A very handy thing to have when you own snakes is a digital scale. You don't need a big, expensive professional one...a good digital kitchen scale or a small postal type scale for 20 to 30 dollars will do the job and help you track weights for your snakes.

If the age stated is correct, your snake would have been hatched in 2005. Is he a for sure male (in other words, sexed by someone who knew what they were doing)? Here's a few pics of our 05's if it helps you to compare visually. Some eat rats, some eat mice, some are female, one is male. There is a wide variety in weights which can be driven by feeding patterns, gender and in a large part genetics so there's no real "standard" for size as long as the snake is appropriate as far as weight to length ratio and feels girthy, muscular, strong and doesn't have a triangular look to it.

Ailish, 05 female (taken Feb of this year)....


Dori, another 05 female but almost twice as large as the rest of them, and a mouse eater to boot (sort of dispells a lot of myths about slower growth patterns in mice eaters LOL).....


Malachi, male 05....


Morag, female 05 (taken back in Feb as well...I really need new pics)....


Hope this gives you a bit of an overview of the difference in sizes of some of the 05's we have in our collection.