Beardie size question

[acpart]

When I adopted my beardie last summer as a 4 year old (the beardie, not me) I was told by the people I got her from that she was on the small size since she'd been neglected as a young dragon by her original owners. She weighed in at about 350 grams then but I didn't measure her. Now she is 540 grams and is 17" long from tip to tip. Everyone who sees her, including people who own beardies of their own comment on how big she is. How does this size and weight fit in with the average adult female beardie?

Aliza

 

[dragonaddict]

Are you sure its only 17 inches? I have a 16 inch female who is 344 grams and she looks like she is going to explode she is so tubby.
Almost all of my dragons are overweight and they do not have that length to size ratio. She must be a tubby one
My German Giant Fozzie is 21 inches and he is only 612 grams and if he gets any bigger he will be obese and a health risk.
Post a picture of her. I love chubby dragons and she definitely would be chubby with those stats.
It also depends on there body to tail ratio. I know Fozzie has a shorter stockier body but Stevie is all body and a shorter tail. She holds more weight because she is mostly torso.

 

[acpart]

I used my little pocket tape measure, but I'll try tomorrow with a string and then measure that. SHe's definitely chunky, but doesn't look overweight to me and she certainly has a lot of energy --she runs around when I put her on the floor. Tonight I let her out for awhile after work (I close the rooms she's in off so the cats can't get in). After awhile I didn't hear her running around and couldn't find her. She decided it was bedtime and crawled under one of the cage stands and went to sleep.

I think the pictures I've posted are from above so it's hard to tell how she looks. Once I get Passover this weekend done with I'll take more pictures.

Aliza

 

[acpart]

I measured her again and she's 18" at the most. There is a picture of her here: http://www.geckoforums.net/showthread.php?t=11690

This was taken last summer when she was nearer to 400 or 425 grams. I don't think she looks a whole lot different ---maybe a big more of a belly.

Aliza

 

[dragonaddict]

She is a cutie and looks good in that picture. Nothing wrong with a healthy beardie. All of my beardies have what I call beardie boobs.
They are all a little on the pudgy side so she should be fine.

 

[Baker14]

I would say that that is a normal size for a beardie of that age. She looks to be healthy, not overweight, even though you said that pic was taken last summer. Any recent pics? my 10 month old male beardie is 17-18 inches and 380 grams.