Quote Originally Posted by van_garret2000 View Post
She deffinalty looks like an obese jungle. When snake are really obese they start to get blobs building up on their side which it looks like yours is developing that.

WHen jungles get older they loose a lot of their color. Most people don't know that when they get a nice bright hatchling. SOme can reatin it but most do get duller. I have one that isn't amazingly colored but very nicely colored for it's age.

$90 is a smoking deal, as long as it doesn't die early because of health issues from being overweight. Because of her weight even cutting her feeding down more then a med every ten days would be good. A med every 2 weeks and mabey skipping to 3 weeks every once and a while could help till she gets to a better weight.


Awesome, thanks so much for the advice. Once we get over the mite infestation < thank God for quarantine> I'll probably take her out more to make sure she gets some exercise. To my knowledge its been a week since she ate so gave her a small rat yesterday. I think I will move her to a ten day feeding schedule, atleast untill she thins out some.
Going to try to get her into a vet soon to check for internal parasites as well.

Good to know about the color fading, Is there any way to make a guestimet on her age given size/color? Id like to breed her once shes healthy, but I worry about her being to old.


she def has those globbys on her sides too. Poor girl. fortunately shes pretty active all things considered. I have high hopes she will do well.