Hello all, I just wanted to get a few comments on those of you who have seen your young bp's grow up from hatchlings.

Heres what I've noticed with my Jan '04 hatchling. She's seems to be putting on length much faster than any girth. I would say that she's relatively thin compared to other bp's, and is about to pass 35" long. She's a good weekly eater of rats, and when I first started feeding rats she seemed to gain some girth, but has seems to thin out again.

So my next thought goes out to the debate on smaller prey size more often vs. larger prey sizes spread out more. I can think of pros and cons on either side of the arguement but haven't seen any empirical evidence that one is better than the other.

So I'm assuming that they generally gain length before they get any girth on them.