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[Dianne]

Yes, she is small for her age. That has to do with her feeding on mice and not eating consistently.She wouldn't necessarily eat every week and I couldn't get her to eat two in a row. BPs are interesting in that their size is is not based on their age, unless they are a typical feeder. But if they don't take in a lot of calories, their body doesn't grow. That said, my girl looks plenty fat. She isn't at all malnourished looking. She is just small for her age. If you read Dianne's post above, her 2015 boy just reached 509 grams. He's almost four years old.

I have another female that is four years old and under 1200 grams. I stopped tracking because it was driving me nuts, but I know at one point she had eaten only 17 times in 73 weeks. I have tried everything from live to frozen thawed, Mice , Rats, and ASFs. She is just a finicky eater and until I breed her probably always will be.

I dropped my tracking to every two months because I like to see some change. As long as they are consistently eating, you will see the growth. They don’t all grow fast, whether that is because they were small hatchlings, getting a late start feeding, being a mouser, or not eating consistently....or any combination of those. My lemon blast, Belle, is another example. She’s a July 2018 hatchling that was late to start feeding, and didn’t feed consistently. She’s just now hit 189 grams, compared to Piper who is the same age at 253 grams, and Cuervo who is 2 months younger than either of them and 192 grams.

Since I started with boas, I was used to snakes that ate consistently all the time. My first bp (that I still have) ate exceedingly well for the first couple of years because he had been malnourished by the prior owner. Then he started acting like a typical adult male bp. It really freaked me out the first time he went months without eating, until I learned it wasn’t unheard of with them. Now if one goes off feed, I watch their weight and offer every 2-3 weeks depending on age. While they are some of the most docile snakes to own, they aren’t the easiest to keep without some angst for their owners.