Does my guy look healthy?

First time I showed pics everyoen said he looked underfed and what not.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...p/DSC01850.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...p/DSC01645.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...p/DSC01851.jpg

Pretty snake. He looks pretty good to me, but I can never tell by pictures.

Is that a Jason Voorhees bedspread, or whatever?

he still looks a little on the thin side to me. you want them to have a "muscular" look and feel around the spine. from the 1st and 3rd pic it still looks like its a littel thin. the second picture he looks good in though? how much are you feeding him. and have you had him checked for parasites?

It's hard to tell by pictures, but in the first and third picture he looks triangular shaped and thin. That may just be an illusion though.

What and how often are you feeding him?

I feed him once a week, a medium adult mouse.

But once week a month I don't for shedding.

No I have not checked him for parasites.



And that's a jason T-Shirt, he's on my lap.

He does look a little thin... I'd try two mice next week.

Yeah, maybe two mice will be good.
Should I feed them the same day? Or different days?

You could bump him to a 5 day feeding schedule instead of uping the prey amount. Also, getting a scale will give you a more accurate reading on what he is gaining or not gaining. I know my pastel male went through a phase of looking thin, even though he was clean and eating a rat pup every week. If I didnt have a scale to tell me he was gaining 100 grams a month, I would have been freakin out. ;)

Our 439 gram bumblebee is slamming down 3 adult mice a week! When she came in she had a little of the triangular shape to her. Even our 200+ gram albino is taking 2 adult mice a week and strikes them down quick. We feed twice a week with one day supposed to be light and the other heavy since we are doing mice. The bumblebee gets 5 minutes with a mouse on light day and if she doesn't take it down by then we take it out (we have never had to pull this one out :D ). On the heavy day we give her one and give about 10 minutes with it, then the second we give her about 5 minutes with. (We have only ever had to pull the second out once early on when she was around 300 grams.) The way we look at it is they are kinda like human kids. If they are playing with their food they have had too much!

I've been looking for one everywhere at stores, all I see are either people scales or weed scales.

office max sells postage scales or you can order them online from several places

Ok, I think I looked at office depot

You might have better luck looking for a scale used for cooking. They measure in grams and lbs, I found mine online.

If you go to Wal Mart the gram scale will be with the cooking supplies, like measuring cups and stuff like that.

Do you skip feeding while he's in shed because he refuses to eat, or you just don't want to bother him? Only a couple of my snakes will not eat while in shed, but all the rest of them eat just fine- no different than if they were not in shed.

good scales
http://www.reptilebasics.com/Digital...p-1-c-258.html

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Originally Posted by jdmls88

good scales
http://www.reptilebasics.com/Digital...p-1-c-258.html

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Agreed. I have the 7001DX and I love it!!

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Originally Posted by Rapture

If you go to Wal Mart the gram scale will be with the cooking supplies, like measuring cups and stuff like that.

Do you skip feeding while he's in shed because he refuses to eat, or you just don't want to bother him? Only a couple of my snakes will not eat while in shed, but all the rest of them eat just fine- no different than if they were not in shed.

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I skip not to bother it.