Caesar progression thread.

[Reinz]

Funny, that is what I did originally.

At first I skipped the rubber bowl because of your same reasons. But after the SS bowl tipped about the eight or ninth time I just had to yank it out. But before that, I bought the rubber bowl after about the 2nd tipping of the SS bowl, but I put it outside in the sun for about 2weeks. It helped a tad, but not as much as I had hoped. Then I scrubbed the rubber bowl like a madman.

BTW, I'm mot trying to sell you on the rubber one at all. Just going through my thought processes.

[Sauzo]

Haha, yeah if she tips it, I'll probably just go back to her dish tub.

[Reinz]

I'm sure the tub will work fine IF she decides to even use it.

[Sauzo]

Lol yeah. So far nobody seems thrilled about sitting in their bowls. The seem to like to sit on the rim though. Caesar is in shed so he hasn't come out of his hide in days lol.

[Sauzo]

Well Caesar shed a few days ago and I decided to measure him. He is now about 5'. He is growing like a weed. He was about 2' back on Oct 10th when I got him. Now just over 3 months later he is about 5'. That's like a foot a month!! He is as long as Vic is now and she is almost 3 years old where as Caesar is 8 months old today Heck at this rate, Caesar is going to need a T25 before Vic will lol.

[Reinz]

Man that is an incredible rate of growth! That must be fun watching him grow right before your eyes.

[Sauzo]

Man that is an incredible rate of growth! That must be fun watching him grow right before your eyes.

Honestly its kind of shocking. I mean it's like every time I take him out 'play', he is longer lol. Good thing is so easy going. Heck even after his escape, when I found him under the chair curled up sleeping, I was able to reach down just scoop him up and he just stayed in his coil and looked at me like 'what's all the excitement about?'

I hope he stays under 10' lol.

[Sauzo]

Well today was feeding for pretty much everyone so I got Caesar a medium rat. He went bananas when he smelled rats. I had one of his doors open to try and drop some humidity since I just changed his ReptiChips. I totally forgot I had his door open and I went down the line feeding Luna, then Allie and after I gave Allie her rat, I turned around and ran into Caesar with my arm lol. The cage stack is next to Allie and Lunas table and Caesar had stretched about halfway out to see where his rat was lol. I'm glad he didn't bite my arm when I ran into him. He just looked at me haha. So I went and got him a medium rat and he easily polished that off. Then he went and sat on top of his warm hide and watched me feed the others. Then when he saw he wasn't getting more, he went into his cool hide and went to sleep I'm guessing as that was the last I saw of him lol. So bottom line, guess fatty is up to medium rats now. Left a nice lump in him and seemed to fill him up as he wasn't pacing around the front of the cage, just looking out the front lol. Cant believe he is up to Vic's size and Vic's size food at only 8 months old today.

[CloudtheBoa]

At the rate he's going I think he could possibly reach/exceed 10' in all honesty. He's far outstripped River's growth and she's almost 8' now.

Retics definitely love their food. I have River on colossals now and they leave a colossal lump, but rats don't seem to bog her down as much as rabbits because she's still as enthusiastic as ever. The growth spurt of just over half a foot in 2-3 months probably has a bit to do with that too though...she's thinned out once again. Haha. Then she'll get thick for awhile and then explode in length. >.>


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[jmcrook]

Phyllis seems to be growing at a similar rate to when she's was 5-7 months old but i think it just seems slower now that she's around 6' and three inches of growth now looks like far less than it did when she was 3-3.5' long.
She's grown about 4+ feet in 10 months. If she does that again in her second year she would hit 10'.
I've heard from some people that SD retics can reach 10-12 feet with heavy feeding but I feel like that's the extreme end of the possible size range. I'm still guessing Phyllis will reach a solid 8.5' give or take. She does seem to be slowing down a tad but I've also been feeding a bit lighter. I have no doubt that she could take a large rat at this point but I've just decided that she doesn't need it. Probably contributes to her slightly slower growth. She pushes at her cage equally as wildly with any feeding schedule she's had since October I think. When she does end up needing large rats sooner than later I'll probably shoot for 8-10 day feeding schedules and see how she deals.
Bonus pic of her being a lazy lump under her heat panel tonight


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