Estimated age for my new ball python?

I recently purchased a BP from a local pet store and they were unable to give me an age for this little guy. I know all snakes grow differently but does anyone have an approximation based on it's size? It's about 17in

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I'm in no way knowledgeable about BP and how they age but I would get somewhere in the 5-6 month ballpark. I'm just basing that assumption off my 7 month old boy. How often do you feed him and what size? That will make a big difference in the size/age ratio.

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Originally Posted by Commandokev

I'm in no way knowledgeable about BP and how they age but I would get somewhere in the 5-6 month ballpark. I'm just basing that assumption off my 7 month old boy. How often do you feed him and what size? That will make a big difference in the size/age ratio.

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I fed him for the first time on Friday. The pics make it look a little bigger than it really is and I haven't had time to invest in a scale yet. I'm currently feeding it fuzzie mice but I'm sure it could take a hopper. I plan on feeding every 4-5 days until I run out of fuzzies then switching over to hoppers every 7 days.


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Here's a little better pic

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I will stick with the guess from the first post. You can definitely feed larger mice to him though, hoppers may still be too small.

It looks like he's sitting around maybe 300 grams, he's MOST likely 4-7 months old depending when he started eating consistently as a hatchling. Maybe younger even.

The only way to tell for sure is to cut him in half and count the rings.