BP length at 6MO

My male ball python is about 2' 6" and growing, fast. He seems pretty giant for a male if you ask me, I don't know the method of sexing so he might be a female, or I'm just underestimating his growth rate, anyhow... I just wanna see how big your 6 month olds are and their sex too, also, does he seem large to you?

With snakes, you generally go by their weight in grams. Length isn't a very good predictor of overall health. A picture and a weight would be immensely helpful.

Also, every snake is different. I have 2 females that are only a couple months apart, and one is around 1200 grams, the other over 2000.

I don't know his weight and don't have any recent pictures of him but he's a little bit on the skinny side now given the fact that he refused food for 7 weeks. I don't really care about his weight though because he's not a breeder or anything(obviously) as long as he's got good meat and muscle on him(not too much not too little)and isn't having any problems or anything it shouldn't really matter anyways. He just seems unusually large compared to all the other 5-7 mo male BPs I've seen. He's not power fed or anything, his mom was wild caught and a
bit large though...maybe some "sub-Saharan/Volta" blood in there...

edit; and yes I do know that they vary greatly.

Whether your snake is a breeder or not, the general health is still not measured in length. You can have a snake that is 2'6" and very skinny or very fat or right in the middle. My male pied is almost 3' but he went off feed for several months and is only about 600g right now. Too skinny!

That being said I've seen some yearling snakes well on their way to 2,000g so yours is probably not that uncommon.

I know length has nothing to do with health and weight, really, does not necessarily matter as long as he's not too fat or too skinny and healthy, saying it does is like saying a small-boned 5' tall Asian man should weigh 200lbs just because a bunch of large-boned(not fat) 6' tall white guys do. I'm just wondering if he seems a bit large for a 6mo male BP because I've just never seen a 6mo that was as large as he is.

My bp was at 650 grams at 6 months but she loved eating

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Well the weight and overall look of the snake is what is important BPs are suppose to be tube shaped no matter the length.

Some localities of ball python get rather large. Is he CB? WC? Could be sub-saharan perhaps?

How certain are you that, A. He's a HE. B. He's 6mos old?

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Some localities of ball python get rather large. Is he CB? WC? Could be sub-saharan perhaps?

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How certain are you that, A. He's a HE. B. He's 6mos old?

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His mom was WC and on the large side too, 6ft long. He was CBB. And I got him from the breeder who is a friend of my mom and she posted when the eggs were layer and hatched on FB. Even had pipping pics. I'm not sure what method of sexing was used but I was told he's male. I haven't been able to get ahold of her to ask about the sexing method or the mom or anything.

My normal boy, who was born on June 11, is about 22 inches long. I say about because it's difficult to get him to stretch out to measure. He gets a bit squirmy. ;)

I don't believe I have ever measured the length of any of my snakes.

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My normal boy, who was born on June 11, is about 22 inches long. I say about because it's difficult to get him to stretch out to measure. He gets a bit squirmy. ;)

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You can always try and use SnakeMeasureTool software. I use that for measuring snakes without having to bother them with measuring.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/snakemt/

It's dead simple. I use a piece of paper (A4 standard letter in EU) and a phone camera. You lay the object of known dimensions beside the snake and take a photo from top view. Then just use the program and load the photo, input the dimensions of known object and trace the snake. Voila :P

Sweet! Thank you for the tip, jxl.

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My normal boy, who was born on June 11, is about 22 inches long. I say about because it's difficult to get him to stretch out to measure. He gets a bit squirmy. ;)

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My boy is 7 months old and he's about 2 feet long maybe a little more. :)


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The breeder decided to drop by today to check on him and I asked her about it so she sexed him again. Turns out, she gave me the wrong snake and he is a she. And because of that she wants to breed her to one of her males when she's up to size and I get to pick the sire and the baby I want! I'll also get some money but how much depends on how many babies and their morphs.