well u know u have a boy. I named my greener one kermit and the brown one lump. Lump croaked back a couple times so he's a boy--but very shy. Just started to come out to feed in morning like kermit ( shouldve named her miss piggy) I asked don lisk about growth rates and if he could give me idea on how old ours are. But his were 1" in sept and now the size of ours. I just cut a 3" peice of paper to measure mine. I hope we get big ones!!! Mine have started to get their spots. Small white dots with brown around. I also heard that some breeders are going for real spotty ones. And others for ones with fewer spots. Spots are indication of age but I don't know how. I'm just going to feed them everyday, like they expect and wait for them to get "dumpy" and cut em back. I need to get to a real computer and post some Picts. I used a dangerous pebble in my terrarium, very bad, but I siliconed lumps of it together about 50 cent size. I noticed having stone over my heat pad holds more heat. As soon as spring comes I'm getting rid of all that gross moss and putting real stuff in. Tried that living moss, 3 weeks and it still looked dead.