Ok this is just info from my personal collection and I cant really comment on what is the norm since I dont know. I just measured my yearling (15 months or so) and she measured out to about 38" my May birth baby measured to 20" (fairly plump, eat like champs) and my late June early August measured to 15" (just recieved a few weeks ago,healthy girth). These are all from different breeders and parents so of course there is going to be size difference at hatch and different growth rates etc. IMO I dont consider the amout of food that I give to be power feeding, but they surely aren't underfed. They all eat what I consider to be appropriate sized prey; the yearling gets one small rat a week, I just started giving the May babies two med mice a week and the 15" are getting on med/small mouse a week. I cant remember any ever missing a meal tho aside from maybee a week or possibly two because of shed. All of them are thriving and growing consistantly, tho a few I just recieved and cant judge due to the time. I'm also kind of thinking I may live on some sort of radiation as my 3 year old male is over 5'6" and still seems to be growing...?

As for cage sizing the yearling (38"is about to be upgraded, but her current cage is a rubbermaid that is 20" x 16" x 9" Not sure what I'm going to put her in tho, shes not large enough for a cage the size I built for my large male.. aprox. 45" x 24" x 18"? so I might buy a slightly larger rubbermaid and then build her one of those sometime late summer/next winter. As i was fairly unexperienced with my older male when I got him he was kept in an aquarium up until I built his new abode.. he was actually fine and seemed to do very well in it, so I would say there is no problem with aquariums aside from the obvious. I've just switched to rubbermaids as they are much easier to clean and take care of.. and a whole lot cheaper, and durable, and stackable etc etc....
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