How and what we feed our smallest slings
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- How and what we feed our smallest slings
As requested today we will show you how we deal with feeding fruit flies to our smallest slings, we will show a few tricks to help you get them pesky little flies into the smallest pots without losing them all over the house .
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Me too and I don’t own any tarantulas lol but I love being educated with this channel , and always the best close ups
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TH-cam has trained me so well, that when in the end when he says "and don't forget.." i immediately move to click the video away before i get commanded to "like, tweet, subscribe and donate on patreon but not before a word from our sponsor".
But then he goes and says ".. be calm, be gentle and love your spider".
Very nice channel!
We can absolutely “FLY” through…. I see what you did there.
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You are amazing Dave and it's both interesting and educational to watch your as well as sweet Camera Lady's videos! You are good ambassadors for the spider hobby and for getting people to like spiders and tarantulas 🕷! Big warm hugs 👋😊🥰❤🤗! Susanne.
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It's comforting to imagine politicians come back as meal worms.
I put my fruit flies, both the larger and the smaller golden ones, in the fridge for a while before using them as it really does help to slow them down. My tiny slings, less than 0.5cm I feed with the golden fruit flies and also put a few springtails in there too 😀
oh.... Flying... through the spiders.... Your jokes are smooth as silk.... 😳🤣😏 I'll go to bed Dave... 😂😂😂😂
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Dave, your channel is such a joy. Wish you all the best!
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Hi Dave! Thank you for sharing your beautiful spiders with us, trying to talk my husband into letting me have a spider. Not going so well lol 😂
Don’t give up😂👍
Ooh I can’t wait to find out what the secret is? I really enjoyed that video, your channel always shows great educational videos, thank you for showing us the everyday care! You two are awesome, love to you both! ❤️
I tried to watch this while getting ready for work this morning. I was almost late and missed parts of the video. That didn't work out very well so I just played the whole thing over after work. Won't do that again. Your videos demand full attention at the onset. Much anticipation till I got home. Thanks for these great videos. Those flies are a nightmare. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks my friend ❤️👍
I might suggest that once you have them in your transfer container, grab a cold pack from your freezer and place your container on that for a couple min OR pop the whole container in the freezer for a min or two, not much longer, and the FF become very lethargic but will pop back to life in short order and you will not have them running all over whilst feeding. You also have the ability to have better "portion control" LOL
This is miles away from my imagination. Awesome. I'm basically fully educated now 😂. Thank you.
Thank you Dave,
I'm off to pick up a juvenile GBB later to day, it will be my first juvenile and I'm a bit nervous about it. I have a mature, female Chillian Rose, she was fully grown when I first took her and have been looking after her for about seven years now and she is beautiful and a happy little spider 😁 hope I can keep the GGB happy too.
Love your chanel, it helps me loads x
Priceless info is what Mr Dave is giving everyone. I have raised up 8 T’s based on this great man’s suggestion’s. PLEASE make sure to subscribe and like these videos, it makes a difference. 👍
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Dave: should we tell them?
Camera Lady: **whispers** noooo
Cheeky pair you are 😵🤧🤣
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Great work once again by you Dave & of course the Camera Lady !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
16:30 “Famous last words” that made me laughhhh😂😂😂
would love to see a video dedicated to how you breed mealworms, would be super helpful even though they may be simple, everyone does them differently
I dont breed them my friend 👍
Thank you, im looking at getting a couple seladonia, but first want to do my homework, thank you for the info on this
Love the video Dave, just want to ask if you have many scorpions in your collection, I have a golden desert scorpion and an Indonesian Forrest scorpion
I don’t anymore 👍
"It's important when keeping your fruit flies..." a phrase I thought I'd never give a thumbs-up for - till now! Good on ya Dave. Thanks.
Thanks 👍
Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable working with a sling that is smaller than 1/4". It would be difficult to find in the substrate.
I helped a friend raise a T. albopilosus sling over a decade ago, using cut up mealworms at first. Eventually, as that sling reach 1" and up, it became more bold and began to tackle small crickets. Now, that person is no longer keeping it. That sling has become a stunning female (Honduran) and is part of my small collection. She never skips feeding unless in premolt.
I would definitely be willing to raise slings of my own in the future, just not super tiny ones ;)
Stay safe and thanks for sharing :)
I'm learning so much from you.
Geez you are organized! How long does it take to feed the whole lot? A hundred spiders in one box! I was biting my nails. And your new additions of 51 Brazilian jewels! but you never said what the first ones were.
Their a surprise 😂😂😂👍
Gigas? Long spinnerets and hard shell look...oh looks very friendly🙃 5:56
They are so skittish at that age lol That would have been cool if you set up the camera on a tripod pointed at them during feeding time and then you walked away and then they all come out and it turns into a feeding frenzy!
You must have an enormous amount of tarantulas and spider when you count all the sling pots and egg sacks you have. I bet feeding everyone takes some time! All the best.
It’s not as bad as you would think 😂👍
@@daveslittlebeasties well I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos Dave! Thanks for making such an amazing TH-cam channel. They knowledge you have is incredible and you come over as very personable and effortless with what your teaching /showing us. Really love your channel and it makes me happy when I see how fast you are getting subscribers. Thanks again Dave and Camera Lady!
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Wow Dave you make everything look so easy your husbandry is amazing I have seen some videos that look so award not that I am hating god yesterday I was in my laundry and see a huntsman above the door scared me that much tripped over the dog and kicked my toe lol thanks for another great video x
You are sooo cool showing/teaching us your wonderful interests. You are like a Hogwarts Professor from Harry Potter haha. You're awesome. God bless everyone. ❤🙏🥰🦆
Thank you 🤗
Coffee & T feeding video before work..Wicked good,cheers.
Morning!
This is very helpful, thank you so much! Have a good one, cheers! 👌👌👍
Such a tease with those first slings 😂😂😂😂
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Very interesting video. I can't wait to find out what the mystery spiders are. I like the stirmi, but I'm partial to the blondi. I can't get over 100 in one enclosure! Have you ever had jumping spiders? Thanks for this video. Have a great week.
I’ve had the odd one 👍
Do you have tshirts yet with your logo? Don’t recall seeing any advertisement yet…. Would love to have one, Maybe your waiting for your channel to grow larger which it will in no time
Hopefully have a website and merch in the new year 👍
I learnt a lot from this video I was surprised by the mealworms as I was under the impression they should get removed if not eaten so they don't injure the tarantula during a moult but I guess those would probably get eaten before that was to happen?
Mario worms can be a problem but I find the small ones are pretty good 👍
Thank you very much. I will be getting my first spider this spring. I am watching for my daughter to move out next month then get ready for one. My daughter is scared of spiders.
I have glued a small funnel to a sling pot, which I fill with flies using a big funnel. Easier to dispense just a couple.
I bought a Lasiodora parahybana but it was much much smaller than I thought. My psalmopoeus irminia already had some size when I got it and it was no problem to feed mealworms right at the beginning. So now I cut the mealworms in half and feed it that way, since getting a whole fruit fly colony for one sling seems a little overkill :x
Thanks for the tips with the fruit flys 😁👍‼️I always struggled with them .
Any time!
@@daveslittlebeasties I know, and that is very special Dave 👍🙂‼️
Don’t look like you have been living on fruit flys the last year Dave . 😂 another good vid mate
Ha ha... Battle of the bulge ??
thanks man!! I have been nervous to order and keep slings but I feel between you and other keepers I feel more confident to do so! I wish I had this information years ago when I tried to breed my rose hairs!!
You can do it!
Love your educational info !
I got a Madagascar roach from a pet store and a week later she had babies. Perfect feeders for what i have. My smallest is 1 and 1/2 inches.
They don’t look the the birupes simoroxigorum slings but I hope you have some as a surprise! So pretty.
Yay we got to see some babies 😊😊
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Yay I'm a early bird! Do I get the super worm?:) lol. I love feeding my jumpers fruit flies. Especially the slings. Some of them are bigger than they in fact are so the jumpers are being manhandled by a damn gnat. I have videos of this. Its very cute lmao. But fruit flies running away drives me bananas I like your method! Mine was uh.. custom to me let's say lol. Nice vid@!:)
I always put the pot of fruitflies in the fridge for 5 minutes before i poured them in. Personally i always keep small ventilation holes in sling enclosures. I rather moist more often than risking stuffy moist enviroments
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Yes that is a good tip on chilling the fruit flies before use. Kinda puts them to sleep but they are still alive. I seen that tip on youtube someplace.
@@edgufler1122 Yes exactly. It puts them down to a dorment stage when adding them into the sling enclosure. After a minute or 2 they comes up to temperature and starts moving again. The pro wuth this method is that you font have flies all over the place
@@klaskristian1 Yes when I got my very first fruit fly culture and they started breaking free from their pupae stage. I had zillions of them climbing to the top of the culture container.. I said to myself .. how am I going to remove to remove the top without hundreds of them escaping and crawling all over my desk. Ed laughs
I saw those long spinnerettes and smooth look, and immediately thought "funnel web"
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another great vid love the lil ts ...
as always thank you for the information! we appreciate you
After a bit of trial and error, I came up with my favorite way of getting the fruit flies out. Just nudge the sponge to one side and let the desired amount climb out, then cup them in a sling vial. When they climb up the sides I put the lid on. Then grab the vial with the spider in it, line them up and gently tap the fruit flies in. It really cuts down on the number of escapees. I used to get them everywhere before I started doing that haha. I've got quite the number of fruit fly eating slings.
Quite worrying, but watching this is making me hungry. 😂
Brilliant content as always Dave! Thankyou!
Frickin awesome video Dave,I constantly worry about my slings,you help me not to worry about them 😊👍
So cute 😍
Fantastic video thank you so much Mr and Mrs Dave 🥰🥰🥰
Love your videos, Dave. I have learned a lot from you.
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Very very informative!!!!!!!!
Wow, this logo panel is fire!
Really cool :)
Hi Dave hope ya days going well an what an qmzing vidoe as always keep up the good work
I’m starting to raise common earwigs as feeders for my spiders,they love them and they’re pretty simple to raise,and they are great for slings.
Cool!
I have not used those myself 👍
👏🏻👏🏻go Dave go .!!
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Nice vid 👍
Nice video Dave, feeding off fruit flies always does my head in
Great tip on the wee sponge in the fruit flys lid, I now know how ye do it withoot squashing them putting a lid back on lol
as usual quality information PROFF from the beastie point of view. great camera work from the camera lady. great video for the collection. thanks guys take care
Much appreciated!
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Those were some awesome take downs for slings, not alot of TH-camrs in the hobby show the slings feeding, so cool to see 🕷️🕸️🪱🪰
like that A. geniculata, nice way to do them flies
your videos are so relaxing ,how many spiders do you currently have ?
I have no idea. 😂👍
@@daveslittlebeasties Atta boy Dave 😂😂😂😂😂!
@@daveslittlebeasties Atta Boy Dave 🤣!
Ok, for some reason I have now watched several videos of yours. I used to be scared of spiders but a few creators I watch have helped and your videos are helping too. I now wonder if I should push myself and look for a beginner friendly spider here in Australia.... There are certainly enough spiders in my backyard....
Wow, thanks! for subbing , I would definitely try one of your friendly spiders to gain some confidence ❤️👍
I'm right there with you. I used to be a total arachnaphobe. Started watching Tarantula Kat, and The Tarantula collective, I found Dave later. He Is magnificent. Anyway, a year ago I got my first tarantula. A Tlitocatl Albipilosus, he's spicy as ever but I love the little guy. I've got 4 other spiders now. fear into fascination. Just watching them go about their buisness is wonderful. Get yourself a spider!
@@fanbid I've now watched so many of these videos I couldn't help but going on about it to my family when we got together for New Year's! Sadly we can't get any of the exotic spiders here in Australia, we are restricted to Aussie spiders only. I think I've decided on a giant bark jumping spider (Servaea incana) for my first try into the spider world. It's very cool that you are similar to me but further along in the enspideration process! I actually let a tiny little spider I found outside run over my hands yesterday. 🤯 I **never** would have done that before.
Absolutely brilliant Dave, very informative and really useful and very enjoyable, another fantastic job by yourself and camera 📷 lady Dave always a treat to watch.
Thanks George 👍❤️
You don’t worry about the mealworms killing the spider ????
No they will be fine
Love that you have a vast collection of Tarantulas Dave. I knew that P. irminia would not disappoint in feeding.. they are one of my favorites.
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Thank you for that. I love to see all your babies. It is so interesting. I can't stand it. Watching them eat and grow.
lovely way of keeping mate
I WANT ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE ONES, THE TRAP DOOR ONE, SO LOVELY
Wonderful video and information as always! I don't use fruit flies myself. I just let my slings scavenge off of prekilled roaches that have been eviscerated (I'm like the mama balfouri who catches a large dubia to feed her babies😂). I tried fruit flies 1x and my wee one (Neischnocolus sp. Panama) ran from them🤣 then I gave him a rump of roach and he took it. Then later that night 50 escaped fruit flies tried to end my life. Thanks for all you and Camera Lady do!🙂
Can be a pain to find those fruit flies. For those in the UK go into "Just for pets" (NOT Pets for homes). If you ask they can order them in for you usually on there next delivery the following week. Postage is free as its to the store and they just charge you the price they normally would off shelve (about £3 or 2 for £5). :) Poundland do the wood shaving craft bits in craft section and tubs as well as everything else needed to breed your own.
Cool video Dave 💚
I do the same with the fruit fly but but them in the fridge for ten mins before feeding they slow right down makes it easier for me lol
that's what i thought he was gonna do. i can't believe they don't fly away as he dumps them out. maybe they aren't as quick as i thought.
Awesome feeding video btw
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Dave I really have learned so much about tarantula's. I went to a science center, and they had a friendly tarantula. I asked if I could hold it, and they said yes. I always wanted to hold one. It was a pink knee. I am not afraid of spiders, and was excited to hold her. I love in Florida USA. I always wondered how you fed them. Excellent video.🕷️🕸️Cindy
Awesome video as always. Thank you for all of the great information. You probably already know this, but just in case you don't, there is a stone lost from the ring on your right hand.
When I feed my slings fruit flies I use a Frida snot sucker its in the baby aisle at any store its much like an entomologist aspirator. I suck the flies up and tap them in the sling vials. Fruit fly culture media recipes are easy to find online.
I keep hearing people about "flightless fruitflies" but the only thing close that I can find in my country are curly-wing flies.
What are the scientific names for the flightless fruitflies?
I have a little T. Seladonia sling that I wanna feed with fruitflies since she doesn't want to eat so often.
I don't know if you will see this Dave, but I'm so grateful for your content. You and other content creators have thought me so much about Tarantulas. You've especially learned me a lot about the Seladonia. I loved watching your Seladonia videos so much that I decided to get my own 😁 She's two weeks old now and absolutely adorable and gorgeous. And very adventurous 😂
Have you tried your local live food supplies or maybe even just leave some fruit out and you will have a culture in no time 👍
@@daveslittlebeasties Yeah, the only thing they have Curly-Wing flies (Musca domestica). I did get her to eat very tiny buffalo worms (or pieces of one) though.
I will try to catch them indeed, see how that will go. Though having them being able fly might become and issue but i will see how it goes.
@@DarkdragonKev You could put the flies in the fridge, which makes them slow. Or in the freezer to kill them.
They look like tiny funnelwebs with those long spinnerets.
I thought so as well
I dont know if its readily available over there but insecta slip/fluon works great for keeping fruit flies from climbing
Sometimes I wonder how loud noises, like the opening of containers, affects the various types of spiders. Do some get skittish? Or do they get pissed off at the disturbance? Pure scientific curiosity on my part and in no way critical of how you handle the "kids". No arachnids have ever had a better home life that at your establishment.
Yes it does effect them which is why we try and open them slowly so you dont get them cracking sound 👍
Hey Dave, my favorite of them all, i always look foward to your videos, so nice to layback and let Dave mind his business.. 😉👏🏽👏🏽 If i just may say this stupid little pointer, especially when it comes to slings.. or when you are coverin more then 1 or 2 Tarantulas, is to put the name of that type of spider, just somewhere on screen it helps out allot, because with slings you can guess your ass off, and you would not even come close.. i'm i right, there is not so much differents, i'm not saying wat you should do,.. 😅🤜🏽🤛🏽 dont get me wrong.. i'm a 1-armed (in the hobby) superfan.. i was there when the channel started to move.. you have a lot of younger people in your subscribers, so it's just a hint.. keep it up, and i will follow.. CHEERS DAVE AND MARVELOUS CAMERAWORK-LADY... ho is not to be forgotten‼️‼️ Much love to you both.. ‼️🤩🥰🤩‼️
Hi my friend I didn't put their names up becouse it was more about sizes and technique when feeding rater than the spiders them selves 👍
Wow. That's a lot of mouths to feed! Keeping one spider is wasteful on food though. I could only find a large pot of flies when my P. regius was due to arrive. He ate 12, I had to throw the rest!.
Nice video again Team Beastie.
I make my own....crush ripe banana...1cap full of vinegar....one pinch of yeast and add instant potatoes so it's not to wet... consistency of pudding
slices on Banana are great for fruit flies
Brilliant if not slightly hypnotic 😵💫
I'm watching this with a bandaged hand due to a bite from a domesticated animal and thinking, boy, he must be brave handling spiders...LOL How's that for irony?
Hope you feel better soon ❤️👍
I'm so curious what you say about the Nephilas you boght. I had two in my life and they had their own room. Made a hughe web. One made 5 cocoons which I gave to spider shops. One gave me a Harpactira pulchipes sling in change and she is doing very well here :-) I love your channel Dave.
My Dubias and red runners I've managed to breed. I've seen my locusts breeding, so waiting till they lay eggs. Fruit flies die quickly in the heat which I agree they do( the nick name I call all feeders is fast food) if the jumping spiders, Mantis, or tarantulas don't get them, then the cats will 😂🤣..
I rehouse my slings and tarantulas in a massive deep banker box on the floor. I've catch cups close at hand.
Good info there Dave ....
When you pulled out the communion pot of 100 and started to feed all the meal worms my mind started to wonder and try and figure out but........
Roughly....... how many beasties are occupying the small nooks and crannies of the Beastie Room ?
Curiosity got the best of me .......
Dave is the Tarantula godfather
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@@daveslittlebeasties don’t own any T’s or any invertebrates but from watching your channel I’m really interested in them now. I bet there are others like me who watch your content regular that aren’t in the hobby. Keep it up mate👍
@@jamesburton668 Thats awsome thank you so much 👍❤