Is my snake just fat?

Hi,

was tank cleaning again tonight and couldn't get over the size of this big pudding of a female.

Assuming she is only fat - should I cut down her food?

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...003cropped.JPG


Sorry for the quality of the pics - neither I nor the camera are getting any younger.



dr del

She's hot! I wouldn't change a thing.... but that's me... :P

i say if she's happy, leave her her be.... I think she looks great. :)

Derek, she's looks awesome! ... Don't change a thing unless you plan on breeding her. ;) :sweeet:

-adam

I think she looks fabulous! I lub me some big, chunky girls! (Could be I'm just biased that way, though... :rolleyes: :P )

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Originally Posted by JLC

I think she looks fabulous! I lub me some big, chunky girls! (Could be I'm just biased that way, though... :rolleyes: :P )

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DITTO THAT!!! x 2000000 :P


Hot snake there!

Babys got back!!!front and middle....she looks good man..

if she was getting too fat she would probably stop eating for a bit. Wait for some vets to chime in before you take that bit of advice.

She does look to be on the heavy side. If you plan to breed her Fat balls are more likely to give you sluggs then good healthy eggs. Thats something to think about. Just my :2cent:

She looks sweet! I like a little junk in the trunk

She does look to be on the heavy side. If you plan to breed her Fat balls are more likely to give you sluggs then good healthy eggs. Thats something to think about. Just my :2cent:


OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOops on the double post

What a dark beauty! Love me some chocolate! :carrot: lol
She beautiful! If nothing is wrong withher or anything keep it up, she is abeauty! Love them nice'n' chinky too! lol

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Derek, she's looks awesome! ... Don't change a thing unless you plan on breeding her. ;) :sweeet:

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Thanks. :) Nah I'm trying to get all the housing sorted out so breeding isn't really an issue at the moment - maybe by the time I've built this rack she'll have gone on the slimfast diet but I can't see it.

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

if she was getting too fat she would probably stop eating for a bit.

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She must have heard us - she turned her nose up at supper. :) She does seem to self regulate - just never to the extent of getting any slimmer. She's also lazy even for a ball python. I even tried putting her back on mice but she just looked at me as if I was daft.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Morph

She does look to be on the heavy side. If you plan to breed her Fat balls are more likely to give you sluggs then good healthy eggs.

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I have visions of the rack gently tilting to one side when she goes for a drink. :P


And thankyou for all the kind words folks. In a slightly more worrying development I bought a second hand digital camera today so shall be posting pics all over the place as soon as I learn size control versus quality. I cropped almost all of this shot and it was still almost 300kb and huuge. The original is 2.4 meg!! But I do have the instruction manual and, if forced, will resort to using it.

Now I need to build a rack AND a photobooth.



dr del