riverjop
Feather Ranch
For those of you who keep detail records of your geckos statistics, you , I am sure all ready know this. But for those of you out there who are just getting into Leopard Geckos (or other herps) This one thing may help you watch over you herps and keep a handle on just what is going on with them.
First of all if you are going to get serious about breeding and even keeping any herps you should defiantly invest in some type of scale! (I confiscated mine from my son....Hmmmm? well thats another story!) It would be best to get one that reads, not only in ounces but grams and the more it breaks the weight down in tenths or more the better!
You can either make a chart on your computer, write it out by hand or use one of the special programs out there to track all the different things you want to know. I hand write everything on a chart, then transfer it to my HERP CARE SOFTWARE.
There are many things that you may want to track, like weight, length, feeding, types of food given (I use this for controlling pinky intake), breeding, shedding, sicknesses, medications etc.....
All of these are great to know, but I especially like to track and export onto a spreadsheet there weights. By watching there weights you can tell allot about what is going on...are they losing or gaining weight or just maintaining? When you put it down on paper (or on a spreadsheet) it gives you a much better view of what is going on!
These are some examples of one of my Geckos (Wilma) and sorry for the lapse of dates but I got side tracked. You can see that during the breeding season her weight was generally in the mid sixty grams and now in the "off" season she has gained considerable weight.
4/7/2004 64
4/9/2004 62
6/2/2004 61
6/22/2004 67
7/4/2004 62
11/19/2004 103
11/24/2004 101
12/7/2004 102
12/15/2004 104
Here is one of the babies that had bout with worms, stopped eating and lost weight, was treated with Panacure & Metrozol, and began eating & gaining weight again. She has solid stools and is now eating like she should be at her age.
5/6/2004 3
5/19/2004 6
6/2/2004 10
6/22/2004 17
7/4/2004 15
7/15/2004 16
8/1/2004 17
8/12/2004 19
9/4/2004 23
9/20/2004 27
10/1/2004 29
10/14/2004 32
10/27/2004 33
11/4/2004 35
11/12/2004 36
11/19/2004 34
11/24/2004 33
12/7/2004 31
12/15/2004 33
I just think that it is an important tool in keeping your Geckos or whatever healthy
I know allot of you out there do this on a regular basis and Im sure your records are probably allot better than mine, but I thought this might be of interest for those people reading this who are either just getting into reptiles or just never really thought about it!
Any thoughts or additions would greatly be appreciated
!
Thanks for reading and next week "dissecting your geckos stool with your mothers finest silverware"
First of all if you are going to get serious about breeding and even keeping any herps you should defiantly invest in some type of scale! (I confiscated mine from my son....Hmmmm? well thats another story!) It would be best to get one that reads, not only in ounces but grams and the more it breaks the weight down in tenths or more the better!
You can either make a chart on your computer, write it out by hand or use one of the special programs out there to track all the different things you want to know. I hand write everything on a chart, then transfer it to my HERP CARE SOFTWARE.
There are many things that you may want to track, like weight, length, feeding, types of food given (I use this for controlling pinky intake), breeding, shedding, sicknesses, medications etc.....
All of these are great to know, but I especially like to track and export onto a spreadsheet there weights. By watching there weights you can tell allot about what is going on...are they losing or gaining weight or just maintaining? When you put it down on paper (or on a spreadsheet) it gives you a much better view of what is going on!
These are some examples of one of my Geckos (Wilma) and sorry for the lapse of dates but I got side tracked. You can see that during the breeding season her weight was generally in the mid sixty grams and now in the "off" season she has gained considerable weight.
4/7/2004 64
4/9/2004 62
6/2/2004 61
6/22/2004 67
7/4/2004 62
11/19/2004 103
11/24/2004 101
12/7/2004 102
12/15/2004 104
Here is one of the babies that had bout with worms, stopped eating and lost weight, was treated with Panacure & Metrozol, and began eating & gaining weight again. She has solid stools and is now eating like she should be at her age.
5/6/2004 3
5/19/2004 6
6/2/2004 10
6/22/2004 17
7/4/2004 15
7/15/2004 16
8/1/2004 17
8/12/2004 19
9/4/2004 23
9/20/2004 27
10/1/2004 29
10/14/2004 32
10/27/2004 33
11/4/2004 35
11/12/2004 36
11/19/2004 34
11/24/2004 33
12/7/2004 31
12/15/2004 33
I just think that it is an important tool in keeping your Geckos or whatever healthy
I know allot of you out there do this on a regular basis and Im sure your records are probably allot better than mine, but I thought this might be of interest for those people reading this who are either just getting into reptiles or just never really thought about it!
Any thoughts or additions would greatly be appreciated
!
Thanks for reading and next week "dissecting your geckos stool with your mothers finest silverware"
