What I'm seeing more and more are various lizards with different degrees of caging size (or out time) being fed the same amount of food because some caresheet says so. What you have to adjust is the amount food verses the amount of activity for most species. A tegu or cyclura for example, that is in a small cage being fed the same exact diet as an animal who is in a huge outdoor habitat will look and feel different. When my tegus are being let out alot I feed them alot---when (like when I was gone) they are being kept caged I feed them less.
This all being said---when they were little and growing (and in a nice amount of space) they were fed according to that.
The cyclura cornuta cornuta at my local zoo is being fed 3 times per week---and is in the same visual condition that the cyclura being fed each day down in GC. The cage is much too small.....god knows what the real health of the animal is---but visually---weight wise he looks to be the same.
If he were fed the way the animals elsewhere are he would be overweight...he has no roaming space.
You might begin to see a change in your monitor as he adjusts to a proper cage size---with great temps and diet. Make adjustments as you see changes
