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H_nasicus
at Thu Mar 22 17:17:43 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by H_nasicus ]
Thank you so much for your reply! You've definitely given me a lot to think about and I can most certainly say I actually learned something today. 
Two of my females have been eating with me and gaining weight like crazy, which leads me to believe they were simply underfed. However, I do have a female I acquired a couple years ago who has just never had a big appetite. Her metabolism seems faster than most in that she tends to lose weight pretty quickly if she doesn't eat (or at least she did. She didn't drop any over brumation though). But she's always been a real slow eater and it's rare that she eats all that I offer her (2 fuzzies twice a week). I will be sad if she never reaches breeding weight, but I'd rather keep her as a pet or for education than risk killing her by making her breed when she isn't able too.
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RE: Breeding underweight females? - H_nasicus, Thu Mar 22 17:17:43 2012