Growth rate...

[Gregg Madden]

12/02/09


Today 1/18/10

[Skiploder]

She actually looks beefier in the first picture.

How old is she?

(Is it a she? - I'm assuming so because of the size).

[zackw419]

She actually looks beefier in the first picture.

How old is she?

(Is it a she? - I'm assuming so because of the size).

and by her tail

[Skiploder]

and by her tail

That would have been ungentlemanly of me to say....





........then again, I did make reference to the size of her tail...........

[zackw419]

that would have been ungentlemanly of me to say....





........then again, i did make reference to the size of her tail...........

:d

[Neal]

She does look bigger in the first picture. Make sure your turning the scale on with the bowl already on so it's not adding that to the weight.

[Gregg Madden]

It is a female... She is only 8 months old... She was hatched in early April I believe...

She does look bigger in the first picture. Make sure your turning the scale on with the bowl already on so it's not adding that to the weight.

It is not my first time weighing reptiles Neal... LOL...

She looks fatter in the first picture but she was also about 3 inches shorter... In the first pic she was 17 inches long at 121 grams...
She is now 21 inches long at 169 grams...

[Aeries]

What's your feeding regime like?

[Gregg Madden]

What's your feeding regime like?

Being that Hognose snakes have a very high metabolism even for a North American colubid, which are fast in general, they are fed the day after defication which can be anywhere from every 2 to 3 days...

Before you start calling me a power feeder, keep in mind that many North American colubrids especially hognose snakes, have been documented to feed almost daily in the wild especially during the warmer parts of the year...
My snakes are fed when they want to eat and are never forced to take a meal...

The big growth rates also have to do with me not agreeing with the way most keepers heat their colubrids...

All of my colubrids especially my hogs have a hot spot of 90 to 93 degrees... The higher temps allow the snakes to thermoregulate much more efficiently... This helps to boost their metabolic rate, speeding digestion...

In the wild I have temp gunned areas where I have caught snakes like corns, pines, racers, and garters basking and the basking temps have always been in the low to mid 90's... I think that keeping colubrids at room temperature is not the best we can be doing for them... Yes they do ok at temps in the high 70's to low 80's, but they do much better and act much more naturally when heated up...

[Patrick Long]

LOL

So funny to me...first thing people jump on.....


YOU DONT KNOW HOW TO USE YOUR SCALE!!!!

lol

Cracks me up fellas.


Awesome lookin hoggy.