My new huge girl!

I adopted this lovely, big girl today. I think she's around 1000 grams, and eating a mouse weekly. There are a few things I need to change about her habitat and care, but overall I think she's in great condition. She's very healthy and nice to handle. I'm just not used to such a big one!! :P

I need to convert her over from live to frozen very soon too. Apparently, she grabs the mouse right away so I'm hoping it'll be an easy switch. Any advice would be appreciated.

Her name is Entropy :cool:

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she looks skinny to me I would up it to atleast a small rat a week. A mouse is no where neat enough. But looks good otherwise grats on the pickup. :D Do you know how old she is.

Sweet.
Def try to get her on rats. Might be hard to go from live mice to FT rat so yo might try to just switch her to a small live rat then FT rat.
Mice = skinny snake. Rat= think snake

Great looking normal!

Very pretty girl!

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Originally Posted by trott

Mice = skinny snake. Rat= think snake

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What do you mean by that?

But I do agree with others when they say try to make the switch to f/t rats. There isn't really any nutrient difference between rats and mice, but the larger size might be more suitable as prey. I'm not too sure on the weight, but I think 100g prey (10% of snake's body weight) would be a small rat.

No offence Calift but sense when is 1000 grams a huge female. Thats not even breeding weight. My yearling un-sexed ball is 617 grams after a shed and turd that made me wonder if my cat had snuck into her cage. I also would call her a finicky eater.

It might be a huge female for him. I remember when i thought 1500 grams were huge now i have one pushing 3000grams.

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Originally Posted by likebull1

It might be a huge female for him. I remember when i thought 1500 grams were huge now i have one pushing 3000grams.

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Yeah I checked out his web page. This is by far the biggest snake he has. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Calift has handled some nice snakes for sure.

Na there is nothing wrong with that at all. I'm sure he will have even bigger ones in the future

Do you mind posting a pic of with it on your neck, just curious how it looks at 1000g

Thanks for the comments everyone.

First off, I'm a female :P ....Calift = Cali :)

She's not "huge" for most of you snake lovers, but compared to my '08 ball python- she's big. I didn't purchase her either (or pay anything), her owner was moving and needed to find a new home.

Switching over to rats is definitely the future plan. I'd like to get her on frozen rats every 10 days or so- but I understand it may take some time. I'm going to try some of the techniques for switching to f/t ....and then hopefully go from there.

I'll post new pictures later....and try to get some better size comparison shots.

Thanks for the input guys! :snake:

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Originally Posted by mrshawt

What do you mean by that?

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I think it was a typo, and they probably meant to say "mice = thin snake, rats = thick snake." :D

Nice snake, btw - I really like her keyhole (?) pattern! And I remember when Mona first arrived, weighing around 1600g... I'd only had hatchlings/juvies until then, and she actually scared me for a minute. :O Now that I've gotten used to her, she doesn't seem that big anymore (and she now weighs over 2000g). Congrats!

if you look closely at her head at the second to last pic...you can see a man's face...with horns...:devil:

This is my daughter holding 1.1 BP's, the 1.0 Pastel is a "06" and weights 1570+ grams & the Normal is also a "06" but a 0.1 and weights 1400+ grams both are eating rats and YES their is a slight difference in protein & fat content between a mouse and a rat But the biggest difference is that a rat of the same age will put a nice lump in the snakes belly whereas the 1 mouse a week is leaving your snake HUNGRY, I had a "06" 1.0 pastel at the same time as the one in the photo who would only eat mice no matter what I tried and just before I got rid of him he was weighing 840 grams vs 1300+ grams the one in the photo was weighting. It got to the point where I started feeding him 3 mice a week and he still wasn't catching up. Here's a link to a chart with protein & fat contents and weights http://www.rodentpro.com/qpage_articles_03.asp http://[IMG]http://i466.photobucket....of102_1482.jpg[/IMG]

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Originally Posted by Calift

First off, I'm a female :P ....Calift = Cali :)

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Sorry about that. I actually looked around to see if you mentioned your sex and you don't, at least that I could see.

My Ball Python is a pretty finicky eater. I finally switched her over to live because she was missing so many meals on frozen and I went mice because my only source of live rodents charges $6.50 for a rat regardless of size and $2.50 for mice. Two of the largest mice you have please, and a week later I had 14 pups to start a small colony. Now she is getting offered 2 mice and taking both about half the time. If anyone has ASFs in Northern New York, let me know, its time for me to switch.

Very nice girl! She looks great despite being a bit skinny... As others have said I'd switch her to rats asap. I feed my late '08 male pastel an adult mouse every 5-7 days.

My snake was an '07 holdout that I got a little over a year ago at 150 grams. She's now a hair over 1100 grams on empty, and I feed her anywhere from 4 to 5 adult mice (90-110 grams) every week. I'm preparing to switch her over to rats, if she'll do it. If I were you, I'd be feeding that snake a bit more. Feeding 10-15% of the snake's body weight is a good idea, regardless of whether its rats or mice.

wow i like that pattern on normals

congrats and good luck converting her to f/t!

Thanks for more responses.

When is the best time for her first feeding? Her last owner said she was due anytime soon- and I have a frozen mouse ready, as well as bedding for scenting, etc...I've read it's good to let them get a bit hungry, hopefully feeding this week isn't too soon??

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Give her a week from when you first got her for her to settle in and be comfortable with her new environment.

You can try buying a live med rat (well for me the med rats found locally are small) so it may be a small rat in your case. You may want to prekill it I had to do it to a few of mine to get them to switch. I prefer to prekill due to the risk of injury to the snake. You can whack them (place in a bag and smack against the floor/wall etc. or like I ended lup doing and make a little gas chamber and use co2.
cheap co2 tank
http://www.paintball-online.com/shop...od_TKCO2_09_59
the remote line for it. THen just make some sort of little box and stick the end of the hose into it. I screwed mine in. You may find a cheaper line on ebay.
http://www.paintball-online.com/shop...umber=RTCRPESC

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Originally Posted by Calift

Thanks for more responses.
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anyone else notice the lump aft of her cloaca??? Just appears odd to me.