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Feeding anxiety

PinkCreature

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Hello!!

My curly hair recently hasn't seemed too interested in feeding! I know that this can be normal but I wanted to make sure it doesn't look like it's starving, I'm still getting over all of the new T keeping worries lol
 

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Lawrence b

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It is normal for Ts to refuse food if there come up to a molt . Some Ts also stop feeding from time to time . My experience with Curly hairs is they have great feeding response and hardly ever refuse food but will refuse food when coming up to molt . Your T does not look starved to me .
 

m0lsx

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Some T's go through their whole lives not eating much. What I tend to do is offer small food, when my T's go off their food. Some T's will take smaller food & smaller uneaten live food offers less threat to my T's & it means they offered something.

My T's all get crickets, I do not offer two or more crickets, other than for my largest T's. I feed one appropriately sized cricket & if a smaller cricket is not eaten this week. They are not fed next. I thus continue to offer a smaller cricket on alternative weeks, if my T is not eating.

The only T's I do not offer food to, are those who have webbed themselves out of sight & shown no interest in food.
 

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