Question about girth

About how thick should a one and one half foot bp be? Cause' Link is looking very skinny compaired to some of the other young bps I've seen.

What about a 3.5 foot male?

1 1/2 foot male bp. I was wondering how thick they are suposed to be at that length.

I know, I just figured I would take advantage of your question to ask one of my own :) I ahve been owndering the same thing most of Kitty's life

Oh, ok. I thought you misread my post.

Nope, I do wish i had an answer for you though.

Well snakes differ from one another like people.
So you can't really say how thick it will be at what age.

I will say this though, once you get them on rats ...
Girth adds on quite thickly.

I agree with Blink. You can not say that a 1.5 or even a 3.5 foot BP should be this width. It varies by animal. But to give ya an idea, when coiled up in the palm of my hand, Zeus (my 3 foot BP) is widder than my hand when I have all fingures stretched out as far as they will go. And the last time I weighed him, he came in at about 1.8 pounds. And when you switch them over to rats, they do and will grow like a weed (length and girth). They grow so fast that you wonder what happend to that cute little snake you brought home from the petshop.

Hmm, good to know. I worry that Kitty is not measuring up somtimes, but if the rats will fix that then, whooppie :)

I measured Zeus last night to give y'all an idea as to how wide he is. He is currently about 38" long and about 7" wide at his widest. But also take in account he had just eatten Sunday night and had yet to go to the bathroom. So, that width may change by the end of the week. But this give ya a little idea about girth.

7' wide? O_O Wow.

wolfman38, do you mean 7 inches around?

7" wide or around

my question exactly, there is a major differance.

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Originally Posted by First_time_herp

7' wide? O_O Wow.

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If it was 7 feet wide...it'd be the first ball python to ever require bears as it's prime food source. :shock:

38 inches in length and 7 inches in girth (around [width]) whatever you want to call it. :)

Circumfrence?

yeah, I was going to ask that same word Smulkin but I could not remeber how to spell it

I would guess he ment 7" in around since a 7" wide BP at 38" long would be a bit large. my Sage that I just got a week ago is about 32" long and is 5.5" around at her widest point. Wondering if you python measures up is alot like wondering if your.........., So long as the snake is healthy and happy dont worrie about it. I have 4 baby bp's right now 3 are all about the same lenth/girth and 1 is considerbly smaller but is healthy and eats well.