Why you should use tongs:

[Kurt]

Ya I don't think getting bit would be fun, but does any one know if White's can get stunted and how long it takes till you can't fix it

I have been wondering that myself. I have had my White's for four years now and they are not very big. My red-eyes grow like weeds, full grown in just over a year.
It is a little cooler in the living room, where they live and it is much warmer upstairs, where the red-eyes live. Maybe that is the factor.