Size, weight and age play a big part in deciding when an animal should breed, so the numbers are pretty relevant. You hit your recommend breeding weight in about a year (11 months, which I personally think is to young, but it varies depending on the animal ) my geckos hit it at 7 months with an all crix diet. So what, right? In your experiment and mine all animals where ready to breed with good weight at 14 months. So there is nothing wrong with any of the methods. However the geckos fed crix exclusively (which you didn’t try) did get larger. My current two females are also well on their way in showing the same results. Is being bigger better? Who knows it is two early to tell. Currently I think it is; being bigger is only going to benefit the animal especially egg laying females. In another year or so we can take a second look and see if things continue, but you got to keep them on the same diet . I am also curious to see the numbers with the CGD. Anyway thanks again for posting the info, post those leachie weights as soon as you can, I am interested if the trend is the same .

-Mike

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