For fast growing does this same thing apply? (Corn snake experiment)

[Methal]

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What this fella did was feed 3 or 4 groups of corn snakes in different ways. Small meals more often group, Big meal once a week groups, normal feeding with vitamins, and normal feeding.

What he found was that big meals once a week had the best results.

Do you think this same logic applies to tarantulas?

Also what are your thoughts on this kind of power feeding. I've heard, in fact one of the first things i ever heard about keeping Tarantulas was that power feeding is harmful to the specimens.

 

[viper69]

No I don't.

Power feeding comes from the reptile peeps who are breeders. It's been shown that such human behavior can have bad health affects on the animals development according to DVMs.

Interesting results, but he'd need to replicate it many times, identify genders etc, hardly scientific, but interesting cursory observation for an n=1.

For as long as snakes have been kept, esp with SO many breeders now, I can't believe some DVM hasn't done a controlled study on this. The debate on larger vs smaller meals, w/out & w/ vitamins has been raging on for decades.

Slings need to grow, one cannot overfeed them IMO, their job is to grow to get large.

Adults will slow down their eating. My AFs don't eat as frequently as they used to.