weight and length check

[J&Rmooney]

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?

[J&Rmooney]

crickets?

[Kaorte]

Sounds just right to me!

There really is no "normal" weight or length curve based on age. They all grow at their own rates.

[unrezt]

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

[WingedWolfPsion]

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.

[unrezt]

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.

[h00blah]

did u weigh b4 or after it ate and pooped?