Wondering if this is too skinny

Hi, I'm a first time ball python owner who's trying to do some decent research before purchasing any animal, I started another thread about one that I am interested in buying and it's specific morph, and some comments about how due to the wonderful forum here I believe it to be healthy (no respiratory issues). However I've also been told that it's a bit on the skinny, and that it might have been power fed.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...Pastel-Yellow-

Thank you all for your time.

Pictures aren't great, but it doesn't look too skinny...and I'm not getting the correlation between possibly too skinny and possibly powerfed.

Sorry about that let me clarify, someone else I had showed the pictures to said he looked a little on the skinny side, and made some mention of power feeding. I'm not entirely sure what the latter is.

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Originally Posted by RobNJ

Pictures aren't great, but it doesn't look too skinny...and I'm not getting the correlation between possibly too skinny and possibly powerfed.

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Power feeding is feeding a snake on a very rigorous diet in order to get it up to breeding weight as early as possible. Snakes do best on a moderately slow diet (for ball pythons one meal every 1-2 weeks, depending on age, is plenty) and power fed snakes are generally obese and have significantly shortened lifespans. It's a horrible thing to do to an animal.

Based on the pictures he doesn't look underweight or power fed to me.

Weight wise, that snake looks just fine.