Is my BP really 8 months old?

Hi all,

I got my first snake yesterday. A beautiful butter enchi het ghost! She was born in June of 2015. Apparently for the first few months of her life, she had to be assist fed, but since then she has been strike feeding without a problem.
I just have a slight concern about her weight. I have not weighed her myself yet, but the breeder I got her from weighed her the day I got her and said she is 138g. I've been looking around online about weights, and the average seems to be around 300-400g for her age.

She doesn't look underweight, she looks very healthy as far as I can tell. Is 138g a healthy weight for an 8 month old BP? The breeder says she has been strike feeding on fuzzies once a week. I also fed her for the first time today without any issue.

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Feeding on fuzzy what? Mice or rats? They all grow at different rates, but I would consider that small for her age.

Forget abut comparing your animal to other I have 8 months old animals that are 500/600 grams and this means nothing. What is the most IMPORTANT is that your BP look healthy.

There is no chart for ideal weight, it depends on various factor the animal itself, weight out of the egg, how fast the animal was started, prey size, feeding frequency, food refusal (some will eat no matter what, some will skip) etc.

The breeder was up front regarding assisting and this is something else to account for (smaller prey less often in the beginning), not something I would be very worried about, all the holdbacks that I had to assist turned out to be some of my best feeders (I have one right ow sitting at a 1000 grams at 1 year).

Now the only thing is the prey size YOU are offering rat or mice fuzzies are too small at that size your BP can take an adult mice or a small rat pup.

Again weight is a number overall look and proportion is what matters.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Now the only thing is the prey size YOU are offering rat or mice fuzzies are too small at that size your BP can take an adult mice or a small rat pup.

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It is currently feeding on rat fuzzies, but the next size up (which I have in the freezer) which was a small rat pup looks WAY too large for her. Even the breeder felt it would be a good few months before she can take something that large. Perhaps for now it might be a good idea to feed her the rat fuzzies more often? At the moment it's once a week. Would twice a week be ok?

Feed something equal the girth size (widest art or your BP's body) that's th best thing to to has size and names vary from one person to another (I start hatchling out of the egg on rat fuzzies ;) ). You can feed once or twice a week it's up to you.

I think at that size, my little girl was slamming large rat fuzzies or pups every 3 days. She was a pig though and would literally stand up like a cobra when you opened her cage lol.