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varanid
at Tue Nov 17 21:28:02 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by varanid ]
I did my monthly weigh in on my kings. The Florida Kings went from 23 to 40 grams, from 16 to 30 and from 17 to 40 (thats my hypo female, NEVER seen one eat that much). Oddly the best eater is the smallest--not just in weight but length. He's visibly smaller than the other two, but he'll sure chomp down mice. He's from the same clutch so he's the same age.
The speckled kings went from 7 to 15, 7 to 13, and 9 to 16.
how long will this sort of growth continue, provided I keep feeding them when they're hungry? It's really impressive, you can nearly see them growing it seems like.
My rescue chomper has now hit 80 grams...hoping he breaks 100 next month! He's been nonstop eating, pooping and shedding since I got him. Started him off on tiny pinkies to jumpstart his metabolism and now he's on hoppers. S/he is catching up (I hope!). Maybe it'll get to near normal size. My 3 babies I got from BlueRosy are now as big as he was when I got him, and he was at least 8 or 9 months old then. *sigh* and the babies were only like a few weeks old when I got 'em in October.
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 Growth rate - varanid, Tue Nov 17 21:28:02 2009
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