Quote Originally Posted by LGray23 View Post
He looks like a nicely patterns normal. Unfortunately, like people have wrote, it's impossible to tell unless you breed him and try to prove him out Very cute pickup
He is very much loved, already.

I finally found a scale to weigh him and he's only 134 grams.

They sent me home with 6 fuzzy mice, of which he's eaten 3 ravenously, since Sunday, 9/25.

He seems skinny to me...I can feel his spine, sort of "pyramid-ish" on his back and it's 'crinkly' where he bends.

He's not at all round or chubby and doesn't seem to be gaining any weight although since I just got the scale today, I have nothing to compare his first weigh in to.

From everything I've read here, he's been pretty much underfed since his birth, the date of which I do not know.

[PetCo feeds their snakes 1 fuzzy per week]

He's about 18-20 inches long...we're not sure exactly because it's hard to measure a snake who doesn't want to be "straightened".

Now, today, I think he's "breathing too fast" but I can't remember exactly fast he was breathing, yesterday.......

[yes, I am a fretting, worrying, nervous first-time snake mom]

We've been battling the heat/humidity issue since day one.

I have an under-tank heater, red overhead heat lamps and it hovers around the mid-80s according to the digital thermometer right above his warm-side hide.

Humidity is around 50-ish but was into the 60s until hubby drilled too-big holes in the Lexan tank lid......

Now I've got another piece of Lexan over most of the holes to increase the humidity some.

Hubby loaned me his digital IR thermometer and the floor temps are actually higher than the tank digital says.

Iggy goes back and forth between the warm/cool side often and drinks after I cuddle him.

He yawns, too.

I have a big blob of moist sphagnum moss in a hide in case he wants to go in it but so far, he's not interested.

I was going to try to make to a Repticon this weekend to get him rat pups but I'll buy them from PetCo if I can't make it.

I am so afraid he's not well and that I'm not taking care of him properly that I'm a wreck.
I've done nothing but read BP forums and websites non-stop since I got him.

[if you'd told me 2 weeks ago I'd be freaking out over my "beloved snake", I'd have said you were insane]

Any guess how old he is or if he's too 'skinny' for his length?

He just seems to be too thin, to me.