Digital Scale for BP Weighing

Great suggestions! I was worried that the cheaper ones wouldn't work as well or wouldn't go up as high but it looks like they do! Thanks everyone!

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Originally Posted by Deborah

http://www.reptilebasics.com/my-weigh-7001dx :gj:

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That's the one I picked up and love it!

i got the same one from reptilebasics(love it)

I was looking for one about a month ago and was in the same boat as you. It seems if you buy them from any online reptile supply company your going to be paying at least $40 plus shipping. I just went to the local k-mart here and picked up a us postal scale for $25, it weighs in grams and handles up to 10 lbs i think, which is perfect for my collection. My bigger snakes don't fit on it so I set a 6 qt tub on the scale zero it out then place the bp in the tub. Works great at half the cost. I've also seen people use food scales

If you are not going to be selling snakes almost any scale that goes from 1 gram to 5000+ will do. Accuracy isn't critical but repeatability is. (if you place the same object on then off then back on it should weight the same with in .1 gm. If you were breeding I'd say an accurate one so a commercial shipping scale or something a little more accurate than a typical one. Personally I'd also get a small known weight to check it with too. But only if you are selling animals so when you tell someone it is 63gms it is correct.