Hand comparison thread!

Thought this would be a fun and useful thread.

Share pictures of your ball python next to your hand or being held! :D If possible, please include age and weight.

Let the fun begin!

Hatch date 12/9/16. So he is almost 5 months old, and he is right around 100g. Going into his first shed while I have had him.
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Are you more wanting to see size comparisons for future reference?

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Originally Posted by HannahLou

Are you more wanting to see size comparisons for future reference?

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Yes but also in general. There are a fair bit of custom DIY projects I have in mind so I'm trying to grasp how big ball pythons get and how fast/at what age to expect them to grow.

here's little miss spaghetti the day i got her. she was 7 months old and weighed ~245g.

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Originally Posted by MissterDog

Yes but also in general. There are a fair bit of custom DIY projects I have in mind so I'm trying to grasp how big ball pythons get and how fast/at what age to expect them to grow.

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I'll add some pics in a bit, but as I'm sure you know and you'll see through this thread, they grow at pretty different rates. There are lots of variables, including sex of the animal, feeding frequency, prey and prey size, etc...

But you'll hopefully get some ideas and some ideas for your DIY projects. I'm actually in the process of making some hides myself. So far there's been a bit of a learning curve, but the one I'm working on now seems like a keeper. :gj:

My little girl the day we brought her home. She hatched 01/2017 and weighed 134 grams when we picked her up 4/8/2017.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6f42f0c588.jpg

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My daughters boy Charlie. First pic is her holding him at a few weeks old in September 2026. 2nd pic is her holding him March this year xxhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c8ddb2e4f2.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...91ea62f959.jpg


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Here's Riddle the day we got him at NWRE May 16th of last year at 69g and hardly thicker than my thumb:

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And here he is last month pushing over 500g

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I'll grab a current "in hand" pic of Strudel tonight and you can see what a healthy 2 1/2 year old female looks like vs her baby pics!

Bonus: here is Riddle stealing former room mate's head phones at game night last Saturday :giggle:

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...l4mo1_1280.jpg

1 month old, held by a 5 year old.

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Maja as a wee little one...

http://photos.imageevent.com/morgens...e/IMG_4082.JPG



Isabella, massive normal I used to have, huge head on her

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Okay, ready for this?

Strudel on her unboxing day at about 140 grams. She was hatched Halloween of 2014 and I got her in February 2015.

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Here she is around 500 grams later that summer...

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Here she is at 1000 grams (I forget when the pic was taken but sometime last year)

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And this is today, weighed at 1600 grams as of last week

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She no longer fits in one hand, lol.

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Okay, ready for this?

Strudel on her unboxing day at about 140 grams. She was hatched Halloween of 2014 and I got her in February 2015.

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Here she is around 500 grams later that summer...

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Here she is at 1000 grams (I forget when the pic was taken but sometime last year)

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And this is today, weighed at 1600 grams as of last week

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om%2Fzbcgv.gif

She no longer fits in one hand, lol.

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Fantastic photos and thanks for going through the trouble of including the gif! Super helpful! Wow she's grown! How thick would you say her body is?

Hard to say, but I think it's probably close to the same width as a coke can!

Jag as a wee little one

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a little bigger

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and just recently

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Layla, Petsmart normal ball. They only had her 2 days.

67g March 18th, 2017 Her first night home. Started shedding a few days later
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106g today April 25 started shedding again yesterday, 5 weeks later.
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Layla, Petsmart normal ball. They only had her 2 days.

67g March 18th, 2017 Her first night home. Started shedding a few days later


106g today April 25 started shedding again yesterday, 5 weeks later.


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Oh no! Someone needs higher humidity and a nice soak or time with a damp towel.

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Oh no! Someone needs higher humidity and a nice soak or time with a damp towel.

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Ya I had to soak her twice after the first shed, but her head and eye caps didn't come off and still being a newb I was a little scared to try and mess with her head.

I had trouble with the humidity the last couple days before I knew she was shedding.

Here is her cage now. I just fed her after those 2 pics. I added a 2nd warm damp towel on her cool side (left side) to keep the humidity up around 70% and last longer. This coming weekend I will look her and probably give her a soakhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...373c7bbb92.jpg

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Originally Posted by WarrThox

Ya I had to soak her twice after the first shed, but her head and eye caps didn't come off and still being a newb I was a little scared to try and mess with her head.

I had trouble with the humidity the last couple days before I knew she was shedding.

Here is her cage now. I just fed her after those 2 pics. I added a 2nd warm damp towel on her cool side (left side) to keep the humidity up around 70% and last longer. This coming weekend I will look her and probably give her a soak

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Temps look too high? Anyway, coco fiber will keep up humidity a lot more easily than aspen since you're working with a screen top. I tried towels for a while for my garter snake screen top cage, but it's a hassle. Switching to coco fiber easily bumped up the humidity by 20%+. They don't need as high humidity as bps, so I don't really do anything else with their cage for it but it tends to maintain that increase even without misting.

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Originally Posted by Kcl

Temps look too high? Anyway, coco fiber will keep up humidity a lot more easily than aspen since you're working with a screen top. I tried towels for a while for my garter snake screen top cage, but it's a hassle. Switching to coco fiber easily bumped up the humidity by 20%+. They don't need as high humidity as bps, so I don't really do anything else with their cage for it but it tends to maintain that increase even without misting.

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Thanks I just ordered some! I do have foil tape a cardboard on top around heat lamp.

I also picked up some black foam board and background paperhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...8f66a0c830.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5e59da8097.jpg

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These pics are a bit older but just a good. Also i don't have a lot of the hatch dates and i don't weight mine much. I just keep a good eye on them.

Ghi pastave
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil..._49_28_pro.jpg

Sugar bee
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil..._07_31_pro.jpg

Super pastel
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil..._10_44_pro.jpg

Lesser pastel
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../1/v__b4b2.jpg

Albino clown
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil..._clown_2_2.jpg

You can barely see my hand, but here's Tessa. She's 290 grams, exact age unknown but she's a '16 hatchling. My smallest royal yet.

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Lilo, 6mo pastave female- 388g last I checked. Possibly 25" unfurled lol https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...80b46ee09b.jpg

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I tried to share what 3000g looks like but she doesn't exactly fit in a hand lol

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I tried to share what 3000g looks like but she doesn't exactly fit in a hand lol

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beautiful big girl!!!

here's yellow around 2 years old and pushing 600g.
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and spaghetti at 7 months and over 300g.
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Here's lil' noodly jumbi at 2 months, 143g back in July 2016
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And this was taken recently April 14, 807g and he's almost a year old [emoji16]also a whole lot more freckles!
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Originally Posted by HannahLou

I tried to share what 3000g looks like but she doesn't exactly fit in a hand lol

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Lol that's the same problem I had with Strudel. Hence the gif.

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I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for taking the time to share your beautiful photos! This is super helpful and also great fun to watch. I'm loving this thread so much!

Here's our noodle Wanda on the 4th of October last year (about 10 weeks old):
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...70060048_o.jpg

And here she is yesterday (26/04/17):

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...t%3D1493210098

Sorry for the blurry phone photos :D