Spikes weight in brumation.

[Pat B]

Spike has been in brumation since the end of October....pushing 3 months. I weighed him this morning and it was 2 OUNCES! I think the grams were around 100. Is this normal? His belly was cool which didn't concern me too much. His temp has been around 65 degrees day and night. No lights on and he dug a hole in the back corner and appears to be doing fine? Anything to worry about??

 

[Germ]

2 oz is only 57g, this does not sound accurate . Does he appear to have lost any significant amount of weight since he started his brumation? He did start brumating much earlier than most ...

 

[Pat B]

He was only about 10 months when he decided to go into his 'winter sleep'. Surprised me as I had read it is unusual for a beardie less than a year. But....as you know....Spike is cut from a different cloth and has an attitude!! I don't remember what he weighed when he went to sleep....can't find my notes. I will weigh him again....maybe tomorrow. I used a Walmart kitchen scale....maybe that is the problem!

 

[Germ]

That is all I use, too. This is the one that I use ...

Just an 'Itty-Bitty' Baby lol --

756g=26oz=1.6lb

 

[Pat B]

Mine is not digitsl....That is probably the problem!!

 

[Pat B]

Geez-o-pete! That must be Vasuki you are showing off!! LOL!! He is not a chunky monkey he is a chunk gorilla!!

 

[Pat B]

Hey Germ....I read the directions on the box and I did weigh him wrong!! DUH!! So i re-weighed the little boy with and attitude and he is about 8 ounces. That would make him about 450g? That is still tiny for a year old beardie! I am hoping when he decides to wake him he will have a voracious appetite and eat everything I give him!!

 

[Germ]

8 oz is 227g

The pic is not of Vasuki, but of Vasuki, Falkor & Saphira's Mom, Sandy being weighed. Both Sandy & Dinah, females, would break the 700g mark & were 20+" long.

Hope he wakes soon for you.

 

[Pat B]

Is the weight OK considering he is in brumation? He didn't like being re-weighed this morning....he opened his mouth which he rarely does....

 

[Germ]

If that was around the weight that he started brumating at, or if you didn't weigh him before, if he does not appear to have lost a drastic amount of weight since, he should be just fine.

 

[gilliesexotics]

Hi Pat, I would venture to say your kid is ok. 227g is a good weight for a average young adult. Like germ said, "If that was around the weight that he started brumating at, or if you didn't weigh him before, if he does not appear to have lost a drastic amount of weight since, he should be just fine."

Germs girl is just a beast. A 20+ inch, 736 gram female without eggs is a monster female. Definitely not typical Typical healthy adult females weigh right around 350 on the small side and 450 grams on the average side. It not to uncommon for 500- 600 grams and at this weight would typically be classified as a large female.