Dragon Diary - 22/05/2010

Weigh in day today.  Both Dragons are looking really good and healthy.  Lolly in particular (of course) is growing out of sight!

I started measuring their size from the base of their tails today.  From what I can see and have read, that is about half their size, so the measurements I put in here will be double the length from the tip of their tails to their base.  Another thing to keep in mind is that the figures are bigger because I didn't get to weigh and measure last week, so we are counting two weeks worth.

Lolly


Weight: 34 grams! (+9)
Length: 25 cm (+4)
Food: 6 medium crickets
Toilet: Yes
Behaviour: Lolly was enthusiastic about her food as usual.  I am trying to limit her a little to give Booster a chance to catch up.  I am doing this by giving her only as much as Booster gets.  He usually loses interest after a while now we have gone to the larger crickets, so that's how many Lolly gets.  At least she gets that and usually one more as Booster will leave one as he loses interest and Lolly will find it pretty quickly when I put her back in the Den :-).

She was great to handle again today.  I walked around the house a little with her in my hand and on my shirt.  She was quite calm and collected.  She has shed a lot more and has a nice sandy coloured tinge to her on her new skin.


Booster


Weight: 17 grams (+3)
Length: 23 cm
Food: 6 medium crickets
Toilet: Yes
Behaviour: Booster was hard to catch for his weigh in today, but, once caught he was the most comfortable being handled that I have ever seen him.  So much so, that I let the girls have a pat while I held him and he remained calm throughout.  He didn't even scurry when I picked him out of the weigh in box.  So I was able to return him to the Den settled and he was ready to feed straight away after Lolly's weigh in.

Interestingly, Booster is not much shorter than Lolly.  At least, not as much as I would have thought.  She certainly has some size on him as can be seen in their weigh in figures.  He is half her weight now.  She put on three times the weight he did in the last two weeks.  It makes me wonder if Booster is the girl and Lolly is the boy, as male Bearded Dragons are known to grow faster.  I am not overly concerned at this stage as Booster is still growing and is now taking food well.  As long as they don't get too disparate in size it should be all good.  If they both turn out to be males, then we will also have a problem.  But, we will cross that bridge if and when we come to it as they say.