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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spiderengineer" data-source="post: 10635" data-attributes="member: 515"><p>its possible you receive the T right after a molt so maybe it started filling out its new body if that make sense. another way to think of it is that when they molt they  end up  reduce in mass but gain in size. once the start feeding again the fill up with mass again (think like a ballon in a sense) and does look bigger since you got it.</p></blockquote><p></p>