Tracking the weight of a juvenile female

[Morris Reese]

How often do you weigh your juvenile BP's. Mine feeds well and seems to be growing at a good rate. She was at 132 grams on March 14th and I weighed her on April 10th and she was at 234 grams. She is eating every 5th day and seems to be doing fine. I don't think she is overweight and definitely not under. Do you monitor weight gain on your females that closely when your probably 2 1/2 - 3 years from breeding. I may be over cautious, but I'm just making sure that she and I both are ready for her first clutch.
Thanks for your input!!!

[whatsherface]

I don't see any reason to not weigh the day before each feed or every other feed, just to see how its going. I have a little chart for each snake to track weight, feedings, sheds, etc. Its just handy to have, especially if you need to see if a behavior is unusual for a specific snake.

[Morris Reese]

I don't see any reason to not weigh the day before each feed or every other feed, just to see how its going. I have a little chart for each snake to track weight, feedings, sheds, etc. Its just handy to have, especially if you need to see if a behavior is unusual for a specific snake.

Thanks! I keep an excel spreadsheet with the same things you mentioned, weight, feedings, shed, length, defecation, and mood. I also have an app that's pretty cool. Snake Keeper is the app and you can export and e-mail it to yourself to print and file.
Thanks again.

[AlexisFitzy]

I use the same app! Love it so much 😊 and I used to weigh my snakes like every week but now I only do it at the beginning of the month and at the end so I know how much they gained in a months time. But it was cool weighing them often and seeing how much there weight fluctuates.


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[sakura_noir]

All of my snakes are young and growing...as a novice keeper, I religiously track weights with HerperPro on a weekly basis, just before feeding. First the snake gets weighed, then the prey. It's cool to be able to see how each one progresses and I think it's prudent to err toward more information, just in case there are any problems and the vet needs to be called. I'm planning on breeding in the future too.


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[Mr. Misha]

In my experience, the most accurate weight is when the snake sheds and poops. So whenever mine go through a shed cycle they get weighed and the info gets entered on the iherp site.

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[sho220]

How often do you weigh your juvenile BP's.

Depends on how long you've been doing this. When I started out, I used to weigh them all the time...at least once or twice a month. Now I just do it once in a while...and mostly out of curiosity, or when I'm trying to sell them...

One exception is when they're off feed. Then I'll weigh them more often just to make sure they aren't losing too much weight...

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I honestly do not monitor weight anymore, before I used to do it prior to breeding season and post breeding season, now I just can gauge it by looking at them and know if they are ready or not.

The only time I use the scale it's for customers when they are interested in one of my animals.