well! I would also love to breed dubias.
Loved watching this and most of all had a blast doing this! Thankyou again Kat sucks we can't get the blue worms here 😔 I'll be in the States next year!
I kept hawkmoths for about a year! They are extremely difficult and require like an entire room space wise, because of their flight pattern. They also need high nectar producing plants, i used to make mock nectar and inject it into the throats of the flowers I had.
As someone who intensely dislikes roaches and crickets, but who would really really REALLY love a T- thank you!! I’m still debating what kind of T I want as my first, but knowing I can feed something like superworms (which are also more apartment building friendly… I don’t think management would like me having a colony of roaches!) is so awesome.
I don't know what is happening but I don't remember any RUclips notifications for your last few vidoes. It's a rainy Saturday so I will be binging your videos. Just a story I wanted to share with someone,. My A. chalcodes spiderling (less than a dime size) molted and I thought she was dead. I found her under her water dish pure white, My heart "Oh no what am I going to do." My Head "Nothing put the dish back and allow her some peace." She's fine and more active than ever.
This was so informative! Thank you! I purchased my first tarantula this week and gave her a hornworm for her first meal; she was STOKED. Scared the hell out of me.
Well that solved the mystery for me. Been looking for horn worms everywhere here in the UK since watching you use them to no avail. Now I know why 😂 another great vid. Thanx
My dad is very arachnophobic but has been trying to conquer his phobia this year. Like me he's fascinated by spiders and I think he'd enjoy your channel a lot like I do! Just wanna say i think you're really cool and I love your tarantulas already
Wow, that was well done! Mr. Grindler in Tarantula Kat disguise...didn't see that coming ;) Also, how the heck does he get those Last Action Hero take-downs?! Craziness!! Watch out Kat, this fellow may be raising the stakes for feeding vids lol!! Another informative episode, superb content.
I was very exited by the thumbnail and pro and con I super exited for the video keep up the videos love ❤️ em 😇😇😇😇 yea I heared crickets 🦗 are bad I used to only feed my Arizona blode just crickets 🦗 for over a year shes seems weird
This was great. Mr grindler is cool. I’ve been following him for a bit. It’s been nice watching the collaborations from different people. I’m in Australia so no locusts or horn gummy bear worms lol. Only have Something called woodies… not dubia or red runners. Same same though. Cool recording though. Feels like a community here with Ts. Not just RUclips Channels. Watch this space through. Just saying.
Great video Kat! I really wish we could get those horned worms over here. Could get some awesome feeding clips with those! Lmao at Jaden too he pulls off dressing as you too well its quite scary 🤣
recently just received my second ever tarantula!! I used to have that skeleton leg one but it died a year ago so now i have a curly hair!! She/he is very calm and EXTREMELY beautiful 🥺🥺but they kick some hair every now and then whenever i touch them when refilling their water or misting time. I really wanted to find a non expensive and easy to find meal for tarantulas so thanks for the information!!
The kid Tried “gummie worms” with her Ts this week based you your videos and some hated them and at least one went nutty for it. She has since had a couple more lol :)
I use two different types of roaches for feeding; dubias and Cuban lobster roaches. The lobster roaches spawn quite emensely, and their nymphs are small enough for most of the tiniest slings. There was a mother redrunner in the shipment of lobster roaches, and it has layed an ootheca, so that will be a nice 3rd roach for feeding. I pretty much quit on crickets and mealworms. Crickets are low yield, and they are tricky to breed. Roaches are better for both reasons. You don’t need to bother cleaning out the roach excrement/frass as the nymphs feed on it for nutrients. So long as it doesn’t get moldy, it is fine.
watching many many videos before I start having T's. I have blonds right outside my front door (wild) and enjoy watching them come out as it gets dark out. I may catch/keep a wild one if I am able to find one that is small (?)
I am terrible at catching crickets with the pincer. I either squash them or they escape. I have an enclosure with a slide door (up and down, not side to side) so I can easily tip one or two cricks into my Legsi's enclosure.
Really good video 👍 I feed my ts crickets (btw if u house them the right way they do live a long time and that's why i like them) and i have tried superworms many times but somehow my ts - dont really like them? Most of them wont eat superworms at all, and the rest are just really hesitant. Even one of my a. geniculatas wont eat them 😐 But the other takes superworms just fine. It's just a bit weird for so many of them to be so picky.
My mom used to do agricultural research involving a horn worm called a tobacco bud worm. Occasionally, she would bring the caterpillars home for me to take care of.
I use Locust, crickets., superworms,and the smaller slings LOVE wax worms which I love as they cant hurt my T. Not keen to try roaches as hear they can breed and infest really easily? Don't like mealworms as they stink and pupate really quick. Wish could get blue worms in the UKx
Hey kat I'm about to get some crickets do you know what the best size would be for a adult female Phiddipus auddex. (Bold Jumping Spider) Thanks, i love ur channel and enjoy ur day.
I do crickets because they’re at a bait shop near me and I don’t have any Dubias near me. I don’t really like mealworms because it’s hard to get them out if they burrow underground. I also don’t know if any hornworms live around me and i don’t know if they are native or in any stores
His tarantulas take downs are so cool. His Ts actively hunt down the prey and virtually pounce on them. Has he trained them this way, or are they just a type that hunts that way?
My favorite is still the red runner. Your pal probably tries to grab them with tongs. Not me! I take a vial that slings come in and a paint brush to do the job. I simply direct the roach into the vial with the paint brush. It may take me three or four tries, but it always works. Then I dump the roach out in front of the T. If it escapes, I let out a maniacal laugh and redirect the Roach toward the T with my paint brush. I have way too much fun doing that. I am ashamed to say I haven't tried superworms yet. Should I try them dipped in hot sauce?
I'm a novice and have two rose hair tarantulas. All I've ever fed them are crickets. Is it best to vary their diet? Would that make them happier and more healthy? Also, if you feed them larger prey like the horn worms you showed, do you feed them less frequently?
thank you Mr Grindlers Creatures for helping, go check him out here: ruclips.net/channel/UCdNGXL0pMJ5uFC8qRIAHpDA
Anytime you need her just ask 🤣💚
I thought I clicked on an impersonator video or something at the beginning xD
@@Chihyou 🤣🤣🤣
tarantula kat what's your opinion on vertebrates as feeders,like geckos,frogs and pinky mice. I use them,when I can get them and I have no ethical issues with it at all,food is food.
The intro omg I laugh so hard
I try my best 🤷♂️🤣
Mr Grindlers Creatures lol 😂 it was funny
Cheers spider den!
Mr Grindlers Creatures cheers 🥂
😭fr
I have a little story to tell about superworms.
A while ago I purchased a "female" C.cyaneopubescens and since it was way too small to eat adult dubias, I'd always feed it Superworms.
Sometimes the worms would just dig down into the substrate, but I was certain they all were eaten soon after, as the T. was rapidly growing. Just one molt before he'd emerge as a mature male (I was scammed, I guess), I discovered some chunks of crumbled, black chitin in the webbing. That night I looked to maybe see what it was and when I heard a loud crunch from his enclosure, I discovered that a hand full of superworms had developed into beetles and were hiding behind the corkbark background, from where they emerged at night time. The spider had then been feeding upon the adult beetles when they came by and luckily consumed them all before the final molt.
Thanks for reading everyone. :)
Self sustaining tarantula moment
Legit was confused for a sec at the start.
Spitting Image right 🤷♂️🤣
Teja Mirt what are you going on about? It was quite funny!
Teja Mirt instead of making multiple comments about how offended you somehow are over a 9 second intro, just click out the video. Everyone else with a functioning sense of humor can stay
tarantula kat ☝🏼
@Teja Mirt is there something wrong with people in drag? 🤷♂️ Lighten up, have a laugh and crack on with life fella 💚
What i've learned in keeping tarantulas for almost 25 years: "Less is more!"
Most ppl overfeed their tarantulas and feed them with wrong things. My huge L. parahybana ist nearly 16 years old. Only with a few crickets per month ...
Dubia roaches can indeed attack/eat your T when molting. My Acanthoscurria Geniculata died because of one. Right after her molt she got bit in her abdomen and juice leaked out. I only discovered after I came home from work.
Geez :( how sad 💔
When you smash dubia head by tweezer before feed, roach will be walking around, no hiding under substrate and will be peaceful for T's.
Yeah Dubia killed my scorpion :(
that's why I decapitate roaches upon feeding. The damned thing would still be alive, but it would be harmless ahahah
yeah... i'm always confused when people say roaches are harmless to other creatures.
or when people say roaches wont hurt each other....that it's safe to keep males together.
My two male hissers fought a lot at night. But since I was told they can't harm each other during fighting(and that them fighting is normal and ok), I didn't separate them. Then one day I saw that one of them was missing half of it's other antenna(i hope i'm using the right word). Yeah... I separated them that day. And have kept them apart since. But I'm worried they suffer from solitude now. Can they even? I know they for sure would love to be with a female! but I do not want any babies.
Also I have seen is some roach videos that some of the roaches(that are being housed together) are missing the tips of their legs, their 'toes' so to speak.
So yeah... I've come to the conclusion that roaches AREN'T harmless to others
4:50 you shouldn't leave ANYTHING in with your tarantula if it's molting! Crickets especially, but anything that's running around the enclosure can cause your tarantula stress, which in turn can cause a bad molt.
It's easier if you have another bin, that way you just pick up the egg crate and move it to the clean bin, and pick up any stragglers.
I've been binge watching your channel for the past few days, I'm obsessed with tarantulas now!
omg the start i’m dying 💀
Favourite intro ever 💥🤣
Hey Kat thanks for being a cool person that takes the fear out of spiders ... and make it cool with all your lil side bits and when you give them hornworms they say oh yay blue slurpee has me laughing
I loved the intro and it was nice to see a colab with you two. I do wish we had locusts here tbh and it’s been awesome to have you in the chat on Saturday nights. Thanks for another great video 💙
I love how you all work together! Absolutely brilliant! If us humanity could do the same!
I breed my own feeders so I know they come from a good place. I have a breeding colony of meal worms ( for a future leo and to sell ) and am working on breeding super worms as well! I would also love to breed dubias.
My superworms have black stuff from its butt is that okay? I’m scared to feed them to my t
i find myself constantly coming back to this video, super useful
Loved watching this and most of all had a blast doing this! Thankyou again Kat sucks we can't get the blue worms here 😔 I'll be in the States next year!
Great example of education AND fun, no wonder I can't stay away!
Mr Grindlers Creatures!! Yes dude! Jaden you do rock the kat look lol! Such an awesome video Kat!
Thanks amy 💚
You have me so tempted to get one, my issue is there are so many different ones I love so for now I live through you ❤️
I didnt know that you dont have locusts in the us, theyre my absolute favorite feeder
That intro was everything
Theyr absolutely stunning. I agree
I kept hawkmoths for about a year! They are extremely difficult and require like an entire room space wise, because of their flight pattern. They also need high nectar producing plants, i used to make mock nectar and inject it into the throats of the flowers I had.
i use locust's for my T's when my gbb takes down a adult it sound like she's eating a bag of crisps lol
Haha 😆
Oh my god that's gross! 😂
Thanks for the info ma'am Kat ❤️
Watching from Philippines
Thanks for the great video!!!
Oh my god that E. murinus clip cracked me up. I assume the locust jumped but it looked like Grindler just hoofed it into her face.
Whos that mug 🤷♂️🤣
As someone who intensely dislikes roaches and crickets, but who would really really REALLY love a T- thank you!! I’m still debating what kind of T I want as my first, but knowing I can feed something like superworms (which are also more apartment building friendly… I don’t think management would like me having a colony of roaches!) is so awesome.
I mean, they're quite silent. Pretty sure you can smuggle some in.
I don't know what is happening but I don't remember any RUclips notifications for your last few vidoes. It's a rainy Saturday so I will be binging your videos.
Just a story I wanted to share with someone,. My A. chalcodes spiderling (less than a dime size) molted and I thought she was dead. I found her under her water dish pure white,
My heart "Oh no what am I going to do."
My Head "Nothing put the dish back and allow her some peace."
She's fine and more active than ever.
Glad you left her in peace buddy and shes doing well 💚
@@MrGrindlersJourney sometimes the simple choice is right.
Loved the Pokies please add them into more vids! Keep up the great work kat!!!
This was so informative! Thank you! I purchased my first tarantula this week and gave her a hornworm for her first meal; she was STOKED. Scared the hell out of me.
Great video. Loved the intro.
Great collaboration guys.
Thankyou buddy 💚
Your videos always make me laugh! 😂😂 the beginning made me chuckle
Well that solved the mystery for me. Been looking for horn worms everywhere here in the UK since watching you use them to no avail. Now I know why 😂 another great vid. Thanx
My dad is very arachnophobic but has been trying to conquer his phobia this year. Like me he's fascinated by spiders and I think he'd enjoy your channel a lot like I do!
Just wanna say i think you're really cool and I love your tarantulas already
Awesome takedowns from Mr Grindlers Creatures bit! 😂
Thankyou buddy
That barrel roll that the blonde did in the guys video was hilarious 🤣🤣
Thank you for this informative video! 🧐🤓 👩🏼🎓
Wow, that was well done! Mr. Grindler in Tarantula Kat disguise...didn't see that coming ;)
Also, how the heck does he get those Last Action Hero take-downs?! Craziness!!
Watch out Kat, this fellow may be raising the stakes for feeding vids lol!!
Another informative episode, superb content.
Thankyou buddy and I dont actually do feeding videos normally live streams for that although maybe I should do one? 🤷♂️💚
@@MrGrindlersJourney You seem to have an impressive collection of T's, thanks for sharing🕷
Thankyou buddy
That intro though!!! I enjoyed it that I had to repeat it 4 times lol
7:45 Awww, so fluffy and cute🥰 Same color as my Lucas plushie has.😂
I was very exited by the thumbnail and pro and con I super exited for the video keep up the videos love ❤️ em 😇😇😇😇 yea I heared crickets 🦗 are bad I used to only feed my Arizona blode just crickets 🦗 for over a year shes seems weird
Lol what a great intro! Awesome vid as usual ❤
Great intro haha and great info as well.
💚
that was a really well done cosplay!
Thankyou buddy 💚
Omg kat into great i love the rolling T omg wht a great takedown. Kat love your Ts takedowns
My Ts tend to do that alot 🤣💚
Meal and super worms are my favorite as well
This was great. Mr grindler is cool. I’ve been following him for a bit. It’s been nice watching the collaborations from different people. I’m in Australia so no locusts or horn gummy bear worms lol. Only have Something called woodies… not dubia or red runners. Same same though. Cool recording though. Feels like a community here with Ts. Not just RUclips Channels. Watch this space through. Just saying.
Still in class but it a new vid so class could wait
That intro was hilarious! He did look a LOT like you. Doppelgänger!
I tried my best 💚
That drag bit caught me off guard lol
I watch this bc I dont have to raise the spiders. I can watch. I love love love it. Thank u so much.
i certainly didn’t expect jumping tarantulas when i clicked on this video lol
Great video Kat! I really wish we could get those horned worms over here. Could get some awesome feeding clips with those!
Lmao at Jaden too he pulls off dressing as you too well its quite scary 🤣
Kat i felt like you was on a Exotics Lair vibe with all that hand movement girl x
recently just received my second ever tarantula!! I used to have that skeleton leg one but it died a year ago so now i have a curly hair!! She/he is very calm and EXTREMELY beautiful 🥺🥺but they kick some hair every now and then whenever i touch them when refilling their water or misting time. I really wanted to find a non expensive and easy to find meal for tarantulas so thanks for the information!!
The introooo😂😂 cute tarantula tho
Glad you liked it 💚
mr grindlers is very cute ^^
I love using dubia but they also have a habit of borrowing or not moving when they are first put into the Ts enclosure
The kid Tried “gummie worms” with her Ts this week based you your videos and some hated them and at least one went nutty for it. She has since had a couple more lol :)
That intro threw me off but made me laugh😂😊😂😂
The beginning.... DEAD 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Glad you liked it 💚
Love the intro 🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao 😂 the intro was beautiful!
Glad you liked it 💚
1:50 IN THE MORNING HERE IN PHILIPPINES I LOVED IT😍🔥 I HOPE I HAVE A TARANTULA LIKE THAT SO I CAN START MY VLOG TOO HERE IN PHILIPPINES 🔥❤️
I use two different types of roaches for feeding; dubias and Cuban lobster roaches. The lobster roaches spawn quite emensely, and their nymphs are small enough for most of the tiniest slings. There was a mother redrunner in the shipment of lobster roaches, and it has layed an ootheca, so that will be a nice 3rd roach for feeding. I pretty much quit on crickets and mealworms. Crickets are low yield, and they are tricky to breed. Roaches are better for both reasons. You don’t need to bother cleaning out the roach excrement/frass as the nymphs feed on it for nutrients. So long as it doesn’t get moldy, it is fine.
Nightcrawlers is my personal favourite besides cochroaches
Pahahahahahahaha that intro! Gotta love Jadey 🖤
watching many many videos before I start having T's. I have blonds right outside my front door (wild) and enjoy watching them come out as it gets dark out. I may catch/keep a wild one if I am able to find one that is small (?)
HEEEY KAT!!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH 🖤🕷🖤🕷🖤🕷 I'm SOO excited to get my VERY first tarantula its gonna be my baby lol 🖤🕷🖤 very spoiled 🖤🕷💁🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
I am terrible at catching crickets with the pincer. I either squash them or they escape.
I have an enclosure with a slide door (up and down, not side to side) so I can easily tip one or two cricks into my Legsi's enclosure.
:D That was great, awesome intro! *ahhh I can't see* --- so0 funny
The partners glasses was messing with me 🤣
Really good video 👍
I feed my ts crickets (btw if u house them the right way they do live a long time and that's why i like them) and i have tried superworms many times but somehow my ts - dont really like them? Most of them wont eat superworms at all, and the rest are just really hesitant. Even one of my a. geniculatas wont eat them 😐 But the other takes superworms just fine. It's just a bit weird for so many of them to be so picky.
is there a video on how to raise/keep the differents options?
My mom used to do agricultural research involving a horn worm called a tobacco bud worm. Occasionally, she would bring the caterpillars home for me to take care of.
Could you show us how you make holes in your plastic containers. How many holes you should have and how to make very small holes?
Can I feed them like giant roaches or moths, dead mice, and normal worms and caterpillars
I use Locust, crickets., superworms,and the smaller slings LOVE wax worms which I love as they cant hurt my T. Not keen to try roaches as hear they can breed and infest really easily? Don't like mealworms as they stink and pupate really quick. Wish could get blue worms in the UKx
I can certainly agree to T's having preferred meals, my Female Avic (Guyana Pinktoe) Refuses to eat anything but Wax worms.
Those arboreal enclosures are a pain in the butt
Hey kat I'm about to get some crickets do you know what the best size would be for a adult female Phiddipus auddex. (Bold Jumping Spider) Thanks, i love ur channel and enjoy ur day.
You should get a peacock spider I'll look around and see if I can find any for you but they are beautiful
I do crickets because they’re at a bait shop near me and I don’t have any Dubias near me. I don’t really like mealworms because it’s hard to get them out if they burrow underground. I also don’t know if any hornworms live around me and i don’t know if they are native or in any stores
2 comment kat is the best you are the best and amazing I'm thinking of buying you face mask 👍💯
His tarantulas take downs are so cool. His Ts actively hunt down the prey and virtually pounce on them. Has he trained them this way, or are they just a type that hunts that way?
Blueeeeee Slurrrpiiieeeees!!!!!!
Hi kat can you give me some advice about getting a phidippus regius I’ve been trying for a while but can’t get my hands on any?? Thanks 😊
Do you ever gut load your feeders? I have seen exotics lair does that, but is it a necessary process or just an added benefit for the Ts?
My favorite is still the red runner. Your pal probably tries to grab them with tongs. Not me! I take a vial that slings come in and a paint brush to do the job. I simply direct the roach into the vial with the paint brush. It may take me three or four tries, but it always works. Then I dump the roach out in front of the T. If it escapes, I let out a maniacal laugh and redirect the Roach toward the T with my paint brush. I have way too much fun doing that. I am ashamed to say I haven't tried superworms yet. Should I try them dipped in hot sauce?
Best idea ever!
i literally just grab them with my fingers and throw them in like that
So personally I don’t like the upside down amac for pokies I just use them right side up it’s a lot easier to feed them and deal with them that way .
My T loves mealworms lol she is a picky one
i live near a reptile shop so i just take a stroll every weekend and spend 11 cents to feed my little sling, i give it baby crickets
What size AMAC is your P. Cambrisgei housed in?
Do you crush the heads of the superworms before you feed them to your t's? I wasn't sure if that was a thing that everybody did or not.
That intro broke me hahaha
Is there any other foods that I can give every time?
Wow. Almost like looking at a mirror. Or Homer and Krusty.
Surprise that he came to the states, let alone Missouri.
I haven't been to the States yet mate, although next year I am but I only dress up for Kat 🤣
I'm a novice and have two rose hair tarantulas. All I've ever fed them are crickets. Is it best to vary their diet? Would that make them happier and more healthy? Also, if you feed them larger prey like the horn worms you showed, do you feed them less frequently?