Hey Bill just a few questions for you . What is the length of the female pictured? How about the other female you mentioned and her weight? Was she fed all crickets or crix and fruit on alternating days? As you know I ran the same experiment a few years ago. I raised 3 on all fruit (with meat mixed in the ratio you mentioned) and 3 on all crix. My results however showed the crested on all crix were larger then the all fruit. I actually have two females now that I hatched out last year and are 8 and 7 months. They have been raised on crix only; with fruit give every other week or so. They weigh in at 46 and 37 grams. The 8 month old is a bit larger then your 11 month female and 3 months younger. Def not ready to breed though, so weight is not always the best to make the call on. How about your two leachies, have you kept track of their growth? I know we got them at the same time, although yours where about 3 months older then mine. Since magoo is my first leachie I obliviously do not have any hatchlings to compare growth rates too so I am interested in what you observed. If I remember correctly I think you where raising your leachies on the CGD, right? Magoo was on the fruit/meat for the first 3 months until I finally got him on crix. Plotted the whole thing in excel and he shot up after I cut most of the fruit out. However that could be a growth spurt thing, like I said I only have one, nothing to compare to . Right now he is 32 grams. Also didn’t you raise some baby cresteds on the CGD? How are they coming along and compare to the supplemented baby food diet? Anyway thanks for the info.

-Mike

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