Lolly
Weight: 105 grams (+43)
Length: 30 cm
Food: Anything and everything (medium crickets and veggies, including peas)
Toilet: Regular
Behaviour: Lolly has had an amazing continuation of her growth, now cracking the 100 gram barrier. That puts here at anything up to 20% of her adult size. We got a big surprise when we weighed her today. JT estimated about 40 grams. I estimated 50. Amazing to see that more than doubled. I won't be able to measure her with the ruler any more either. She cracked the 30 cm mark too.
The best thing to happen this month is that Lolly is now more than just eating from our hands, she now sits in my lap to do so. It started one night when had her in the feeding tray. She now knows what is in the other container at feeding time and decided that she couldn't wait. I didn't know before then, but apparently staying in the container is by choice alone. I have put carpet on the bottom of it to stop her skidding around like a dog on tiles. This gave her enough grip to jump up onto the leg of my pants and scamper straight up on to my lap. Once there, she just sat, waiting dutifully to be fed. Since then, I haven't bothered putting her in the tray much at all. She just sits on my lap and gets fed by either JT or me. Cool hey!
The best thing to happen this month is that Lolly is now more than just eating from our hands, she now sits in my lap to do so. It started one night when had her in the feeding tray. She now knows what is in the other container at feeding time and decided that she couldn't wait. I didn't know before then, but apparently staying in the container is by choice alone. I have put carpet on the bottom of it to stop her skidding around like a dog on tiles. This gave her enough grip to jump up onto the leg of my pants and scamper straight up on to my lap. Once there, she just sat, waiting dutifully to be fed. Since then, I haven't bothered putting her in the tray much at all. She just sits on my lap and gets fed by either JT or me. Cool hey!
Booster
Weight: 30 grams (+2 grams)
Length: 23 cm
Food: Always eats medium crickets and veggies (just not as much as Lolly)
Toilet: Regular
Behaviour: Booster has taken food from our hands on a few occasions now. His growth has not been great this month. He is eating consistently, however, his interest in food drops off much quicker than Lolly, which, is keeping his growth slow.
Booster also ate some peas when offered. I just took some frozen peas and left them in the fridge overnight to thaw out. This will make a good food source in case we run short. Good thing to know.
Handling of Booster has not improved greatly either. I have tried a few times and he is generally more accepting of the initial approach, but, is still very flighty when being held. I have bought a heat pack that I can warm in the microwave and sit on my lap or anywhere really that the dragons can stretch out on. Lolly is ok with it for a while, but, Booster is pretty much just as flighty. I don't think I have quite got the temperature right yet either. So more trial an error to come!
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