bayoupig5
Sub-Adult Member
This is especially, but not exclusively for @AHBD and @xp29 .
This is my fifth dragon. I have had two females previously that were raised as babies, and two other dragons that were second hand. All have passed. So now it is a good time to have a crazy baby (at least one more time).
Balzor comes from a local breeder in Kelowna, BC, Canada. He was born May 6, 2022. I brought him home on July 1,2022. Weight at the time I brought him home was 17 grams. I did not get a length. However, today at not quite 4 months old he is 94 grams and almost 13 inches, snout to tail end.
I had taken very detailed records of my first dragon's growth and eating habits. My first dragon Emmalee was a good size she was 18 inches long and a top weight 535 grams, but she was not overweight. Balzor is over 30 grams heavier and over 3 inches longer! We will see if he continues to grow this rapidly.
He is a grumpy dragon...he is always threatening to bite, and in fact leaped from one end of his viv to the other to bite me once when I was replacing his veggies. We are working on taming him everyday, and although he still threatens, he has not got a bite off again...yet, LOL. We will get there.
He is eating well, so far, and eats crickets, phoenix and some dubia. I am throwing greens in his threat pose mouth daily to ensure he gets use to eating them. 98% of the time he will eat them, and once he even ate his whole salad bowl...but only once. He is given salad daily, and has tried escarole, collard, kale, squash, apple, radicchio, arugula, raspberry and watermelon. Doing my best to ensure this one eats his veggies appropriately.
The first pic is the fist week home at about 2 months of age, the second, third and fourth pic are from this week at almost 4 months.
This is my fifth dragon. I have had two females previously that were raised as babies, and two other dragons that were second hand. All have passed. So now it is a good time to have a crazy baby (at least one more time).
Balzor comes from a local breeder in Kelowna, BC, Canada. He was born May 6, 2022. I brought him home on July 1,2022. Weight at the time I brought him home was 17 grams. I did not get a length. However, today at not quite 4 months old he is 94 grams and almost 13 inches, snout to tail end.
I had taken very detailed records of my first dragon's growth and eating habits. My first dragon Emmalee was a good size she was 18 inches long and a top weight 535 grams, but she was not overweight. Balzor is over 30 grams heavier and over 3 inches longer! We will see if he continues to grow this rapidly.
He is a grumpy dragon...he is always threatening to bite, and in fact leaped from one end of his viv to the other to bite me once when I was replacing his veggies. We are working on taming him everyday, and although he still threatens, he has not got a bite off again...yet, LOL. We will get there.
He is eating well, so far, and eats crickets, phoenix and some dubia. I am throwing greens in his threat pose mouth daily to ensure he gets use to eating them. 98% of the time he will eat them, and once he even ate his whole salad bowl...but only once. He is given salad daily, and has tried escarole, collard, kale, squash, apple, radicchio, arugula, raspberry and watermelon. Doing my best to ensure this one eats his veggies appropriately.
The first pic is the fist week home at about 2 months of age, the second, third and fourth pic are from this week at almost 4 months.