Female adult pied size?

[blackcrystal22]

Thre may be a slight size difference between morph/normal but its doubtful. There IS usually a noticable size difference between males and females. As for certain localities. The desert morph may be a bit smaller but until someone posts a pic and weight of one that is 10 years old we may never know. The sahara region balls are definately larger by quite a lot but its believed this is because of the available diet & difference in climate/seasons. Not genetics. But who knows unless some scientist does genetic testing on them.

BPs fall into the catagory of having an indiscriminate growth factor. Like crocs & many other reptiles do. This means there is no way to say just how big any one BP can or will get. They continue to grow at some rate for their entire lives.

A Retic measuring 48 feet 8 inches long and weighing 983 pounds was discoverd in the village of Curugsewu in Indonesia. No one ever thought they could get that big. I bet that snake is quite old too.

Their growth will slow down & be almost un-noticable after they hit a certain size, but they are still growing. My 7 year old has still not hit 3000 grams. She is still growing. Even her head is a little bigger than it was a year ago. Her growth spurts start & stop depending on her feeding habits. Which are very scattered.

Generally you wont have a BP get any bigger than 2500 grams but 3000+ is very possible as the years go by.

Big Gunns is right, don't trust animal planet all the time. They do put up a lot of misleading information about animals, especially reptiles.
The story about the 48ft snake turned out to be false. There are scientific reasons why a snake can not survive to be that large, no matter how old it is. The climate is just not warm enough anywhere in the world to sustain an animal of that size and allow it to digest it's food.

The longest officially documented Retic was around 32ft.

BPs fall into the catagory of having an indiscriminate growth factor. Like crocs & many other reptiles do. This means there is no way to say just how big any one BP can or will get. They continue to grow at some rate for their entire lives.

Sorry, I missed this. I can understand that they GROW for the rest of their lives, but there is no way that they grow at the same RATE for the rest of their lives. Otherwise, the 42 year old ball python would have been much larger than a normal adult sized ball python. Yes they will still grow to an extent, but the growth will cease in adulthood.

Also, there's lots of reasons to agree with Big Gunns, he knows a lot about these animals.