Is my girl overweight?

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Hello, I got my girl about 1 1/2 months ago. She is about 7 mo right now. Well, recently my sister came over and saw her belly and said that her belly was huge and she looked fat.

She gets dubia roaches everyday along w/ a nice salad of greens in the morning. I stopped feeding her twice a day because she doesnt eat any greens in the morning if I feed her dubias twice a day. She eats 2 or 3 pieces of salad and walks away, never to touch them again. She is absolutely ravenous for her roaches and hornworms though.

I also notice she doesn't really ever do anything in he viv., actually she is only active when i take her out. I would take her out more often but my boyfriend lectures me that she needs her uvb light more often.

She poops once a day, never in her viv.

Anyways, I dont think she looks over weight, but I get paranoid..
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Her belly has certainly gotten a lot bigger since i got her too, she used to have a completely flat stomach before.
She is 15 inches from head to tail and weighs 210 grams.
 

AHBD

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She looks good, still has a lot of growing to do. :) You can still offer 2 feedings of bugs a day, but on every other day reduce the amount just a bit and offer her salads.
 

EllenD

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She looks good, and do not take away her second live insect feeding. She needs tons and tons of live insect protein every single day until she is at least a year old, the greens/veggies are just a bonus if she eats them. But do not even put the salad/veggies inside her tank until after her second live insect feeding is over, as she has her major growth spurt still ahead of her (usually around 10 months old), and if you take away a live insect feeding and substitute it with greens/veggies it's going to negatively effect her growth and development. Most dragons don't even touch their greens/veggies until they are at least a year old because they know they need the live bugs, so again, if you put a salad in after her second live feeding and she eats it, then it's just a bonus, it's fine, but it's not at all necessary right now.
 

AHBD

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If she eats more veggies when the amount of live feeders is slightly reduced, she will not harm her at all. It will benefit her.
 

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pikachuomg

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:eek: glad that got sorted hehe
Thanks for the advice.
I fed her bugs twice yesterday and she pooped twice today.. Is that normal? :( i dont want her pooping so much because i cant take her out of viv to explore cuz she always poops on blankets.. ?
Also, fyi her meals by no means gets replaced by veggies, she hardly touches them.. She will only willingly eat a small amount of leaves if i feed her insects once a day. Otherwise they just sit there and she won't even eat one leaf..
 

AHBD

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Yes, some growing dragons poo twice a day, all her plumbing is working correctly. :) What you can do is when you take her out, put her on a tile floor or in a large plastic storage tote at first. Sometimes just coming out of their tank + put in a different environment stimulates them to poo. When shes on the floor, keep a large folded up section of newspaper and watch for the little but wiggle they do when they are ready to poo. Then tuck the newspaper right behind her to catch it, or at least most of it. So just follow her with the newspaper and you'll catch most of the accidents.
 

pikachuomg

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Hi thanks for the tip :) hopefully she can get her poop back on a schedule like she had when I fed her once a day.
 
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