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Is it safe to force feed a T? I have a male species I found here in California, and it has not eaten since September. I have been offering it food every two weeks since he last ate, but to no avail. I got really worried and decided to watch him while I put in a good sized cricket. What I saw got me thinking. He would try and grab the cricket, but he was so slow that he would miss when he tried to grab it. I then got really worried and decided to get him a little ticked off and put up a threat pose (Which I have never been able to do until today), while holding a cricket with some tweezers in front of his fangs. Well, I did manage to get him a little mad, and he threw up his display, and I put the cricket right between his fangs and "Whap!" He nailed the little sucker and has been happily munching on him since. Do you think it is safe to force feed him like this?