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RE: Please help me save my pets!!
Yep! I was stoked to learn they are not only food but a great source of them. I am going to use the ones I receive to feed them and try and raise the ones I don't use into beetles for reproduction so that I don't run out of food again. Since I was using crickets before they froze in the cold but from what I understand as long as the inside temperatures don't reach freezing the mealworms will not die in cooler temperatures, and will reproduce if kept in the right environment. I have already started to make a cage for reproduction of the worms once I receive them. I might even eat a few myself as I also learned they are an amazing source of protein for any human diet, at least if you are willing to eat them :P
Cool. I learned a lot today about this. Did you say you fed them a mouse ? :0
Yep! I found one that was wounded in a room I was cleaning out. I think it got crushed when I was moving things but I was able to catch it easily enough and it didn't seem mobile enough to be a danger to the spiders (mice will bite them if the spiders are not careful). I didn't get to watch them eat it fully but I left it in there overnight and the next morning there wasn't much left of it so I removed the carcass but what they left told me they had their fill. I have 2 at the moment. Would you like me to post a picture of them?
I just can't imagine what that looks like when they eat a mouse wow! I'm totally afraid of spiders, but you are helping me here :) sure post when you can!
One moment, let me upload some photos for you! Hey, I helped a friend of mine who is deathly afraid of all spiders be cured of his fear. He even let them crawl all over him! I was shocked but I am a born leader and can easily gain people's trust by just being myself. No idea why but within an hour he was holding spiders the size of his palm and letting them crawl all over him. He even called me the next day to tell me he slept better than he had in a long time and would love to come play with the spiders again. I have moved since then but I was so glad to be of help to someone who was unknown to me, scared of spiders :P
This is Bob: He is a little more Brown
This is Marley: He is a little more black.
They are both Male "Brown Tarantulas" which I caught here in Colorado. They migrate across the desert in Colorado, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and Nevada I believe. I am unsure where else you can find them but these boys I picked up off the highway as I was driving by. There were a lot of them not so lucky to be still alive. From what I learned over 80% of the males die during this time from predators, being run over, and freezing to death.