What kind of scale?

Any advice on a good scale for weighing Professor Snape and his mice? Not sure how to go about choosing one.

I, and many others, use the MyWeigh 7001DX digital scale. A few reptile suppliers have it available online. I got mine on Amazon when I found a good deal for it.

Really, you just need an accurate gram scale (kitchen scales are good for this) that goes up to ~5000 grams for BPs. Those are pretty commonplace at WalMart and such. The one I listed above goes up to 7000 grams for the biggest of big girls. ;)

I just picked up a kitchen scale from Walmart.

Perfect, thanks! I found this one which I think will work for mine for quite a while if I buy it in the larger size. He's only a baby :-) I just wasn't sure what to look for in regards to how high and low it needed to register.

http://www.amazon.com/Weighmax-W-281...scale+in+grams

Got mine at walmart

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Originally Posted by tbowman

I just picked up a kitchen scale from Walmart.

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Same. Set me back no more then $14 + tax.

My Walmart scale cost $10, and IIRC, can weigh up to 11#"s (don't know what that is in Kg).

It is several years old, but has held up to daily use. I measure the milk from the goat, and use it for sour-dough bread in the winter. It proved to be accurate to about a gram or two when I had to determine the gold content for a necklace I wanted to sell. The jeweler's scale gave very nearly the same weight.

Hope the new ones are just as good.


ETA: y'all know how to "tare," right? That is what makes the digitals so handy. Turn the scale ON, select for reading in GRAMS, set the empty bowl that will hold the BP onto the scale, and then "zero out" the weight of the bowl. Then, the scale will just give you the weight of the BP.

I picked the shortest one with the widest weighing area I could find. It makes it a lot easier to weigh a very active snake.

I just picked up a kitchen scale with good reviews. He has outgrown the platform, but I just put a paper plate on it and zero it out before weighing him. When he gets a bit bigger I will find a larger container. Make sure whatever you wind up with has the tare feature, so that you can put a container on it and set it back to zero for an accurate reading. I mean, you could always weight the container and subtract that from the total, but I love the zero feature. :P