Invertebrate Care: Tarantulas, Mantids and Feeder Colonies
Keeping tarantulas and mantids, and breeding healthy feeder insects.
- Level
- Beginner
- Study time
- TBC
- Modules
- 0
- Lessons
- 0
- Assessment
- Module quizzes · graded certificate
- Version
- v1.0
What you'll learn
- ✓Set up and maintain enclosures for tarantulas and mantids
- ✓Understand moulting and how to support it
- ✓Work safely with invertebrates
- ✓Breed and maintain healthy feeder insect colonies
- ✓Apply good welfare and hygiene to invertebrate care
About this course
Invertebrates are a growing part of the hobby and essential to feeding many reptiles. This course covers keeping tarantulas and praying mantids, moulting, handling and safety, and setting up and maintaining feeder insect colonies such as crickets, locusts, roaches and mealworms, with good welfare and hygiene throughout.
Cover photo: A Mexican red-knee tarantula. Photo: George Chernilevsky, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Course content
0 modules · 0 lessons · study time TBC
Who this course is for
- Keepers interested in invertebrates
- Reptile keepers who want to breed their own feeders
- Shop staff who care for livefood
Assessment & certificate
Each module ends with a quiz that is marked automatically: multiple-choice questions plus a written section where you explain what you've learned in your own words. You can take each quiz once and cannot retake it, and you'll see the correct answer to any question you got wrong.
When you've completed every module, you receive a certificate of completion with a unique verification code, graded on your average score across all the module quizzes:
- PassUp to 69%
- Merit70–79%
- Distinction80–100%
Everyone who completes every module receives a certificate.
This certificate confirms completion of an online, theory-based course and a passed online assessment. It is not an accredited qualification and does not certify practical competence.