Growth rate of mainlands.

[CloudtheBoa]

My girl was maintenance fed when I got her. 3’ and 150 grams at 6 months....they were feeding her a fuzzy mouse every 2 weeks. :/

I bumped her to rat pups and then weaned pretty quickly, but stuck to 2 weeks for awhile. I started out 10-15% of weight, then 15-20%, and after a year or two I went to pretty much whatever she would eat weekly. Now she gets whatever leaves a big bump once a month, or a smaller prey item every 2 weeks.

She’s always been a spotty grower, even on a heavier feeding schedule. At 1 year she was 4.5’, at 2 she was just over 7’, at 3 she was estimated at 8.5’-9’, at 4 roughly 9.5’-10’, and at 5 I now estimate her at 10’-12’ but I have no idea. People online have posted 12’ retics that look much smaller than her and 14’ retics that look barely bigger. I figure they probably have no idea of how big their’s are, either. Last I weighed her, she’s a lean 24 lbs and is gaining weight still, albeit slower than at the beginning of the year (she doubled her weight between Nov/Dec and Feb/March).

I really need to measure her. Haha


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