Random question...

Are some ball pythons unable to get to 1500 grams due to genetics?

I haven't heard that... Would be interesting to see the outcome if this thread

Some sure take a lot longer to get to that point, genitics definitely play a roll.
I have a 08 Female that is only up to 1,400 gr, and I have a Female that was hatched in 2011 that is almost 2,000 gr.

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Originally Posted by R&DP

I have a Female that was hatched in 2011 that is almost 2,000 gr.

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O.O is that genetic??? I'll take a few snakes from that bloodline!
What morph is she?

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

O.O is that genetic??? I'll take a few snakes from that bloodline!
What morph is she?

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Het Red Axantic. Her mother is also a beast :snake:
This is a old picture, she is much larger now.
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/o...thics008-1.jpg

Cheerio, the runt cinny girl that Mike Cavanaugh has, started out so tiny it was pitiful. Most of us thought she would not survive.

But now ? She's a massive female who dwarfs her "normal" sibling. The thread about her is around here somewhere. I believe she was around 1600 grams at 15 months old ? Something like that.

So yes, they grow at very different rates. I have a pair of het pied girls, not related, they were within 100 grams of each other for months. Then suddenly, one stopped eating and the other jumped way ahead, then they reversed themselves. Finally they got their acts together and are only separated by around 300 grams or so again.

Gale