Sorry, didn't mean to say you were doing anything wrong.

I started my post with "Beautiful white phase", and commented that, on average, a female would be bigger than 6 feet at one year.

I am of the belief that baby animals of all kinds grow phenomenally in their first year of life. Dogs, cats, geese, elephants, gorillas, monitors, pythons. It's called "grow up and survive". I certainly don't "power feed" my animals, as who knows better about when they are hungry than the snakes themselves? My year old Ornate monitor is over 4 feet long, and no one says I "power fed" him - it's just accepted that monitors (and tegus for that matter) grow like weeds in their early years. I feel the same way about snakes. In the wild they will eat whenever they can, and there's a LOT of food out there...

Chris