Length-Weight Relationship

[branson]

The 'Are we feeding too much?' thread was filled with some interesting points. In the thread, I mentioned that for some fields (say fisheries science), people develop length:weight relationships for certain species. For instance, a 30" striped bass should weigh 8-10 lbs. There are also length-at-age, and weight-at-age relationships. There was some interest, so I thought I'd give it a try.

If you're interested, please provide the length, weight, and age of your ball pythons. For the sake of making it easier on me, providing it all together (i.e. don't make me read a couple of paragraphs) would be nice. With enough snakes, we should be able to figure something out. Like I said, this is just an idea I had and a couple of people expressed some interest. If it doesn't work out (e.g. not enough snakes) don't sweat it. My guess is that we're gonna have tons of variation in weight for a given length or age, and crazy wide confidence intervals, but I dunno.

I'll start it off:

Makena: 43" - 1100 g - 2 yrs

--B

[BabysMomma]

Baby: 21" - 100 g - 3 months

[bkelley02]

Would adding the sex of the snake be relevant or not?

[branson]

Sex wouldn't hurt.

[stevenkeogh]

Sex wouldn't hurt.

Haha.
Isn't there an "out of context" thread around here somewhere?
-Steven

[bad-one]

Pastel male- 1500g, 4 ft, 2- 2 1/2 years

Normal male- 1675g, 3 1/2ft, 4 years

Spider female- 110g, around 1ft , 1 1/2 months

[Bundu Boy]

The 'Are we feeding too much?' thread was filled with some interesting points. In the thread, I mentioned that for some fields (say fisheries science), people develop length:weight relationships for certain species. For instance, a 30" striped bass should weigh 8-10 lbs. There are also length-at-age, and weight-at-age relationships. There was some interest, so I thought I'd give it a try.

If you're interested, please provide the length, weight, and age of your ball pythons. For the sake of making it easier on me, providing it all together (i.e. don't make me read a couple of paragraphs) would be nice. With enough snakes, we should be able to figure something out. Like I said, this is just an idea I had and a couple of people expressed some interest. If it doesn't work out (e.g. not enough snakes) don't sweat it. My guess is that we're gonna have tons of variation in weight for a given length or age, and crazy wide confidence intervals, but I dunno.

I'll start it off:

Makena: 43" - 1100 g - 2 yrs

--B

Thanks Branson

I must mention that in the thread http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=99952 (Are we feeding too much) we are discussing what feeding regime the older ball pythons are on in order to get them to an good age (>10yrs or so).

So in particular interest are what length/weight our older balls are.

Keep sending in all age groups as we can collate all ages and see how they fit in with the older generation.

If you battle to measure your ball accurately then you can use this program - Snake Measurer http://www.serpwidgets.com/Apps/measure.html

Thanks