How big are the crickets?
Its been advised not to overfeed, but that leaves much to a new persons imagination.
Folk say x amount of x sized crickets a day, but advise variety in the diet.
Without working up a set menu, its a tough call.
Weighing your animal
atleast once a month to ensure steady but not excessively rapid weight gain will provide you better data. Somebody here can no doubt give you a ballpark on weight by a certain age, but any lizards weight gain/growth will depend on a few variables,
There is no exact amount you should feed its just not that simple, so you can see why weight monitoring is a sound idea.
My female yemen is also 6 months, and at last weigh in, somewhere around 90grams from memory.
I was told to stop feeding her so much or she will get egg bound. ..
An annoying vague and unspecific idea parroted by those either too lazy to explain, or who couldnt explain if they tried.
She will not necessarily become eggbound, its possible, yes, but this is extreme.
A female will make the most of abundant food supply and in turn, tend to produce more eggs than otherwise. Its exceptionally large clutches which pose the
danger of distocia (eggbinding). Producing eggs requires considerable amounts of dietry calcium and other nutrients. The more eggs produced, the greater the females demand for calcium etc becomes.
As a result, this can lead to serious deficiency . One of the common problems associated with that is metabolic bone disorder, as calcium is leached for egg production.
The problem is that with a captive diet, more food does not equate to sufficient calcium
required as a result, even with suppliments, when the lizard is producing excessive large clutches.
Therefor maintaining your female on sufficient (no weight loss) but not excessive (too fat) diet, by monitoring weight is more reliable than concerns about how many crickets/ how big.
Still have no idea what you mean regards the 'black eye'.
