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JackAsp View Profile	Adult weight? At eight months of age when I got her last May, Bebe didn’t even weigh 60 grams except on a full stomach. Now she’s over 400 on an EMPTY stomach, and I actually slowed her feedings down a few months ago from 5 days to 6! At this rate by the time I’ve had her one year she could be a dozen times her original weight! Yet she still looks slenderer than a real adult. Since she’s already 31 inches long, I’m figuring most of her remaining growth is going to be girth rather than length, but when I try to find info on exactly how heavy an adult female western usually is I can’t find anything. Does anybody know what the average mass actually is? Or, if not, if you’ve got an adult female and a scale, how big is yours? Use grams or ounces or pounds, I don’t mind translating. Just looking for whatever info I can get. Also, if anybody keps track of how much the food weighs, I’m curious what percentage of their body mass an adult non-breeder consumes. Right now she goes through at least ten per cent of her weight every six days and retains about fifty per cent of that after she defecates, but I know eventually I’ll have to slow her down once her metabolism changes.
03/06/08  12:19am

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