Re: Are they the right size?
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evan385
It's a bad picture, she is one year and three months old and if a six month old ball python can be 600 grams I know for fact she is more than 500 grams. I'll post some better pictures here shortly and you'll see she's much bigger than she looks in the first pictures
Yeah, a better pic would help, I am just going by what I can see. They look pretty good, though.
A 6 month old can be 600 grams, but a year and half old can also be 300 grams. We have some 5 month old balls that are well on their way to being 450-500 grams at 6 months with proper feeding. Likewise, last year we picked up a year and a half old female ball that only weighed a little over 300 grams.
Re: Are they the right size?
I finally got around to taking some better pictures so here they are. First is my male the smaller one he's six-eight months. Second and third are my female she's one year and three months. For size reference i'm 200 lbs and 6'1" got big hands but there's a dollar bill so you shouldn't need that.
http://i44.tinypic.com/212g57t.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/eger6v.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/30hvcp4.jpg
Re: Are they the right size?
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Originally Posted by
evan385
I don't have a scale, since I heard that they eat 10% of body weight per week and she eats 70-80 grams small rats I just did that times ten to get that weight.
I believe that you are supposed to feed them that much a week. Not that whatever they are eating is automatically 10% of their body weight. For example you could feed a 1000 gram snake a 20 g mouse per week and that would not make the snake 200 grams. (not that a snake that size should be eating a single mouse a week, please dont do that :P)
Re: Are they the right size?
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Originally Posted by
Ezekiel285
I believe that you are supposed to feed them that much a week. Not that whatever they are eating is automatically 10% of their body weight. For example you could feed a 1000 gram snake a 20 g mouse per week and that would not make the snake 200 grams. (not that a snake that size should be eating a single mouse a week, please dont do that :P)
I just figured that an appropriate sized rat, one that gives them a good sized bulge, would be about 10% of the body weight or close to it. I'm getting a scale the next time I go to wal-mart so i'll get an accurate weight on them. My best guess would be that she's over 700 grams but we shall see.
Re: Are they the right size?
They look healthy to me. Not underweight or anything.
