Is this royal python skinny?

I got this little guy today and he looks really skinny to me..

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When I first got my royal she had no wrinkles but this one has visible wrinkles? Does that indicate he is skinny?

Apparently he hatched last year in March? But he is wayyy too small/skinny, my female hatched in September and is probably double his girth and abit longer


I don't have any more pictures but I will update tonight.. I will get some better pictures and weight.




Thanks in advance



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Yeah lots of excess skin

Better photos would be great.
I would say it looks good.

FYI even fat snakes have wrinkles in a curled tail........

I was thinking the same thing as Pit.

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Hard to tell until you post better pictures. My male is a fat butt and he's all wrinkles when he curls up. All snakes grow at different rates. Depends on what kind of an eater he is and males are smaller than females too.

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a shot at the spine?

I was thinking he was skinny because he is meant to be 14 months old but looks like a 4 month old hatchling?

That is him curled up not he's tail?

I will post some pictures when I get in..

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Originally Posted by enoughbubbles456

I was thinking he was skinny because he is meant to be 14 months old but looks like a 4 month old hatchling?

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I have two Albino girls of the same age....one is 500ish grams and the other is over 1200 gram and laid my Het Snow clutch.

Wow, that is quite a difference.. but you wouldn't know what I mean until you saw him.
How old are your albinos?

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Originally Posted by enoughbubbles456

Wow, that is quite a difference.. but you wouldn't know what I mean until you saw him.
How old are your albinos?

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Bet I would.....
Both hatched 07/2012

From the little you offered in pictures, I'm more inclined to lean towards overweight than anything else. There is no real correlation between age and size when it comes to animals. You have stuff like twins/runts, feeding habits, temperatures, individual metabolisms, parasites, genetics, stress levels, etc, etc.

Those pictures are impossible to judge by.

The person I bought him off said he was a really bad feeder and has only just started to feed steadily?

I've just weighed him and he is 200 grams and he is 14 months old?

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He's is quite small.

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Looks fine to me.
Everyone is hung up on age and weight/size but most of us have FAT overweight animals.

One of the many things I learned from this forum is that bps grow at different rates. I have a toffino enchi I'm making payments on that was hatched 10/26/15 and weighed 123g last month. My super pastel at the same age weighed 295g.

Questions you need to ask yourself are is the snake eating? If yes then great if not then you ask yourself a second question is the snake losing a lot of weight? If not then it will eat when it's ready, just keep an eye on weight. A small snake doesn't mean it's unhealthy.

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Okay, thanks alot guys I was just asking as I've never seen such a small royal at that age.

I know now not to judge by the size/weight, I guess he is healthy.

He is very shy, he will not strike feed or even explore his tank.. he striked at me last night (I was about 2 feet away) will he stop doing that eventually? as I dont 100% trust snakes and handle mine much but I hook them out and they aren't really bothered.

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