Is it possible...

I don't know an awful lot about breeding BP's, and genetics has never been something I'm good at so it may be a silly question. But is it possible to have say a "runt" in a clutch of BP eggs? One that doesn't grow quite as big as usually expected...?

I got Pretzel when she was (supposedly) 4months old. Which would put her now at 19 months old. She's only just 2ft, and she just seems tiny. She eats well (weaner rats), she poos well, she sheds very well.
Munch is (supposedly) also 19 months. He's just over 3ft... So I'm not sure that they're the same age now. Pretzels deffffinitely grown since I got her and has bulked up, she used to fit in the palm of my and and now she doesn't.

Someone (a friend) suggested that perhaps, by some chance of fate, I picked a BP just like myself - except instead of being vertically challenged (me being 5ft), she's errr...Horizontally challenged :D :rolleyes:

They all grow at different rates. We have a male and female that are the same age and over 100 grams difference. They started out eating the same thing each week. I would have sworn he was a dwarf bp. He isn't very long either. Now though, I think that maybe its just because he is a boy, and they don't get as big. Are you sure Pretzels is a girl?

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Originally Posted by DrDooLittle

They all grow at different rates. We have a male and female that are the same age and over 100 grams difference. They started out eating the same thing each week. I would have sworn he was a dwarf bp. He isn't very long either. Now though, I think that maybe its just because he is a boy, and they don't get as big. Are you sure Pretzels is a girl?

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100% positive she's a girl. She's been probed twice, once by the girl I got her from (and charged me £120 for her which I think is about $190?...shes a normal...)and then again when she needed a health check they just double checked as part of it. That was my first thought, that maybe she was actually a he! She just seems so...tiny... :/

I have two males out of the same clutch, one is just hitting 500g and the other is over 1000g and they are about 18ish months old

Pretzel is currently onlyyy 400g bless her tiny face.
Munch is 680g if I remember rightly, we weighed him last week.

So am I just worrying unnecessarily then yeah? You do get snakes that take a while to catch up to the rest? :)

Yes you can.
I also forgot to mention I have a Lesser and two Mojos that are about 10 months and right at or over 700g.

It all varies per snake, dont worry about it. There will be other things that are better to stress over LOL

Ta muchly :D

We hatched out a 30 gram male het clown last season that was very much a runt of the clutch and has not caught up to any of it's siblings.
He's about 200 grams now when his siblings are double + his size.
He hatched out of a very small boob egg, no idea if he'll ever reach normal size, he eats well but is quite small.

i know you probly dont want to hear what i have to say but when i had both my snakes mac was 3 monthes yonger and was a little smaller and in the next three monthes he out grew her and they both were eating but she never had a good shed untill i started..... well i wont go there.
when mac dissapeared 4 years ago he was 3ft and siss was 2ft.

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Originally Posted by CherryPython

Pretzel is currently onlyyy 400g bless her tiny face.
Munch is 680g if I remember rightly, we weighed him last week.

So am I just worrying unnecessarily then yeah? You do get snakes that take a while to catch up to the rest? :)

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At that size she could be eating small rats, so she could be growing a little more slowly since she is only getting weanlings. Same with Munch on rat size, if he isn't already taking smalls. How often are you feeding them? I'm not saying you should be worried, and you certainly aren't starving them, but it could be a contributing factor.