Skinny ball python

[FluffysMyBabe]

My ball python is 31/2 long and is about 2" in diameter at the wide part is he to skinny?

[Foxton]

Well a picture is worth a thousand words.

[magicmed]

From what you describe, way too skinny. As stated a pic would help. But a 3 and a half for long bp should be over 2 inches in my experience. That's just me though

[DVirginiana]

As already said, a picture is really needed here. But information about what you're feeding and how often you're feeding would be helpful. Also, pythons that are really emaciated tend to have visible spines and an almost triangle-like body shape; does your snake show either of those signs?

[FluffysMyBabe]

he does not have a visible spine nor is he triangle shape. he is currently eating small rats from rodent pro. people say feed whats the biggest part of his body i dont find it helpful cause if hes skinny, he will have smaller pray items.

[JLC]

It's really impossible to judge based on a vague description of length and width. Such things are notoriously difficult to estimate and then that inaccurate measurement gets even further degraded as the reader tries to interpret it in their own head based on what they THINK you mean.

If your ball python is taking small rats on a regular, weekly (or mostly weekly) basis, then I'm sure it's fine, as far as body weight goes, unless it's got some kind of critical parasite load, which is extremely uncommon in captive bred ball pythons.

Young ball pythons sometimes grow in length before they put on more girth...making them look long and leaner than how you may picture a typical ball python. There's nothing wrong with that.

[FluffysMyBabe]

He's not that young he's 3 1/2 years. I'll post pics.

[200xth]

people say feed whats the biggest part of his body i dont find it helpful cause if hes skinny, he will have smaller pray items.

If he is skinny, and you're feeding him regularly, he will gain weight and girth even if he starts off on smaller prey.

[FluffysMyBabe]

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery//sho...mageuser=59478
photo.

[JLC]

He's not that young he's 3 1/2 years. I'll post pics.

These guys can live 40+ years...so it's still pretty young and he's still got some growing to do, even if he's likely come close to his max length.