After 7 days here....

Oscar on day one at my home:

on day 3:

on day 7, which is today:

What do you think?

 

[diamc]

He's so cute and sure looks proud basking.

How's his appetite doing? Have you tried a bath yet?

 

[lisa127]

His appetite is great. How is his weight looking? It looks better to me, but I'm wondering what others think.

Yes, he has had two baths since he's been here.

 

[diamc]

Great that he has a good appetite. Looks like he might have put on a little weight, do you have a scale so you can monitor it? Awesome that he's had a couple of baths already too.

He has a long body from the back of his head to the beginning of his tail, I'll bet he will fill in very nicely now that you have him. :wink:

 

[lisa127]

Yes I do have a scale. I'm not sure how well it was weighing when he first got here as the batteries were old. But when I weighed him with the old batteries when he got here he was 262 grams. I put new batteries in yesterday. When I weighed him this evening he weighed 312 grams.

 

[diamc]

That seems like a good weight. He is just too cute.

 

[lisa127]

Really? He is 4 years old and about 19 inches nose to tail tip. Isn't that still too thin?

 

[diamc]

Yes, it is too thin and he does have some filling in to do. But, if the weights were right, he has gained 50 grams already and does look a little fuller.

 

[Esther19]

He looks good. Rapid weight gain is not good. Keep feeding as you are and he'll fill out just fine.