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how often is too often to feed
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<blockquote data-quote="Scoolman" data-source="post: 71150" data-attributes="member: 41"><p><strong>How often to feed is something you develop with each T, based on their activity level, feeding behaviors, and abdomen size. As a general rule I try to keep the abdomen about the same diameter as, or slightly bigger than, the carapace. An overly obese tarantula is is at a much higher risk of abdominal rupture in a fall.</strong></p><p><strong>Tarantulas are opportunistic feeders, if prey if present they will eat. In the wild they never know when meal is going to be available, so they will gorge at every opportunity.</strong></p><p><strong>When they stop feeding it is because of the premolt process progressing to the next level and triggering the the tarantulas biological functions to prepare for the impending molt.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scoolman, post: 71150, member: 41"] [B]How often to feed is something you develop with each T, based on their activity level, feeding behaviors, and abdomen size. As a general rule I try to keep the abdomen about the same diameter as, or slightly bigger than, the carapace. An overly obese tarantula is is at a much higher risk of abdominal rupture in a fall. Tarantulas are opportunistic feeders, if prey if present they will eat. In the wild they never know when meal is going to be available, so they will gorge at every opportunity. When they stop feeding it is because of the premolt process progressing to the next level and triggering the the tarantulas biological functions to prepare for the impending molt.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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