Oh thanks Em! I was hoping you'd see this thread and let me know what you think. I'm figuring his age to be around 10 months old now. Since he wasn't a little tiny baby back in August of 06 (Matt had many for sale smaller than Sprocket) and I've now had him a little over 4 months I think I'll call him 10 months and figure that's likely close enough to call it good if you think that's in the ballpark.

I'm glad he's looking good to your experienced eyes. I'm always a bit nervous with a species I've no experience with but he's a lovely thing really. I do think I'll wait for a Taylor show and pick a really nice female to go with Sprocket. Any suggestions what might be nice to mate him to? He's that lovely buckskin/tan sort of color then fires up to a really dark chocolate but has no tiger stripes or spots to speak of. I do love that large cream diamond marking on his tail. It seems to be much more pronounced the older he gets.

Okay only one question here. I've never seen Sprocket shed. Now I know that he's growing, that's obvious and I know they eat their sheds but how in the heck can I have missed every single shed? How often do they shed and how fast? Could he just be snarfing it down at night or something? He's housed near my computer now so I can keep a better eye on him (he was for awhile on the mantle in the livingroom) as I'd really enjoy seeing a shed.