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Message: <blockquote data-quote="timc" data-source="post: 198307" data-attributes="member: 4054"><p>Oh for sure, it’s a great time to grow them before they shut it down for winter. Just have to be careful to not over do it, especially with Grammostola. When my pulchripes was teeny tiny I tried to fatten her up to get as many molts in as I could before it got cold. Well, her first winter (she was less than an inch still) she neither ate nor molted and I never tried “power feeding” her ever again. (Not that i was power feeding in the sense reptile keepers do it, but that’s a whole different conversation)</p></blockquote><p></p>