Well here is a better picture to give you more perspective on his size. At last weigh in last week I believe, he was around 2108g or somewhere around there, I cant remember now, dang old age
You can see here his head is in proportion to his body and his tail from the vent back is in proportion to vent forward. I notice in a lot of fat snakes, it looks like someone cut the tail off at the vent and then glued a thinner tail on. It's like the snake has huge hips lol. And that's what I'm trying to avoid. Much easier to fatten a snake up if needed than to try and slim one down.
@Gio- He was getting about a 200g large rat every 10 days. To tell you the truth, he got 1 large rat that was 240g and that lasted him about 2 weeks but he also went into shed after eating it. Before that he was eating about 160g medium rats but like I said, one was lasting him about 4 days before he started pushing and being a terror. My plan was to up him to large rats but not 240g ones as that left a huge lump in. made him quiet as a church mouse though lol. That's why I was thinking of doing a happy median of 200g as the 160ish gram ones seem to keep him tied over for about 4 days and the 240g looked a bit big. I mean once in awhile sure, I'll give him a big meal and other times give him small meals. I just need to find the happy median and then I can adjust from there.
Lol maybe next week when its feeding time for half of them, I'll drag my scale to the shop with me and weigh a few rats until I find the 200g one so I can get an idea of how big it is. Sure the gals working there will give me grief but I've known them a long time so its all good haha.
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