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weight and length check

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  • 08-30-2009, 02:00 AM
    J&Rmooney
    weight and length check
    hey guys, we weighed and measured our lil dahlia today.
    28 inches and 295g, she is 3 months old.
    how does this compare to normal?
  • 08-30-2009, 12:11 PM
    J&Rmooney
    Re: weight and length check
    crickets?
  • 08-30-2009, 12:23 PM
    Kaorte
    Re: weight and length check
    Sounds just right to me! :)

    There really is no "normal" weight or length curve based on age. They all grow at their own rates.
  • 08-30-2009, 01:40 PM
    unrezt
    Re: weight and length check
    Wow she seems huge. My guy is at least 5 months old and only 25"~ long and I doubt he is anywhere near 295g
  • 08-30-2009, 01:56 PM
    WingedWolfPsion
    Re: weight and length check
    Well, she's big for her age, but I apparently didn't take any measurements of my girls last year in November, so I can't compare directly to 3 months. lol
    I had a girl at 333 at 5 months, though.

    At that age, there are a lot of factors involved. For example, this year I had one hatchling actually emerge at a mere 34 grams. On the other end of the scale, I had one emerge at 81 grams. That's a very substantial difference, and even if both were growing at the same rate, the bigger hatchling has quite a noticeable headstart. The little one is now 54 grams, while the larger is a whopping 105, and had one meal less at weighing than she did. I think it's safe to say that differences will still be noticeable at just 3 months of age.
  • 09-03-2009, 07:04 PM
    unrezt
    Re: weight and length check
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by unrezt View Post
    Wow she seems huge. My guy is at least 5 months old and only 25"~ long and I doubt he is anywhere near 295g

    Well I finally got a scale and he weighs 200g.

    On a side note, our corn snake weighs 497g.

    Our male breeder rat weighs a whopping 502g
    Our female weighs 347g

    Iguana weighs 450g

    Our common yellow spotted salamander weighs....103g!!!!!!!!! he is just simply HUGE. I guess it makes sense considering he eats(not only eats, he mangles) everything thrown in there with him. Including fish(like a 4inch baby northern pike my sister took illegally from a mill pond), night crawlers, cicadas, bumblebees, stag beetles....lots more.


    Kinda funny, out of all of our pets, a rat weighs the most.
  • 09-03-2009, 08:40 PM
    h00blah
    Re: weight and length check
    did u weigh b4 or after it ate and pooped?
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