What do tarantulas eat?

[Zach K]

What do tarantulas eat? What should I feed them and how often should I feed them??

[Jerry45]

Generally, tarantulas eat crickets, pretty easy to take care of.

[GanoPap]

Tarantulas generally eat insects, they are ambush predators and usually will wait for a cricket to come near them before pouncing on them.

[GanoPap]

On 2/1/2024 at 9:36 PM, Zach K said:

What do tarantulas eat? What should I feed them and how often should I feed them??

You're going to want to feed them around two crickets a week. You don't want them to over eat and become obese.

[John447]

Tarantulas are usually insectivores, meaning they eat only insects. This is due to how they evolved. In captivity you will usually feed your tarantula around two crickets per week or a couple of dubia roaches per week.

Over feeding is a pretty big issue in the tarantula keeping world due to how easy they can overeat. They will usually eat anything they can as they are opportunistic feeders.

You can read more about Tarantulas on their Wikipedia page.

[John447]

Here's an interesting video that involves feeding a bunch of different tarantulas:

 

[John447]

Also, you should vote if you haven't already if you would rather have a tarantula or scorpion here: