My girl is 2 yrs old. I got her at 150 g. After a year in my care, she's up to 1100 g. She eats like a pig, and I could count the number of refusals of food on a single hand. I tend to feed her on the upper end of the 10-15% body weight rule. I've always wondered, though, if her growth is too rapid and if she's getting fat.
In the world of fisheries, length-weight relationships for a given species is often calculated. Perhaps this would be an interesting thing to do for ball pythons on this site. We could probably generate a solid plot with enough samples and figure out where our snakes lie on the curve (above or below). The only problem is that our population of snakes is probably overweight to begin with. Anyone think this is worthwhile?
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