Healthy or Getting Too Heavy?

[oldnotdead]

My Northern Dixie is now 11.5 months old and 16.5 inches or 41.9 cm long and at times she looks pretty chubby. She eats real good and I'm wondering if I'm feeding her too much. She's outgrown my scale so I don't know her weight. I know it's not good to make them grow too fast or too big. I'm currently feeding her about every third day. What do you think, is she beginning to get a little overweight?

[reaperreptiles]

I don't think she looks over weight at all. I have a 12 month old caramel northern female she is 20.5 inches long, 725 grams and she is just a little chunky (but thats how i like my reptiles). I think she looks perfect

[Alioop]

Looks fine to me!

[Fatal_S]

She is a bit big, but that's pretty normal for this time of year IMO. Right now all my skinks are eating as much as they can and getting chubby in preparation for winter. She looks very good and healthy

[Nae]

I just want to hug her!!

[raredesign]

A good diet, and exercise outside will help regulate. She looks good though, so I wouldn't worry.

[Zach]

I love the speckles on this BTS! She looks ok to me. We have an Eastern, Enzo, who is enormous all the time. If you saw her, you'd think we were abusing her with food. She's always been huge, and gets the same food portions as everyone else!

[Adalon]

Don't Northerns normally look a little extra 'sausagey' naturally? The few I've seen were short and stocky, though I couldn't tell you what they measured.

I posted my Merauke's sizes over the past months in another thread, but he's around 21" and around 400g currently. From what I can tell he looks somewhat normal for the species, though maybe a bit not quite filled out yet since he's still kind of young. I don't know what the baseline for a Northern would be, but I'm sure the length to weight ratio is much higher.