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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spiderengineer" data-source="post: 10193" data-attributes="member: 515"><p>the may thing to understand is T's have slow metabolism so they can swell up pretty fast if fed a lot. that is why they are capable of going long periods of times with out eating. in the wild they may not see food for weeks or even months, but are perfectly fine. so what to take out of this is you don't need to feed your T every day. the standard is once a week and some will argue that is still to much feeding. I feed my T once every two weeks.</p></blockquote><p></p>