The weight of a leo?????

[lepsforlife2009]

Hi,
I was just wondering what is the average weight of a female and male leopard gecko. I just weighed all my geckos today. I was actually thinking about breeding soon. My two Tremper Females are 56g and 62g. I weighed my dads geckos too today. Is it normal for a male leopard gecko, a regular not giant strain to be 8oz That would be over 200g. We have a male that weight. What is the normal breeding weight. I would be more concerned for the females, since they would be laying the eggs and stuff.
Thanks,
JJ

 

[Leopard.Geckerz]

I sort of doubt you have a 200g gecko. No offense. Double check that one.

I've heard many times that the minimal weight for breeding females is 45g. Personally, I like to be in the 60's. Most of my ladies are in their low 70's. I have a few girls that I am letting "grow up/fill out" some more before they are bred (actually, they rae the only girls I'm breeding, just do I don';t sound like I do a lot, because I don't. My former breeder was always in the 70's for breeding, though, shes now retired) and ANYWAY haha, my girls that I'd like to get a bit bigger are high 50's and lower 60's.

So in short, my answer is, yes, you probably can breed them now, especially the 60+er but I'd just get the 50 something up a bit more. They can lose a lot of weight during breeding season.

And double check that male I think the largest tremp. giant passed away sometime when he was in the 140-150g range??? Someone correct me if I'm wrong?? And he was a giant.

 

[RampantReptiles]

45g is bare minimum and I usually breed 50g+. It depends on the female, some females dont make it to 60g so if she looks like she has a nice thick tail then it would be fine to breed 50g.

Does your scale measure in grams? It would be easier than having to convert and no errors would occur.

 

[dudders]

There was this breeder site I saw that their giant was 170 he was their record holder

 

[RampantReptiles]

Ron Trempers website
http://www.leopardgecko.com/giant-faq

show me this site that had a 170 gram leo and then we can figure out if its reliable.

 

[lepsforlife2009]

UGH!!! Looks like I have to get a new scale!!! It's is a weird scale to read. I basically don't want my females to be bred if they can't be. I want them at a good weight ya know!!! I want to make sure they are heathly and could bare eggs. I'm gonna really have to check that scale huh!!!

 

[Leopard.Geckerz]

UGH!!! Looks like I have to get a new scale!!! It's is a weird scale to read. I basically don't want my females to be bred if they can't be. I want them at a good weight ya know!!! I want to make sure they are heathly and could bare eggs. I'm gonna really have to check that scale huh!!!

Yeah, give it a double check. I don't have a super expensive scale. It's good and admirable that you want the best for your 'kids' and not just rushing into it

 

[dudders]

http://www.geckosetc.com/htm/available_trempergiant.htm please look tell me if its true! =]