Is my girl a little too fat?

[Ally.]

I'm a little worried that my girl is overweight. Normally I wouldn't be TOO worried about this and I'd just be happy she has an awesome appetite, but this is my first year breeding and I know that if a female is overweight, she can lay a bunch of slugs.

I picked this girl up about 4 months ago, and in the 4 months I've had her, she's put on 800 grams. The previous owner was feeding her medium rats, but when I got her I figured I could up the size to large and just feed her less often. I fed her large twice, and she downed them no problem, but then I switched back to mediums because I was worried she'd get overweight. She's just over two years old and is sitting at 2751 grams as of tonight (9 days ago she was at 2651). Now, she doesn't look too fat to me, but maybe someone with more breeding experience can tell me whether or not she should lay off a couple of meals or maybe just switch her to smaller meals. It just seems like she's putting on a lot of weight super quickly.

[karmak]

I don't think she looks fat at all. She looks stout (:

[Ally.]

haha, thanks! I think it was the rapid weight gain that had me worried most. Also, in the first picture it looks like she has a bit of a roll. lol.

[Mike41793]

Fat bottomed snakes make the rockin world go round!

[hypnotixdmp]

Fat bottomed snakes make the rockin world go round!

This is sooo true lol


0.3 Normals (Coilette, Athena and Mary Jane)
1.1 Het Genetic Stripe (Bonnie and Clyde)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)
1.0 Spider (Zeus)
1.0 Mojave (Prometheus)

0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)

[Ally.]

Lol, thank you! Just wanna make sure I can help her as much as possible to get as many healthy eggs as I can.

[TheSnakeGuy]

We should all be so lucky to have such a good eating snake. She's beautiful. I like my ladies curvy anyway. I've got a male spider that is 3 months old and I can't get any meat in him. He's almost 20 inches long, but only as big around as my thumb. I don't know what gives.

[Ally.]

We should all be so lucky to have such a good eating snake. She's beautiful. I like my ladies curvy anyway. I've got a male spider that is 3 months old and I can't get any meat in him. He's almost 20 inches long, but only as big around as my thumb. I don't know what gives.

Yeah, all but one of my balls have awesome appetites and I'm so thankful. I only have one right now who refuses to eat and I keep having to remind myself that this is normal and I don't need to panic. Lol.

[PghBall]

I think she looks great! I love the ones that rarely if ever skip a meal! I wish my 2010 Lesser girl gained like yours. She finally started eating small rats on a regular basis. It will be at least another year til I can get her to 1500 let alone over 2K lol.

[Solarsoldier001]

I think she looks great! I love the ones that rarely if ever skip a meal! I wish my 2010 Lesser girl gained like yours. She finally started eating small rats on a regular basis. It will be at least another year til I can get her to 1500 let alone over 2K lol.

I'm with you with my butter and Mojave girl. I feel like its going to be three years till they are up to wait -_- although the Mojave finally broke 1000grams last month XD. The butter girl will be forever :/ lol


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