They're usually ready to eat after a shed. In nature they wouldn't hunt at all while in a moult, so by design they're ready to rock once that skin comes off. I never handle mine during the moulting process, so I usually like to get a day or two of handling in before they go out of commission again with a full belly, but that's just me
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