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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PamCz" data-source="post: 44846" data-attributes="member: 3784">So...I was looking up some "myths" of the tarantula keeping hobby, and stumbled across the following article by none other than the Schultzes, famed arachnoculturists, and authors of the Tarantula Keeper's Guide.  I'm sure we've all heard feeding mice to our T's is a serious no-no...and that if you do it, you'll risk bad molt.  Not true!(But, having said it's not true, I still could never feed a mouse to my T.  Not even a dead one.  It's not necessary, for one, and second...I couldn't stomach the clean-up, or the smell from it 8 hours later. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /> lol...  Just thought I'd share & try to bust the myth!)<a href="http://people.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/CalciumMoltMyth.html" target="_blank">http://people.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/CalciumMoltMyth.html</a></blockquote>