growth question

I don't have a scale just yet. Albino male was born 8/31 and weighed 68 grams.
Is there ay way to approximate how much they will gain with each feeding?
He has eaten seven times. Small adult mice. Thanks...

Nobody?

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They all grow at different rates, so I can't give you an honest answer. However, with proper feeding you can expect close to 1,000 grams at a year old for females and 500 and up for males. That may vary on a lot of factors. The size of the meals you're feeding, the type of prey you are feeding, the frequency of feedings and your balls individual genetics. I've got two females that we born in early June (so about 4 months old) and they are both well over 300 grams. I've got a male that was born around the same time and he is a finicky eater so he is only in the 150g range. First thing is first, and I've said it a thousand times, get your ball on rats! They can eat appropriately sized rats right out of the egg. Second, you can pick up a cheap food scale at Wal-Mart for under $20. They work great.

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Originally Posted by AK907

They all grow at different rates, so I can't give you an honest answer. However, with proper feeding you can expect close to 1,000 grams at a year old for females and 500 and up for males. That may vary on a lot of factors. The size of the meals you're feeding, the type of prey you are feeding, the frequency of feedings and your balls individual genetics. I've got two females that we born in early June (so about 4 months old) and they are both well over 300 grams. I've got a male that was born around the same time and he is a finicky eater so he is only in the 150g range. First thing is first, and I've said it a thousand times, get your ball on rats! They can eat appropriately sized rats right out of the egg. Second, you can pick up a cheap food scale at Wal-Mart for under $20. They work great.

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Or get a scale on amazon for $11 dollars.

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Originally Posted by Toddnkaya

I don't have a scale just yet. Albino male was born 8/31 and weighed 68 grams.
Is there ay way to approximate how much they will gain with each feeding?
He has eaten seven times. Small adult mice. Thanks...

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Did you feed it adult mice from start? Isnt that too big?

is there a link to that scale

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Originally Posted by Maddumpling

Or get a scale on amazon for $11 dollars.

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Or that works too. :D

Also, most smoke shops have cheap scales that would work great, especially with smaller balls.

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Originally Posted by Maddumpling

Did you feed it adult mice from start? Isnt that too big?

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Most hatchlings will have no problem with small adult mice right out of the egg. We start all of our balls on rat fuzzies (comparable size to small adult mice) right out of the egg, with the rare exception of abnormally small hatchlings, which might require a rat pink.

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Originally Posted by Toddnkaya

I don't have a scale just yet. Albino male was born 8/31 and weighed 68 grams.
Is there ay way to approximate how much they will gain with each feeding?
He has eaten seven times. Small adult mice. Thanks...

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At that age I found my BP gained about 50% of what he ate in body weight. To say it another way. If I fed a 20 gram mouse the snake would gain 10 grams in body weight after eliminating the waste. This is based on records I keep. I weigh my snake and the rodents it eats and spreadsheet it.

Thanks folks! I will pick up scale within a few weeks. I did not feed the snake for the first 4 meals as I bought him at a show after his 4 meals and his sheet said small mouse.