switching from one week to two weeks?

[Neal]

I think even with one or two snakes, a scale is a pretty important thing to own. My scale was one of the first things I got after I got Tali and it was a cheapo 15 dollar one- if she decided to go on a food strike and not eat, I didn't want to have to rely on eyeballing how much weight she lost. And I think for me taking care of her, it's a good thing to know- she's about 200grams so her prey should be about 20-30grams. It's easier for me to explain to my pet shop 'I have a 200gram bp, and her meal needs to about 20-30grams' then 'I have a BP whose about :makes gesture: this fat.' Plus, when/if I start ordering feeders online, all it lists is grams, not size. If I have an idea of how much she weighs, I can figure out what prey she needs better then just guessing because I AM a newbie and I don't breed. I don't know the average sizes and how they relate to each other, so for me personally as a newbie, it made a lot of sense to get a scale.

Right I never said it wasn't something needed, I said look at how many people that only keep a snake or two that actually have one and that answer was not many. I know what you're saying but you're not listening to what I'm saying. A pet shop, like 90%+ will not have a scale and they don't even know the weight of their BP's much less know how to judge weight. Then to top it off they're not going to weigh their food, if you have a pet shop close to you that does that then you're one of the very very very very very few, less than 10% lucky ones. What all of you that recommend the 10-15% weight thing fail to realize is that was for a hatchling BP. Once you start getting them older, a year old bp that's underfed could weigh 400 grams that is only because it's long and not because it's thick, so that 10-15% weight thing completely goes out of the window. If people are going to recommend it then they need to state all the facts. The best rule of thumb is to stick by the thickest part of the snake and in all honesty my 8 year old nephew picked up the right food for a BP since I've been explaining BP care to him. Also ordering frozen it list a wide range of grams, and a person who has one snake isn't going to order frozen feeders, yes while you may do it and it works for you, for the newbies it needs to stop being told to unless like I said the person saying it explains that it's a guideline for hatchlings. Also just because you have a scale doesn't mean it's accurate.

For instance, I have a scale and I never use it. If I want to get a weight to see how much a snake has grown then I use it but for the most part it sits there.