Are they the right size?

[evan385]

I have two normal ball pythons. Male is around 6-8 months old I don't know exactly but my female is one year and three months old. I was hoping to get some opinions on what you all think. As far as I know the female is around 700-800 grams probably closer to seven and she is about two and a half feet long. My male is 200-300 grams and two feet long, he was malnourished when I got him he's put on some weight in the month that I have him. So I was wondering are they about the right size for their age? Also are they anything but normal? Sorry about my female's picture idk what happened to it, got cut in half or something but you can see all that's there how big she is. I will post a better picture of her when I can. Her pic is first, male's pic is second.

[Kinra]

They both look like normals, though the male has a nice reduced pattern.

Their weights sound okay, the female seems a little on the smallish side to me, but still okay. Is that an old picture of the female? She doesn't look like a 700-800g snake.

[Skittles1101]

They look healthy to me. Unfortunately they all grow at different rates so as long as they are eating proper sized meals and look healthy like they do then you shouldn't be worried

[evan385]

They both look like normals, though the male has a nice reduced pattern.

Their weights sound okay, the female seems a little on the smallish side to me, but still okay. Is that an old picture of the female? She doesn't look like a 700-800g snake.

It's a bad picture, she's at least double the girth of the male and half a foot longer. Maybe be smaller for her size because she is a rescue and the friend I took her from had no idea what he was doing. He was feeding mice that were much too small and not often enough his brother told me that he didn't feed her for two months this was when she was young also she didn't eat for two months after she broke her jaw. And assuming they grow an average of a foot a year that would be an inch a month so she would be close to three feet right now if she was fed right her whole life. I don't have a scale, since I heard that they eat 10% of body weight per week and she eats 70-80 grams small rats I just did that times ten to get that weight.

[evan385]

I'll post a better pic of her showing her full size when I have the chance.

[Annarose15]

Definitely invest in a scale so you can track their weights. I agree that they look pretty good, but if they go off feed or other issues arise you don't want to have just estimates to compare to know when to worry about weight loss.

[evan385]

Definitely invest in a scale so you can track their weights. I agree that they look pretty good, but if they go off feed or other issues arise you don't want to have just estimates to compare to know when to worry about weight loss.

I will when I get a job. Right now i'm breeding rats so i'm good on food. I barely make enough money working around the house to pay for rodent block and pine bedding. As soon as I get a job i'm getting a scale, building a snake rack, getting some morphs and i'm gonna start breeding.

[AK907]

They both look like normals, though the male has a nice reduced pattern.

Their weights sound okay, the female seems a little on the smallish side to me, but still okay. Is that an old picture of the female? She doesn't look like a 700-800g snake.

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Judging by the picture I will give her 400-500 grams at most. Neither look too bad, though.

[evan385]

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Judging by the picture I will give her 400-500 grams at most. Neither look too bad, though.

It's a bad picture, she is one year and three months old and if a six month old ball python can be 600 grams I know for fact she is more than 500 grams. I'll post some better pictures here shortly and you'll see she's much bigger than she looks in the first pictures

[evan385]

For now i'll say that she's two thirds the width of a dollar bill and two and a half feet long.