skinny?

I just took my butter girl out and noticed she seems kind of skinny. Her belly doesnt cave in our anything and she has a good shape when placed on a flat surface. She is about 7-8 months old and about 2' 7" long. My phone's being stupid right now so I can't link the picture but it's in the gallery. I'll link it later on the computer.:snake: she's about 2 1/2" Wide. I know it wont really do any good without pictures but I just needed to get this posted before I forgot about it.

If you can see her spine easily, and Shea more of a triangle than round, she's to thon and you need to do larger prey items or more often. She should be fed an item the size if her widest part of her body once weekly at least if not every 5 days,till she's able to do small rats then once a week, medium rats once every other

I can't really see her spine, I mean, I can see the spine but not like, seeing the spine on a skinny person, more like, well, I'm sure you get the point...it doesn't look or feel bony. She has more of a round shape to her and I've tried offering small rats weekly but she will only eat them every other week and the medium ones were too big. So, basically, she seems fine other than her girth and rats small rats every other week. I think I'm just being a paranoid mommy. That, and I keep forgetting that they get longer before they start building up their girth...when do they start getting fatter rather than longer?

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...108_165010.jpg

She looks fine and healthy to me! Or, if she does seem a bit peckish in person, you could always bump her up a prey size. Do you have a gram scale? An exact weight would help us determine if she's proportionate.

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Originally Posted by Archimedes

She looks fine and healthy to me! Or, if she does seem a bit peckish in person, you could always bump her up a prey size. Do you have a gram scale? An exact weight would help us determine if she's proportionate.

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nope, no scales(XD). if i had to take a guess though id say however much 43 lemon drops weighs:D! lol, addicted.

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Originally Posted by TurkeyPython

nope, no scales(XD). if i had to take a guess though id say however much 43 lemon drops weighs:D! lol, addicted.

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Well, let's see:
1 Lemondrop = 0.1oz, = 2.84g
43 Lemondrops = 122.12g

I do hope that your snake weighs more than that at 2 and a half feet, haha.

Investing in a gram scale would be your best bet to see if she's on par for weight by the numbers. You can get them at walmart, in the food appliances section! (http://www.walmart.com/ip/The-Bigges...acity/11090896) This would be fine for awhile, at least a couple years!

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Originally Posted by Archimedes

1 Lemondrop = 0.1oz, = 2.84g
43 Lemondrops = 122.12g

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either we have giant lemondrops here or you have tiny lemondrops there. our lemondrops are wayyyy bigger than one tenth of an ounce.

Haha, that was the only number I managed to find! Gimme the benefit of the doubt here :P

hmmm... now that i think about it, i just might have a food scale in storage from when i had to take care of some newborn kittens that were stolen from their mom by another cat... how am i gonna get her to stay put? she does not like staying still.