How do you judge "too fat"?

[BrightReptiles]

One of our female only weighs 72 grams but still has some pretty massive bubbles behind her front legs. They almost feel like air bubbles... She seems otherwise super healthy and is a great eater and pooper, haha.

My question is, how do you decide when they are getting too fat? Like I said, weight is 72 healthy grams, but these bubbles make me question if she should be dieting.

 

[gecko4245]

I think it's not due to fat. I think is from too many vitamins.

 

[Taquiq]

They are most likely protein pouches and are normal in females.

 

[BrightReptiles]

I hope she's not to fat, I was hoping to have her at 80grams by breeding time her pouches are much larger than all the other females though.

 

[reps4life]

One of our female only weighs 72 grams but still has some pretty massive bubbles behind her front legs. They almost feel like air bubbles... She seems otherwise super healthy and is a great eater and pooper, haha.

My question is, how do you decide when they are getting too fat? Like I said, weight is 72 healthy grams, but these bubbles make me question if she should be dieting.

I am sure you don't want my opinion

 

[BrightReptiles]

I am sure you don't want my opinion

Shoot it at me, haha

 

[reps4life]

Shoot it at me, haha

I think she is a bit overweight. For a female 70 would be the limit. You know how I feel about those pockets. Oversupplementing and/or too much protein.

 

[BrightReptiles]

Yes, I know. But I wonder what is "too overweight" in reality. In humans, when suggested weight for say 5'11 and and 30 years old is 160lb (I pulled these numbers out of my dark spot but you catch my drift), would we consider that person overweight or unhealthy at 170lb (even though on paper they would be labeled overweight)? No.. how do we know where to judge "too big" in our geckos?

 

[fl_orchidslave]

It's simple enough to feed up a female to prepare for breeding, but isn't it a bit early for that at this time of year?

 

[BrightReptiles]

And actually we don't really oversupplement at all, if any we slack a bit. We only dust the crickets with multivitamin once a week, and the rest of the time they get mealworms undusted, and a bowl of calcium at all times. Our babies do get dusted worms every other feeding with calcium and a calcium dish all the time, with once a week dusted crickets.

 

[BrightReptiles]

It's simple enough to feed up a female to prepare for breeding, but isn't it a bit early for that at this time of year?

We weren't beefing her yet, we bought her as an adult and she has stayed between 70-72g at all times. We planned to start beefing everyone in late Jan /early Feb.

 

[reps4life]

Yes, I know. But I wonder what is "too overweight" in reality. In humans, when suggested weight for say 5'11 and and 30 years old is 160lb (I pulled these numbers out of my dark spot but you catch my drift), would we consider that person overweight or unhealthy at 170lb (even though on paper they would be labeled overweight)? No.. how do we know where to judge "too big" in our geckos?

Weight, size of the tail and size of the abdomen. Mealworms are a bit fatty.

 

[reps4life]

And actually we don't really oversupplement at all, if any we slack a bit. We only dust the crickets with multivitamin once a week, and the rest of the time they get mealworms undusted, and a bowl of calcium at all times. Our babies do get dusted worms every other feeding with calcium and a calcium dish all the time, with once a week dusted crickets.

Well protein must be the reason. The people that had them biopsied did say that was the final result.

She's pretty:main_yes:

 

[BrightReptiles]

Thanks