monster veiled

[gerhartrx]

I also fed my dude like crazy, but your guy is insane how big he is. He's even got his adult colors. This is my dude at about 6 months old:
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Okay so both of you have large a$$ veileds and I was lead to believe that my guy is around 5 months old (midget comepared to yours if I have the correct age). What is the age of my guy???

 

[VeiledChams]

either a small male, or a female.
And I wanna say female cause it looks very "feminine" is that makes sense.. does it have the big bump behind the foot? the tarsal spur?

 

[gerhartrx]

either a small male, or a female.

Yoda is a male he has a spur. Is my age wrong?

 

[Chamster]

im guessing 3 months old for your veiled gerhartrx.

 

[VeiledChams]

Chams grow at different rates (as you can see from the pictures on this thread) so maybe yours hasn't hit a growth spurt.

 

[Chamster]

i agree... but it also depends on how you feed the cham from a very young age. if you feed them constantly they will get used to it and maintain the high feeding levels and expect it every time. my guess.

 

[gerhartrx]

I hope so otherwise I will have the worlds smallest veiled.

 

[gerhartrx]

I am giving 15 feeders daily and he is there waiting every morning on his cup.

 

[Chamster]

15 FEEDERS!!!!!

i would care to know please...
(im feeding mine every other day now, he doesn't like to eat much anymore)

 

[gerhartrx]

He's a snob and will only eat 1/4 crix right now but he gobbles them all up in about ten minutes. It's hillarious the way he eats. He wraps his tail around the branch above his cup, places his hind legs on the rim and goes to town. Occasionaly he comes up for air.

 

[gerhartrx]

Maybe he is hitting his growth spurt now?

 

[VeiledChams]

wait and see

 

[Chamster]

hahahahahaha I'm trying to imagine how he would look like. imagining a hungry kid stuffing his face with spaghetti and has sauce all over his face.

mine is eating a big hornworm and several crickets daily....sometimes moths here and there or even mealworms.

 

[gerhartrx]

I wish I could get him to eat something else. I have tried reptiworm, silkies, superworms and he just leaves them and looks at me like... come on I dont eat this crap. You know what I like. So I break down and put the crix in and he goes to town.

 

[Chamster]

so they're eating slows down when they hit their growth spurt?

 

[gerhartrx]

I think it is the other way around. It speeds up when growing and slows as the growth slows.

 

[Chamster]

if thats the case then i think my guy is reaching the end of his growth spurt... his eating has slowed down a lot and his activity has increased big time. he's always running around the cage.