Offical BP Weigh In!!!!!

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Originally Posted by nirvana

is something wrong with my ball python??? she wieghs 265 grams and is 26" and is 18 months old. is she just a slow grower? i feed once a week.

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No, nothing wrong. Don't get hung up on weights, all snakes are different. As long as you're feeding an apropriately sized food item every 7-10 days your fine. ;)

-adam

Monty is about 14 months old. I weighed him today and he is 513 grams. Is this an unhealthy weight. I wonder because some of yours are twice his weight and the same age.

I heard that feeding them to fast to make them grow quick for breeding was not good because it takes years off of their life. Is this true? What is a good weight for a yearling male?

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

No, nothing wrong. Don't get hung up on weights, all snakes are different. As long as you're feeding an apropriately sized food item every 7-10 days your fine. ;)

-adam

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Is waiting 14 days bad?

you have to keep a steady schedule monty, i feed mine every saturday, he's still a baby ,for yours i'd experiment within 7-10 days, anything longer is pushing it, doesn't he get hungry and look for food? friday night and mine is cruising everywhere looking for dinner :rockon:

Hatched August 16th, 1150g & 40". Eats a small rat every Sunday, even in shed (complete shed yesterday).

Still not burned (for all you tubbies!). :rolleyes:

Matika is 4 years old, 44'' long, and weighed 1755g this morning, but she's got a small meal in her.

my biggest girl at the moment is a little over 2500 grams...Jas that is one big girl how many eggs does she produce or did she produce ?

heavyest ball I have is a female ( recently acquired ) weighed and measured this morning ( weirdly enuff considering this post ! )

she's 44 inches and 818g , age is unknown . tho told she at least three !!

my bee is 696g and was a year about two weeks ago . just shows the diff with some snakes.....need to meassure tho but reckon she almost 36 inches ( guesstimated)

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

All of them? ... Hmmm ... that might take a while (and some server space)! :P :twisted:

-adam

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Okay, just a couple of the larger females. I saw the pic you posted before of your big female, don't think you mentioned weight at the time.

Dex is 4 years old (born June-July 03) and weighs 910grams. He's just over 36".

He may have gotten bigger, but at one point he just refused to eat. I started with mice then worked up to small rats and one day he just wouldn't eat the rat. This was also during November-April when some people say BP can be a pain to feed. He only started eating again when I tried a mouse. Until recently he was eating 3 mice but now he's eating rats again. I just fed him 2x40g small rats, does 1x100g medium rat sound too big for him? These are frozen of course.