My 2000 gram lemon pastel male is one of my best breeders. And he's pretty lean looking. I actually DO choose to keep my adults leaner than others do. I do worry about things like fatty liver disease. I know someone who lost a snake out of the blue, had it necropsied and that was the cause of death.

Our snakes in captivity are very well fed, most likely over-fed in our aim to get them up to breeder size, or bulk them up for breeding.

This is simply my own theory, nothing scientific to back it up, but it does worry me enough that I choose to slow grow most of my collection. I'm not racing anyone to be the "first" to produce anything, and everything I breed, it's to produce for ME first - not just to produce to sell the whole clutch off.