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13 years 11 months ago #57664 by Frans Valentine
I have 76 T's, four dogs, three cats, three kids, one wife and a mother-in-law. Feeding work as follows.
T's take about three hours twice a week that is without staring at them at regular intervals because of them being in my bedroom to protect against the cold.
Dogs take 10 min a day
Cats 10 min twice a day
Kids, mother-in-law and wife 1 hour once a day.

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13 years 11 months ago #57667 by Vanessa
Replied by Vanessa on topic Re: Time spent on the hobby
After this weekend, I have about 100 T's. I have no idea how long it actually takes to feed them, since I set aside half a day for them! I feed, clean, poke around in the cages, photograph, water, etc. I feed only once a week or once every 10 days, depends on my schedule and how fat the T's look. If I have help (in the form of a willing husband or an unwilling brother in law), then it takes twice as long :lol:

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13 years 11 months ago #57708 by Cameron Torode
I've got about 13 or so. I spend about 30 minutes a day caring for them, but it will be longer when I've got to deal with the sick, injured or ones acting strange. Plus my reptiles and the constant cleaning I have to do, it can take 2 hours a day. At the moment I've got a P. ornata that is infected with some sort of parasite that takes up even more of my time, but I'm not quite confident about it's chances since the bulge by it's spinnerets has doubled in size. Anways, off topic but it generally takes me 30 minutes to an hour to get through the normal stuff with my Exotics.

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13 years 11 months ago #58057 by Laetitia Koen
Ok about 120 t's, 2 scorpions,11 leopard geckos, 1 iguana, 3 tegus (getting one more :woohoo: ) , 1 croc,1 chinese water dragon, 3 large fish,4 dogs, 15 birds, 7 amphibians,3 roach colonies ,1 huge meelworm volony and a load of monkeys.
Luckily I have help with the larger animals,when i cut fruit in the morning I also cut up food for the reptiles, roaches and worms and count out what would be fed that day. Evenings I feed reptiles and do a quick check on all t's.
Fridays after work is devoted totally to animals. I usually feed t's by judging how "plump" they look :) But as a rule anything under 4cm gets fed at least once a week.
I have no idea how much time I spend with my animals,often when feeding I have a friend or family member sitting with me so it's quality time :laugh:

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