Aging a ball python

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Why on earth your breeder couldn't have spared you the details when you purchased the snake I don't know, my breeder handed me the tracking sheet for my royal that he had been keeping since hatching to the sale. I could see when he was assist fed, when he shed, and when he eventually struck by himself.

At least you have the rough age of your pet now, pick a date in "late September" and make that his unofficial birthday.

When you buy at a show it's very different, breeders bring hundreds of animals some being of the same mutations sometimes 1,2 or 3 placed in the same slot of the display case. Bringing ALL feeding records and being able to differentiate which record goes with which snake if 3 of the same mutation are housed in the same slot is Simply IRREALISTIC and not the way show work...... well unless you have a handful of animals to sell.