One problem with breeding a smaller snake is it takes a tremendous amount of body wieght to produce eggs. A 1500 gram snake can weigh as little as 900 grams(or less) after laying a clutch. Anyone who has bred these snakes has seen how deflated and the dramtic loss of weight body mass afterwards. There skin looks like its hanging on them.
You do that with a smaller younger snake and the effect can be even more. Now some snakes never get real big(like people) and if they are an established adult 3+ years old who eats regularly but never gets larger than I would say yeah shes healthy just a runt. You wont see a huge clutch but long term she will be fine.
Many breeders feel the long term maximum growth of the female will be stunted by breeding too small which causes the animal to loose so much body weight and then always trying to recover instead of continuing to grow. So if you just wait for her to get a little larger she will recover faster, easier and continue to grow. Age is also a very important factor. Older, healthy but small OK, young and small not as good.
I have a 3500 gram virgin pastel that is ready to ovulate and I'm crossing my fingers for big things
The best advice with these guys is patience
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