Are they the right size?

I have two normal ball pythons. Male is around 6-8 months old I don't know exactly but my female is one year and three months old. I was hoping to get some opinions on what you all think. As far as I know the female is around 700-800 grams probably closer to seven and she is about two and a half feet long. My male is 200-300 grams and two feet long, he was malnourished when I got him he's put on some weight in the month that I have him. So I was wondering are they about the right size for their age? Also are they anything but normal? Sorry about my female's picture idk what happened to it, got cut in half or something but you can see all that's there how big she is. I will post a better picture of her when I can. Her pic is first, male's pic is second.
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They both look like normals, though the male has a nice reduced pattern.

Their weights sound okay, the female seems a little on the smallish side to me, but still okay. Is that an old picture of the female? She doesn't look like a 700-800g snake.

They look healthy to me. Unfortunately they all grow at different rates so as long as they are eating proper sized meals and look healthy like they do then you shouldn't be worried :)

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Originally Posted by Kinra

They both look like normals, though the male has a nice reduced pattern.

Their weights sound okay, the female seems a little on the smallish side to me, but still okay. Is that an old picture of the female? She doesn't look like a 700-800g snake.

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It's a bad picture, she's at least double the girth of the male and half a foot longer. Maybe be smaller for her size because she is a rescue and the friend I took her from had no idea what he was doing. He was feeding mice that were much too small and not often enough his brother told me that he didn't feed her for two months this was when she was young also she didn't eat for two months after she broke her jaw. And assuming they grow an average of a foot a year that would be an inch a month so she would be close to three feet right now if she was fed right her whole life. 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'll post a better pic of her showing her full size when I have the chance.

Definitely invest in a scale so you can track their weights. I agree that they look pretty good, but if they go off feed or other issues arise you don't want to have just estimates to compare to know when to worry about weight loss.

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Originally Posted by Annarose15

Definitely invest in a scale so you can track their weights. I agree that they look pretty good, but if they go off feed or other issues arise you don't want to have just estimates to compare to know when to worry about weight loss.

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I will when I get a job. Right now i'm breeding rats so i'm good on food. I barely make enough money working around the house to pay for rodent block and pine bedding. As soon as I get a job i'm getting a scale, building a snake rack, getting some morphs and i'm gonna start breeding.

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Originally Posted by Kinra

They both look like normals, though the male has a nice reduced pattern.

Their weights sound okay, the female seems a little on the smallish side to me, but still okay. Is that an old picture of the female? She doesn't look like a 700-800g snake.

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This. :gj:

Judging by the picture I will give her 400-500 grams at most. Neither look too bad, though.

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Originally Posted by AK907

This. :gj:

Judging by the picture I will give her 400-500 grams at most. Neither look too bad, though.

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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

For now i'll say that she's two thirds the width of a dollar bill and two and a half feet long.

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Originally Posted by 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

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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.

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.
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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.

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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)

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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)

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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.

They look healthy to me. Not underweight or anything.