Dwarf Albino

2006 female in a 6 qt tub.

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What the hell???

06?

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

What the hell???

06?

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Yep! $1400 for her in '06 and she'll never be big enough to breed! :rage:

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Originally Posted by SPJ

Yep! $1400 for her in '06 and she'll never be big enough to breed! :rage:

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Wow dude.....dont even know what to say.....

..cough *rip off* hahahaha


Thats really odd, but a great representation of how wieght vs age has a roll in breeding.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

..cough *rip off* hahahaha

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You can say that again.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

a great representation of how wieght vs age has a roll in breeding.

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By the time she is 10 years old she may be breeding size.

Is she really showing any sort of growth at all though? I mean in two years and shes still in a 6qt? LOL

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

Is she really showing any sort of growth at all though? I mean in two years and shes still in a 6qt? LOL

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She grows but VERY LITTLE at a time.
Maybe 10 grams a month.

Well at least she's pretty and healthy

you need to try breeding her and making more dwarfs, that would be sweet.

a clutch of dwarfs would be cool, i would buy one but too bad it would need to be a 10 year project. Maybe try to find another "dwarf" snake? Someone on this site might have seen this before. Come to think of it, dwarfs would save tons on cage expenses.

I have some normal females that are 2006 also and in the 500-600gram range....

Could it possibly be internal parasites? I know that when mammals have parasites in their digestive tract, the parasites use up a lot of the nutrients that come in and the host ends up becoming malnourished and loses weight or gains slowly. Not saying she has them, but it wouldn't hurt to check.

I'd be very very careful attempting to breed her. Even if you found a "dwarf" male, the genetics of "dwarf" balls are not yet well understood, and she could easily produce full-size eggs that either have to be surgically removed or end up killing her.