childrens python?

just picked up a childrens python not sure of sex yet taking her to the vet soon. she's a little over five months old. weighs twenty nine grams. i was wondering how fast they grow on all the care sheets i've read it says they reach a length of three and a half feet. the man at the reptile shop says they get bigger than that. is this true and if so how much bigger do they get?

So far everything i have found points to them getting to about 5 feet or possibly 6 feet max. The good news is apparently you don't need a super huge tank. Something like a 30 gallon long tank will do.....or so i have been told.

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Originally Posted by superpastel37

just picked up a childrens python not sure of sex yet taking her to the vet soon. she's a little over five months old. weighs twenty nine grams. i was wondering how fast they grow on all the care sheets i've read it says they reach a length of three and a half feet. the man at the reptile shop says they get bigger than that. is this true and if so how much bigger do they get?

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Depends on how much and how often you feed them and it depends on whether or not it's a pure childreni.

They don't get anywhere near six feet. Even a 5 footer would be a very very very large children's python.

I bred antaresia for years and my largest female childreni was probably no larger than 38".

Childrens tend to stay smaller, unless hes confused this for a spotted python which get bigger. I see a lot of pet shops confuse the two or claim them to be the same snake.

i just picked up a pair supposed to be about a year old and non related, the female is a lot smaller than the male thoi, what weight roughly are we looking at for a mature male and a mature female?

Problem with Children and Spotted is they easily hybridize so if you dont got them from reputable breeder is a big chance that they are not pure...

As Skip say Childrens over 3.5 feet are rare...

4.5-5 feet Spotted is a monster for a specie.

Pictures could help identify what you have..

im not questioning what i have, just the weight for mature adults :) i will get pics when they have settled more