when i was doing my research (how ever extensive an 11 year olds research can be) i bought a book that said they can live up to 25 years... it is possible to feed them pinkies and mealworms but eagor sticks with crickets... i tried giving him mealworms a couple times but i think he was afraid of them... yes i do stay up occassionally to watch him in action... the last two years i havent been able to handle him much since i go to school out of state and they dont allow pets in the dorms but when i was living here year round i played with him all the time... he was my favorite show-and-tell treasure haha

he is about three and a half inches from nose to butt... i didnt measure him when i got him but he seems to have grown but i dont expect him to grow much more since he dines on crickets.

since i've been reading around the site i've noticed that people typically provide "hides" for WTFs ... i've never had any hides in his tank or monitored the temperature come to think of it... and he's been alive for this long with no problems (knock on wood)

this place is so awesome... i used to think i was so weird because i would rather be outside playing with roley-poleys, worms, frogs, turtles ... (dont get me wrong... i played with barbies too but they came outside with me to go "bug-hunting" haha)... come to find a whole network of people who did the same thing!