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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scrible" data-source="post: 38617" data-attributes="member: 3496">My mature male P. scrofa is now going on two months without eating.  He lifts his legs up and then runs away from the feeder crickets that get close enough to touch him.  I am worried due to his age that he is near end of life and has stopped eating permanently.  Do adult male T's tend to stop eating when they are at their final life stages or am I doing something wrong?Here is a video of his behavior.  I filmed this a few minutes ago and about an hour after putting the 2 crickets in his enclosure.  This is the first attempted feeding in a week and a half.  As you can see he shows no interest in the crickets and acts as if they are bothersome. [MEDIA=youtube]8psKmuiKo1g[/MEDIA]</blockquote>