Stimson's size?

[sweety314]

Feel free to bounce thread if necessary

Felix is (probably) 3.5' long, at last wt, he's been growing but since I'm at work I couldn't tell ya his grams. *sigh* He's been eating like a champ, even when he was shedding. I didn't even catch him blue. I found the shed while I was cleaning some poo after the fact. About a month ago I fed him a small mouse and found it too big, and lately he's been eating fuzzy rats, 1/week, and he's about 3" ??? around.

Is he going to mature much bigger? I've read the Children's stay really small. It's okay one way or the other. Now that I have Hera and Wrigley is such a porker, Pinky is on her way home to us (soon), a bigger one isn't on the dream horizon. I was just curious as to whether or not to start planning for a bigger (eventual) home for him < and whether or not he's a BABY still and will outgrow his biting >.

I have GOT to get A camera and get some pics! Aaaaaaaarrrgh!

Thx for taking the time to respond to my question.

RuLyn

[monkeywrench133]

I did some quick research and found a couple sites that say Stimson's top out at 87-88cm. I think that would translate to about 3ft, so if your boy is 3.5ft, he's probably done growing. They look like beautiful animals, can't wait to see some pics of yours!

[sweety314]

Thanks. Where'd you find this info? I googled and didn't find much for Stimson's. Some for Children's but not as much about my Felix. I'm just curious where U located it.

[monkeywrench133]

http://www.armadalereptilecentre.com...tiles/stimson/

http://www.herpo.com/pythons/stimsons.html

I didn't find anything comprehensive, as you can see, neither of these pages has much more info than, "this is what it looks like, they get about this big"

[sweety314]

thanks for the links. They're not ones that < I > found.

[recycling goddess]

http://www.a1pythons.com/childrens.html

here's another

[sweety314]

After posting these I went home and weighed & meas'd Felix before feeding him last week.


He was 31" (just hanging) & 185g, so maybe he's still a baby after all. I guess I'll just have to keep him to find out.

R.

[tigerlily]

He sounds close to full grown. I believe those little guys top out around 3 feet max.