Hi Becky,
These leopard geckos are not full grown, so adult standards most people use don't
apply just yet. A better indicator for you is physical body condition. Do they
look filled out? Does their pelvis stick out?
Eyes sunken? Eyes open and alert upon stimulation? Tail fat? These are all
indicators. Now that you have their weights, I would convert them to grams and
keep track, weigh about twice monthly. Then you can see trends up or down and that
is of value.
Other indicators of good health are: appetite and poop. Are they eating and
actively hunting their food? Do their poops look firm yet not dried out? If you
start seeing undigested food then you know you have a problem. Runny or green poop
is also an indicator of a problem.
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
GGA lifetime member
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 01/07/2001 7:19:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << on 1/7/01 5:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I measured the two geckos using Steve's method of nose to vent: The
> >> female is about 4 1/2" and weighs 1 pound 2 oz. The male is about 4 1/4"
> >> and weighs 1 pound 1 oz.
>
>
> 1 pound? are you including the weight of a cage or something or did you put
> the animal loose on the scale?
>
> Let's think about this. it takes 4 sticks of butter, each about 4 inches
> long, to equal one pound. Is that how big around your leopard geckos are...
> 4 sticks of butter stuck together? (granted, bone does weigh a bit more
> than butter... as does muscle... but still...)
>
> or maybe these are leopard tortoises. ;-)
>
> pounds just seems like a lot of weight for a leopard gecko. I suppose it is
> possible if they are really plump and extremely large. But I suspect my box
> turtle doesn't weigh much more than that. My tokay might be close though,
> but I've never weighed him.
>
> I've never weighed my captives before. Is this something a lot of folks do?
> I've weighed many things in the wild. But never bothered for captives. I
> don't even weigh myself.
>
> Greg
> >>
> Greg and everyone else,
> Humble Pie is what I must eat -- after reading Greg's post above, I
> went downstairs and asked my husband clarification on his scale -- yes, I was
> wrong!!! The geckos only weight 1.2 oz and 1.1 oz -- ooh silly me. I'm
> sorry.
>
> Now, with those more realistic measurements, do they seem low for
> leopard geckos? Having never seen a leopard gecko before a month or so
> ago, I just don't want anything to happen to them. (PS - I had a dream the
> other night that one of them died - it was a terrible dream.)
>
> Thanks again for everyones' replies and help. I've looked at some of
> the photographs on the gekkota home page and there are some pretty animals
> there.
>
> Becky
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