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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Levites" data-source="post: 219494" data-attributes="member: 11901">I like your thinking.Obesity is a killer . . . whether in people or in domestic animals.I agree that tarantulas can become obese, as they don't have to flee from predators, or store body fat for hibernation while in captivity.Even so, I have--in the past--had a tendency to overfeed tarantulas as I was always concerned that they would starve to death when they went on periodic fasts.  I always worried that I did (or did not) do something detrimental to their care.My last tarantula was a Mexican Redknee that died after about 5 years.  It was probably a male (I thought I saw hooks on the pedipalps), but I still felt guilty.</blockquote>