What size and weight is your dragon?

My spoiled dragon, Tilman, is now 7 months old, weighing in at 467 grams at 17.5 inches. He's my first dragon, so wondering if this is a normal weight to age to length ratio? Should he continue to grow still? He seems super healthy, alert and bright. Snapped a few pics of him on my boyfriend the other day, and below are his monthly weigh ins. I can't believe how fast they grow! Would be interested to hear the weight, length and age of other people's dragons!

13grams - August 23
45 grams - September 23
101 grams - October 23
212.5 grams - November 23
339.5 grams - December 23 : 6 months old
466.5 grams, 17.5" - January 23

Hi there, those are some impressive red beards there. I'm surprised some of the regulars haven't chimed in. My boys are siblings and are 20 " and about 470, the other is 21.5 " long , about 550 or so. Battery is out on my scale so I haven't weighed them very recently. Your boy , handsome as he is is getting overweight so it would be good to cut back on the feeders just as bit now while it's easier + he's still young + healthy. And yes, he should gain more length but just watch his weight. Overweight beardies will have health problems down the road.

My Darwin is 3 years old. He is about 19'' long and weighs about 549g as of last check in. Here is a somewhat recent snapshot of his growth chart. The odd numbers at the end of the year are during brumation which he just came out of.

Lol yes they are beard bros :lol: I was thinking that maybe he was getting a little chunky. He grew up on roaches from baby - about 5 months, and ever since then he's been on supers. I think I got some bad advice from a local breeder who told me that's what he uses as a staple feeder and that it's okay to feed them supers. But now I've learned that they're really high in fat! Hence his porky little belly :wink: The problem is, is my roach guy's colony died off because they were left outside by accident, so I'm waiting about a 3 more weeks until I can get him back on roaches. Then hopefully he'll thin out a bit. He's not big into greens yet, but will nibble here and there. I offer him a variety of salad everyday. The one green that he seems to absolutely LOVES is clovers! I have a little grow light, and I grow him clovers, endive, mustards, etc in there, but the clover is the only one he'll mow down. I'll do my best to cut down his buggies - maybe if he's hungry enough, he'll resort to greens!

I also take him out everyday, usually more than once, for a good amount of time. But he doesn't get much exercise because he seems to just be a snuggler. He just wants to wander and find the best spot in the blanket (usually we're on the couch) and curl up and get all cozy and just lay there for as long as I let him. He doesn't run around like crazy, like I've seen some beardies do.

Also, that chart is awesome

He is definitely quite the handsome beardie, I love his colors.

Currently I have three beardies in total, two around the same age and one thats around a year younger.

Saturn - 21 months, 21 inches, and 520 grams.
Venus - 21 months, 17 inches, 480 grams.
Neptune - 10 months, 17 inches, 310 grams.

When i first got them they were around this,
Saturn - 6 months, 15 inches, 100 grams.
Venus - 6 months, 12 inches, 98 grams.
Neptune - 4 months, 10 inches, 50 grams.

Venus
Neptune
Saturn

My Mitch wasn’t given proper care before I got him so he’s really small ( and underweight ), but I’m working on him. He’s 7-9 years old, 16-16 1/2 inches long, and about 308 grams as of Sunday.
This was Mitch about two weeks ago.

Aw, look at Mitch, he's a warrior. Been through a lot probably before you got him. All the dragons are beautiful.

He definitely is! I’m still working on his diet and tank furnishings, but it’s a lot better than it was.

VenusAndSaturn, your 3 beardies are so cute and I love their names! Looks like Venus could definitely join the red beard club :lol:

AngelsAnimals, it's so great that you rescued Mitch and are taking good care of him. He looks like a trooper, I'm sure he's much happier now and will put on weight well! I have the opposite problem, my guy's a little too spoiled and is being put on a diet! :lol:

Looks like both our beardies are going on a diet soon. I need to get Venus to loose some grams, despite her being only around 480 grams shes actually pretty heavy looking.

However maybe shes just big boned? Shes always been a little bit heavy looking from a young age.

This was her when I got her, October 18th of 2016.

And her currently being not the happiest. she really hates MVB's, but its either that or no uvb for who knows how long it takes to get the current uvb situation under control... for now its in the hands of the post office.

Peppa , 2.2 years old , 24.5 inches TTSL , 745g raised from a 5wk old 13.9g hatchling.

Her growth chart to date







Lost her brother in November to a sudden unexpected organ failure that was a berth defect that went unnoticed.

Other pets currently are
George and Mildred , brother and sister eastern bluetongue skinks , got as 2 month old babies , now 8 years old and going great.
Fluffy , adult female eastern water skink who came to me as a near dead rescue , believed about 3 years old.

4 months old at purchase from breeder @ 57g December 17th

This was a week ago. Not sure if our gains are on target with him

Aw Peppa is so cute, looks a lot like my guy, but she has a longer body. Sorry to hear about her brother

AutoXSS, your dragon is beautiful, very cool markings on the bottom of his/her tail!

Thanks!

Reading this I'm slightly concerned my one year old girl is only 15 inches and not a lot over 200g. It's been a pain getting her to eat for over a month now but she isn't noticeably losing weight (and I've had a new UV for the last couple of weeks to try and pick up her appetite) but looking at most the sizes and weights people are talking about here she seems tiny. Is there a reason she's so small?