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Weight Gain
Approximately how many grams do ball pythons gain per feeding? I have one that gained 15g in 4 days. Another that gained 13g in 3 weeks. And another that gained 10g in 6 days. This is all a couple days after feeding. The batteries in my scale are new, FYI. So is that typical? Just wondered since the weights vary with the number of days since I weighed last.
Last edited by Samurai; 04-11-2019 at 10:19 AM.
0.1 Lemon Blast (CV Exotics)
1.0 Pastel Blade Clown (E-Squared Reptiles)
1.0 Pastel 100% het G-Stripe (HB Reptiles)
0.1 Pastel 100% het G-Stripe (HB Reptiles)
1.0 Normal 66% het Orange Ghost (HB Reptiles)
0.1 Spider 66% het Orange Ghost (HB Reptiles)
1.0 Enchi (Local)
1.0 Mojave Spider (HB Reptiles)
0.1 Mojave Spider (HB Reptiles)
0.1 Pewter 100% het G-Stripe (HB Reptiles)
0.1 Pastel (HB Reptiles)
1.0 Black Pastel 100% het Ghost (Peterson Reptiles)
0.1 Pastel Clown (ML Exotics)
0.1 Spinner 100% het G-Stripe (REK Reptiles)
1.0 Spider 66% het Clown 50% het Albino (HB Reptiles)
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Weight fluctuates so much with feeding, drinking, defecating and passing urates. I only really record weights after sheds as that is usually when my snakes are at their emptiest.
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Re: Weight Gain
I used to be pretty meticulous about weighing frequently. Now I just go by body condition most of the time and weigh maybe every few months. There's no set or predictable amount of weight a snake will gain. Too many variables.
BALL PYTHONS: 1.0 Pied/Clark, 1.0 Pastel Vanilla Super Stripe/Sunny, 0.1 Dragon Fly/Buffy, 0.1 Pastel Vanilla Yellow Belly/Cher, 0.1 BEL (Mojave Lesser)/Arya, 0.0.1 Normal/Norm, 0.1 Cinnamon Enchi/Peaches, 1.0 Cinnamon Calico/Yoshi, 0.1 Pewter Het Dreamsicle/Ariel
BOAS: 0.1 Dumeril's/Memphis, 0.1 BCL/Artemis, 1.0 BCO/Grimm, 0.1 Suriname BCC/Rhubarb
CORN SNAKES: 0.0.1/Mushu
MORELIA: 0.1 Bredli/Zelda, 0.1 Granite IJ/Bridget, 0.1 Caramel Diamond Jungle/Pixie
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Re: Weight Gain
Yeah, weighing after a feed is the worst time for consistency or accuracy. Prey size varies as does digestion time and how much they may have peed or pooped. Day before a feed is better as they're done digesting and may have pooped too, but if there wasn't a poop that week it will be an inflated measurement which is something to keep in mind.
I pretty much only weigh for records purposes when I find a poop and it looks like they're "empty". Sometimes at sheds, though most of mine don't bother pooping after a shed and do that whenever, so that isn't often the empty weight for me.
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