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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ilovebrachys" data-source="post: 186324" data-attributes="member: 28710">If you feed up a T so it gets huge all you do is cause a longer moult cycle as it will be in premoult and refuse food for a longer time as you have over fed it - it's not good for Ts to be overfed and fat asit may cause issues when they do actually moult, the aim is to have a T with a reasonable sized healthy abdomen and food offered on a less frequent basis if adult - There is no benefit to making Ts really fat and it in no way can make them grow quicker as there are other environmental factors that pre determine this for example temperature, the sex of the T ect <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>