How and what we feed our smallest slings 

RU-vid 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!

I love Dave's Little Beasties ♥️

We can absolutely “FLY” through…. I see what you did there.

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.

Dave, your channel is such a joy. Wish you all the best!

oh.... Flying... through the spiders.... Your jokes are smooth as silk.... 😳🤣😏 I'll go to bed Dave... 😂😂😂😂

It's comforting to imagine politicians come back as meal worms.

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 😂

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 😀

Great work once again by you Dave & of course the Camera Lady !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

16:30 “Famous last words” that made me laughhhh😂😂😂

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

This is miles away from my imagination. Awesome. I'm basically fully educated now 😂. Thank you.

Dave: should we tell them? Camera Lady: **whispers** noooo Cheeky pair you are 😵🤧🤣

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. 👍

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

Gigas? Long spinnerets and hard shell look...oh looks very friendly🙃 5:56

"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.

Thank you, im looking at getting a couple seladonia, but first want to do my homework, thank you for the info on this

I'm learning so much from you.

Such a tease with those first slings 😂😂😂😂

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

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 :)

Coffee & T feeding video before work..Wicked good,cheers.

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

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

This is very helpful, thank you so much! Have a good one, cheers! 👌👌👍

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.

Love your educational info !

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.

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. ❤🙏🥰🦆

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.

I saw those long spinnerettes and smooth look, and immediately thought "funnel web"

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.

Yay we got to see some babies 😊😊 👍👍

Thanks for the tips with the fruit flys 😁👍‼️I always struggled with them .

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.

Don’t look like you have been living on fruit flys the last year Dave . 😂 another good vid mate

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

Quite worrying, but watching this is making me hungry. 😂

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 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!!

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?

They don’t look the the birupes simoroxigorum slings but I hope you have some as a surprise! So pretty.

Brilliant content as always Dave! Thankyou!

Wow, this logo panel is fire! Really cool :)

Nice video Dave, feeding off fruit flies always does my head in

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.

Frickin awesome video Dave,I constantly worry about my slings,you help me not to worry about them 😊👍

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@!:)

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

Hi Dave hope ya days going well an what an qmzing vidoe as always keep up the good work

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.

another great vid love the lil ts ...

Those were some awesome take downs for slings, not alot of RU-vidrs in the hobby show the slings feeding, so cool to see 🕷️🕸️🪱🪰

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

👏🏻👏🏻go Dave go .!!

like that A. geniculata, nice way to do them flies

They look like tiny funnelwebs with those long spinnerets.

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.

Yayyy

Fantastic video thank you so much Mr and Mrs Dave 🥰🥰🥰

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

Fantastic Dave..x🕷❤️

your videos are so relaxing ,how many spiders do you currently have ?

Hmm... if I were to guess, I'd say they look like baby funnel web spiders.

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!🙂

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....

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.

as always thank you for the information! we appreciate you

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.

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?

Very very informative!!!!!!!!

You don’t worry about the mealworms killing the spider ????

Love your videos, Dave. I have learned a lot from you.

I dont know if its readily available over there but insecta slip/fluon works great for keeping fruit flies from climbing

Dave is the Tarantula godfather

Big spinnerets so are they a funnel web ?

So cute 😍

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

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.

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.

Nice vid 👍

Because I can't get fruitflies I grab a cricket by the leg and it detaches the leg and I give it to tiny slings

Nice

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.

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 .......

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

slices on Banana are great for fruit flies

is that a funnel web sling?

Hi Dave, What happened to the pairing between the two Japanese funnel web spiders.. I seem to have missed it. Did they produce at all ??? .......... Neil.

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 😂

Amazing! And here I am worrying about feeding my 0.75" G. pulchra! hahaha

lovely way of keeping mate

Those first ones looked like the funnel webs.

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.. ‼️🤩🥰🤩‼️

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.