I hope you aren’t confusing fast growth and accelerated growth.


I want to explain this so all can understand, all I do is to provide my lizards with optimum temps and
humidity this accelerates there metabolism and therefore they feed and drink a lot more.
The danger is if you as a provider do not provide enough.

You see most keepers will once in a while skip a feeding or 2 without any adverse consequence, but with a faster metabolising lizard doing this can kill him. Fast metabolising lizards need energy food more and more often, they can feed many times more then other lizards of the same specie, they will grow many times faster too, this is safe and has no side effects whatsoever if you provide. Lizards kept this way will produce many clutches every year and live longer then most lizards you know.


Now a word about accelerated growth, this is about achieving faster growth via hormones and other proteins, this practise is unhealthy and dangerous, animals grown this way do not look healthy, they are mostly obese and do not reproduce, there life expectancies is poor.

Pet shops sell extra large mealworms that are the size of super worms but have been grown on hormones, stay away from this junk food or any other types of food that advertise super growth.


My husbandry is a healthy husbandry, but you must commit to your lizards if you wish for them to perform, my lizards perform as nature intended them to, in favourable weather wild lizards are capable of multiclutching continuously, however mother nature is not always favourable to lizards, so they adapted ways to shut down production until better days.

In captivity we are the providers and can allow them better options, if we run out of food we can also lower the temps and let them shut down if we what.

If this isn’t clear for anyone pleas say so, its important for me that all understand the implication we as keepers have to assume.

Rgds

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