overweight BP? please help

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

I'm not going to argue w you WW but in the second photo you posted, without knowing that snakes age and size, that is not a good example. If that is a yearling female, it would very likely thin out in the coming months. It does not look to be an adult but that photo is deceiving and there is no way to tell how big it really is.

With the exception of the kinks and what looks like some bloating/blockage action going on, that looks a lot like one of my yearling females that hit 1000 grams and then went on her fast.

[Amp625]

okay well thanks to everyone i really appreciate a lot of my worry has been because he is a bit stressed because i upraded hides and changes to a different substrate and hes been to active, but thanks to all

[Maixx]

Here's a photo of an adult female ready to breed. She has good weight on her for the season, but she is NOT overweight:


Ball pythons certainly can become obese, once they reach adulthood, and breeders warn against allowing this to happen, because of the dramatic reduction in fertility. (The other health issues are bad news, too). Ball pythons are individuals, and some of them would eat a medium rat every single week, year-round, when not bred! This is too much food for a ball python, and they will get fat.

Pretty snake, but you should post a pic holding her, in that tank its hard to judge her size.
A pic of her compared to your arm would be a better size scale.

[WingedWolfPsion]

The girl in the photo there weighed about 2100 grams at the time the photo was taken, and went on to produce an 8 egg clutch the following summer. Her name is Drucilla, and she's a het albino.

Foschi, the photo of the fat snake was posted by a forum member in another thread, who labeled it as an example of a fat ball python.

I don't have any photos of my big female when she was portly, so you'll just have to take my word for it.

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

Foschi, the photo of the fat snake was posted by a forum member in another thread, who labeled it as an example of a fat ball python.

I'm sorry, this is the one I was talking about. The third one, not the second. That's the one that doesn't appear to be a sexually mature adult. Plus it looks like it has other "issues".
My fault.

[mues155]

agreed not overweight at all.
Bps are very hefty snakes. He will grow much larger than what hes at now and will be just fine.