My Giant Girl

I'll get some better pics up soon so you can really see her enormity, but take a gander at my big mama Normal. The Pastel on the left is about 350 grams. The Spider in the middle is around 800 grams. The big hoss on the right is over 4000 grams. I'll get a current weight on her this weekend and update.

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...n/IMAG0094.jpg

She laid a 10 egg clutch 2 seasons ago. I love her. She's just a super cool, super sweet, super huge girl.

that spider almost has a ghost look to it.. wonder if its in shed .. looks sweet though .. big ole girl ... it always seems normal/wild types get the biggest ..

WOW!!! She is huge! Love it:gj:

Good looking snakes! She is a big ol girl!

I don't think normals get the biggest, we just haven't SEEN the large morphs since breeders don't take pictures of them. I have seen 3000+ Gram pastels and Ghosts before, females of course. All ball pythons have a chance to get huge with the right feeding schedule.

Also thanks for the picture, she is one huge girl!! I've never had a ball python over 2600 grams, your is almost twice that!!

Wow, 4000 grams!

What a big beautiful girl. Is she hard to pick up by yourself ? I hope someday to own one as big as her.

Gale

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Originally Posted by angllady2

Wow, 4000 grams!

What a big beautiful girl. Is she hard to pick up by yourself ? I hope someday to own one as big as her.

Gale

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Thanks :) No she's not too hard to pick up. If you've ever held a boa or larger python, they are much bigger and yet still pretty easy to handle/manage, so while my girl is huge by Ball Python standards, she's still pretty manageable.
The one thing that is a bit of a drag about owning a giant female like this is that she won't comfortably fit in even a 41 qt tub. I had to outfit a separate tub just for her.

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Originally Posted by XIIIPythons

that spider almost has a ghost look to it.. wonder if its in shed .. looks sweet though .. big ole girl ... it always seems normal/wild types get the biggest ..

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I'm impressed, my friend! You have a keen BP eye. My spider male was, indeed, in shed in that pic. He just shed yesterday and is looking as handsome as ever. I was actually contemplating breeding him to the big normal girl yet this season. I probably will.

Holy cow she's big!!!! I love that spider too! :gj:

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Originally Posted by XIIIPythons

that spider almost has a ghost look to it.. wonder if its in shed .. looks sweet though .. big ole girl ... it always seems normal/wild types get the biggest ..

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It does seem so probably because photographing bigger snakes isn't so easy and most people with them probably don't want to hassle with it.
I love photographing small to medium snakes but the large girls are such a pain, lol.
Our mid 08 black pastel girl is 2100 grams at the moment and feeding up still while breeding.
I bet she hits 3000+ grams next year especially if she doesn't take this season.

OP that is one HUGE normal girl, love those big ones!

That's one big lady. Two of my girls are about 2700-2800 I thought they were big. Beautiful snakes.

Awesome! I'm so-so on giant pythons, but I go nutty for giant BALL pythons.

Can you take a pic of you or somebody else holding her?

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Originally Posted by loonunit

Awesome! I'm so-so on giant pythons, but I go nutty for giant BALL pythons.

Can you take a pic of you or somebody else holding her?

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Sure will! I like that there are so many of you out there that love the big BP's. In addition to being big, she also has a cool pattern and a clear belly. She's a really nice snake. I also have 2000 gram gravid girl that I'll try to photograph next to her for scale. I want to do a current length measurement too. I believe she's at least 5.5 feet. In fact, if I can get my brother to stop by this weekend, I'll shoot a video for you guys and post the link once it's done so you can see her on youtube.

OH MY GOD! :O are you sure shes not part retic? :D

Nice ball pythons! The spider does look like it got hypo in it!

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Originally Posted by dembonez

OH MY GOD! :O are you sure shes not part retic? :D

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Ha! No, no retic but funny comment. Thanks for sharing :)

Here's one of my big girls next to an 1800gram male

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._5165947_n.jpg

And another one of my big girls next to a 500 gram spider,

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._4446129_n.jpg

And next to a spade,

http://l29.sphotos.l3.fbcdn.net/hpho...8_228728_n.jpg

And Next to a 650-700gram butter and a 500 gram lesser

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2165788_n.jpg

All of them very nice...Geesh cant wait for show next month as I want a Spider. Before I go elsewhere I will try the show first...