Quote Originally Posted by wendhend View Post
Breanna, sorry if anything I said in that message to you this morning did not make sense. I had just worked a long 12-hour night shift and was about to go to bed. It sounds like she may have been ready and reabsorbed. You do usually have to palpate a litte harder to feel anything on more hefty corns, though, but of course you don't want her to regurgitate her mouse.
You made perfect sense to me!

Her safety is my first priority. I may put the male in with her in a few days and see if I see the same behavior. If I don't, then I'll just wait and do as planned this spring. That gives her time to do some more growing and I'm okay with that!

Maybe my other female (who's a month younger than the bloodred) will go through a growth spurt this summer. The male is a year later than her and he's already almost at her current size. She's my most active corn snake and I swear she's my slowest grower! I originally purchased the male for her (he's an Anery motley het amel and she's a snow motley) and a hypo lavender PH motley for the bloodred. However, it looks like I might use the anery motley on the bloodred to hopefully prove out her het amel and then the following year use the hypo lavender.

Corns are so interesting with their growth rates!
the two 2011s are 300g and 180g
the two 2012s 150g and 60g.

I've also got a miami phase corn that's more of a pet. She's a 2012 and about 110g. I sold an Alabama phase back in January. I bet if I still had her she would be pushing 200g by now. She was super aggressive but a killer eater and fast grower. I just find it amusing how slow/quick some of them grow.