Text Box: Text Box: Chilean rose tarantula – Phrixotrichus (Grammostola) spatulata Tarantula menu in nature consist of almost anything that moves and is small enough to overpower even other tarantulas. Tarantulas have a very low metabolic rate and do not require as much food as we might think. An average sized adult tarantula will do fine with 6 to 8 crickets a month. Other food you could give your tarantula is pinkies (baby mice), grasshoppers, mealworms and caterpillars. Never feed ants as the ants will eat the tarantula. Fruit flies are a suggested snack for spider lings, whilst gut loaded crickets (not larger than the spider lings abdomen (opisthosoma) should be their main diet. Text Box: Return Text Box: No stock. Please keep returning to this page, we update weekly. Call the store for more info.