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Message: <blockquote data-quote="foritxxar" data-source="post: 34560" data-attributes="member: 3393">After doing some light research on the topic, I've found that nobody really agrees about overfeeding. This does not include "powerfeeding," which entails raising temperatures to increase metabolic rates, thereby increasing feeding and growth rates; everyone agrees that powerfeeding is detrimental.I think when my two A. brocklehursti slings are mature I'll attempt to breed and use the slings to do a bit of a research project... see what the facts really are. Won't be for at least a year, though.</blockquote>