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 #184938


Zechriel
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 Eisa needs to bulk up, please help.

Okay,she’s adjusted to the Master Bedroom whoopee! But she’s still underweight. Vet weighed her at 95 grams and she’s a little over 2 years old! You can see in the pic, my 6 yr old is holding her! Vet said everything, heat, light, diet, suppliments, is fine that it just takes time. But it’s been 2 months and very little weight gain. She’s been shedding and though the base of her tail is nice and plump, and her spikes are starting to stand up, she’s still the size of a 6 month old, about Zero’s size. She eats 3 times a day-any suggestions to bulk her up? I make a weeks’ batch of food-Veggies=green beans and either squash or parsnip with alfalfa powder mixed in. AND greens(2 kinds mixed together) plus her calcium and vitamins. Spolied rotten!



11/19/04  2:12pm
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 #185069


Spiny-ig
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  Message To: Zechriel   In reference to Message Id: 184938


 Eisa needs to bulk up, please help.

While I have never kept green igs, the general vegetable-based diet (plus fruit) is the same for them as it is for my 2 (rhino & spiny-tail igs).

We feed our 2 year old spiny ig several greens including an organic mix of red & green leaf romaine, red & green chard, red & green oak leaf lettuce, radicchio, and frisee, and add in mustard & collard greens. we also feed 1-2 types of squash daily (generally yellow squash, acorn squash, butternut squash). Ours also loves when she gets raspberries, mango, or papaya. I’ve heard melons are good to feed, but ours doesn’t seem to like them. We have also been offering sweet potato, as it was recommended to help fatten our little one (the rhino) whom we can’t feed any fruits to yet, and the 2 yr old (spiny) likes it too...talk about spoiled...

I’d try feeding some fruits on occasion (from a recommended fruit list). If the spiny doesn’t want to eat, all have to do is break up one berry and place it on top of her greens/squash. She immediately comes down to eat and eats at least 1/2 of her greens & squash... We were worried about her after her egg laying because she was too thin, but after about a month she fattened up so much that she can barely bask on her favorite branches anymore without looking like she might fall off!

Good luck, and I hope this helps!



11/19/04  7:10pm
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 #185122


Spiny-ig
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  Message To: Spiny-ig   In reference to Message Id: 185069


 Eisa needs to bulk up, please help.

P.S.-You can see how fast the little one fattened up on her greens, sweet potato, and squash by looking at my most recent pics of her compared to the "first day or two" pics. You can no longer see a bone-line in her tail, and her belly is always fat now...



11/19/04  8:09pm
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 #185522


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  Message To: Spiny-ig   In reference to Message Id: 185122


 Eisa needs to bulk up, please help.

Hey, I will tell you what I feed my two fat little babies and it may help yours fatten up as well.....


Endive
Ecsorle
Parsnip
Parsley(this month only....its a treat)
Mango
Prickley pear
Acorn & butter nut sqaush
Green beans
Snap peas
Orka
Yucca root
Repical & Exo terra juvinale iguana pellets, they also get there food dusted with calcium six days a week and once a week its dusted with multivitamins(repical herpitive).



11/20/04  4:50pm
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 #185523


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  Message To: Spiny-ig   In reference to Message Id: 185122


 Eisa needs to bulk up, please help.

Oh and Bok choi



11/20/04  4:51pm
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 #186015


Icatchlizards
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  Message To: Leokeeper   In reference to Message Id: 185523


 Eisa needs to bulk up, please help.

dang ugly



11/21/04  1:22pm
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 #186775


Zechriel
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  Message To: Icatchlizards   In reference to Message Id: 186015


 Eisa needs to bulk up, please help.

What? I really hope you’re not making a personal remark.



11/22/04  11:09am
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 #188626


Zechriel
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  Message To: Zechriel   In reference to Message Id: 186775


 Eisa needs to bulk up, please help.

Allrighty now, I bought some Zoomed juvey pellets. The first dish went flying everywhere! So I’m gonna try mixing it into her food. She’s so tiny, i took her into a shower with me and she liked that, sitting on the shower shelf. She didn’t go buggy like she does in her bath. I’m hoping that by the time she gets big, we’ll have our house by then and will be able to let her free roam some with an open cage. happy Turkey Day everyone!!



11/25/04  8:18am
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