A Kitchen scale that does grams is perfect. I got mine at wal-mart for around $20. Also, a "Tare" feature is a great feature. Turn on scale, put bowl on scale, hit "tare" (It zero's it out) and then put snake in bowl. You'll get the actual weight of the snake without having to weigh the bowl, then the snake, and subtract the difference etc. (I'm lazy) hehe. Good luck! Keep us posted!