Jag playing around..

[zina10]

Gorgeous snake Zina. He's held his color really well. I remember the pics you posted last year. He is massive!

Those pics ? They do show off his size. I can't make pictures holding him straight up for long, to heavy, haha !!










Like all my babies, he's been allowed to grow up slowly, I don't power or even "quick grow feed" any of my snakes. Not my breeders either. To this day Jag continues to grow. They all do really, with him its just always been "more" from the day he was a little one He's my little freak. He seems to like to slither around my desk, behind the monitor, checking out everything and anything, and then returns to me/my chair and I put him back into his cage. Has just become a routine in all those years..

[Dianne]

Wow, he IS a big boy. Those pictures really show it. Such a beauty, too.

I’m a believer in slow growth myself. My adults are all fed on 2 week intervals, sometimes a few days over that, depending on my schedule. They typically get 1 prey item each, except Yang (male corn) who gets 2 mice, and Buttercup (3 year old albino bp) who gets 2-3 mice because he doesn’t like rats. I could grow them faster by feeding heavier, but I would rather they be healthy than big. Big will happen eventually.

[zina10]

Wow, he IS a big boy. Those pictures really show it. Such a beauty, too.

I’m a believer in slow growth myself. My adults are all fed on 2 week intervals, sometimes a few days over that, depending on my schedule. They typically get 1 prey item each, except Yang (male corn) who gets 2 mice, and Buttercup (3 year old albino bp) who gets 2-3 mice because he doesn’t like rats. I could grow them faster by feeding heavier, but I would rather they be healthy than big. Big will happen eventually.

I absolutely agree. Common sense dictates that over feeding isn't good nor healthy (nor indicative of a long life) in ANY species. Neither is forcing rapid growth. Some parts of the body don't keep up with that rapid growth. Just nothing good coming out of it, imho.
Well, one can get them up to breeding size faster, but even that isn't a good thing for the animal.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I don't have to make profit a priority, so I couldn't care less if I loose profit by producing possible morphs a year later then I could have. Or even if I decide to never breed them. I just don't like to stress over getting them up to size or watching the grams shoot up there fast.

Like you said, Big will happen in time. Not like feeding them more will magically create larger (then genetically predisposed) snakes. They just get up to size faster, and then they get fat.