Size differences in siblings?

[Dakota]

These are the babies before the first shed, I do believe.. Is it normal for them to be different sizes?

[Bird_Brain]

I can't comment whether that is normal, but looking at the smaller one, it looks like there are some deformities.

[Dakota]

I noticed that.. his head is odd shaped..

[xxmonitorlizardxx]

The head on the smaller individual appears misshaped, the back appears indented, and the area around the base of the tail seems abnormally thin.

[Dakota]

One of my friends in Malaysia had this baby last year.

[Jeff]

If you take two random babies from any given litter, they will usually be similar in size. Many litters have a runt or two though, and sometimes you will get one or two noticeably larger than the rest. Most likely, these two are from a fairly normal litter, the small one is just the runt.

Most extremely small or premature babies look a little odd. In my experience many of them grow up normally and have no long term issues.

[Spindown]

Were they kept/fed together? I know in some groups there can be bullies that take most of the food, really causing significant growth changes from the one who gets almost no food.

[Dakota]

This is right after birth, ha..