Obestity?

I saw this pic on the bet.. do these snakes look obese to you or something? I never saw one with the weird lumpiness like in ths pied on the left.
It's a link, not my snakes.
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Wow.. the curled up one looks seriously fat.. yuck.

yea that snake is way over weight

The one stretched out doesn't look so bad (maybe because its not curling) but that other one just makes me think YUCK! ...and its a pied!

Looks like a charpe' almost :eek:

they don't look too old, i bet they slow down or stop eating before long. balls do a good job of maintaining enough calories.


vaughn

http://www.boasandballs.com/Photo's/...%20_edited.jpg

here ya go

Just about all the pythons that i have worked on in the museum for skeletal preperation, look obese to me with the amount of fat deposits within the body cavity. Even snakes that don't look overweight on the outside, have massive amounts of fat within them. But as far as that pic goes, they would probably advertise it as a...."good eater" hahaha


~mike

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

here ya go

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That should be a URL tag, not an IMG ... it's against site rules to "hot link" images from a site other than your own ... just an FYI ... I'm sure someone from the staff will hook it up for ya. ;) :sweeet:

-adam

Yikes, I am glad I wasn't the only one who thought it was a chub. Yipes!

Lynn (from Boas and Balls) is who I get some of my rats from, and I have seen these guys in person. The picture is kind on misleading, in that the "chubby" guy is full grown and only about 2 feet long .... he is sort of an oddity. To give you an idea how small he really is, I believe the other one in the picture is a yearling.

Neil

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Originally Posted by aaajohnson

Lynn (from Boas and Balls) is who I get some of my rats from, and I have seen these guys in person. The picture is kind on misleading, in that the "chubby" guy is full grown and only about 2 feet long .... he is sort of an oddity. To give you an idea how small he really is, I believe the other one in the picture is a yearling.

Neil

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Sounds kinda neat, but Im a magnet for freaks LOL
Any idea if it looked any different than usual as a youngster (was it apparent early on that it was "different")?

If I remember right, she said he was small but not to the point that he really stood out. He is definitely different to look at when you see him in person. She has not bred him to my knowledge, the pieds (and poss hets) she produced this year were all from het to het breedings.

Neil

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Originally Posted by aaajohnson

If I remember right, she said he was small but not to the point that he really stood out. He is definitely different to look at when you see him in person. She has not bred him to my knowledge, the pieds (and poss hets) she produced this year were all from het to het breedings.

Neil

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Thanks Neil :)

So when you look at him, he basically has the girth of an adult but with a 2' length? I think he'd be a cool snake to have as a pet.....

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Originally Posted by Uncle Festae

Thanks Neil :)

So when you look at him, he basically has the girth of an adult but with a 2' length? I think he'd be a cool snake to have as a pet.....

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Yep, thats pretty close. His head looks out of proportion with his body to me when you see him stretched out. It does not really look that way in the picture though. In person he seems to have more of a trianlge shaped head, but that may just be how it looks because of the length of his body.

Neil

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

That should be a URL tag, not an IMG ... it's against site rules to "hot link" images from a site other than your own ... just an FYI ... I'm sure someone from the staff will hook it up for ya. ;) :sweeet:

-adam

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thanks, did not realize that