Breeding Questions

[littleindiangirl]

It's pretty odd to have a male larger than the female, are you sure they are sexed correctly? Might not hurt to check again.

[djvip510]

Well the male has been eating much more than the female since he was young and he is older than her...She just began eating consistently for me over 2 months ago and since then all has been well with their eating habits.

[littleindiangirl]

Got a pic? Females usually grow larger than males, and with her being 2500 grams, she should be fairly large, and the male should be HUUUUGE for his sex. Males are usually very lean and short when next to a big female. That's why its odd, no matter how much you feed him, he really shouldnt blow up to being a foot longer than her unless she's very short and fat.

[djvip510]

Sorry, I don't have a camera...

[littleindiangirl]

The female weighs 2489g. The temps are 90-80 during the day using a "temp grad." and 80-70 during the night.

I am trying to feed her a white mouse, a little smaller than the biggest part of her body. This is smaller than before, she has ate bigger mice but I downsized because of recent troubles.

I'm sorry, but this seems very odd to me as well. Back in March of this year, you had said you were feeding her a mouse, that was a little smaller than the biggest part of her body.

I think your weights are wrong. A bp can eat a mouse when 200 grams, a baby. I have ASF's that weigh 25 grams, the approximate size of a mouse. Those are also a bit smaller than the widest part of his body. They are perfect for my male bp. He is young, born in April of this year.

If your female really is only a little larger around than the mouse... That coupled with you saying the male is larger then her, leads me to believe that she does not weigh 2500 grams.

[djvip510]

I'm sorry, but this seems very odd to me as well. Back in March of this year, you had said you were feeding her a mouse, that was a little smaller than the biggest part of her body.

I think your weights are wrong. A bp can eat a mouse when 200 grams, a baby. I have ASF's that weigh 25 grams, the approximate size of a mouse. Those are also a bit smaller than the widest part of his body. They are perfect for my 200 gram male bp. He is young, born in April of this year.

If your female really is only a little larger around than the mouse... That coupled with you saying the male is larger then her, leads me to believe that she does not weigh 2500 grams.

That's honestly what her weight was a few weeks-month ago. I have been feeding her 2-3 mice every 5-7 days. She has gotten much bigger since I posted on here last.

[dr del]

Hi,

The male is 3 1/2 long and the female is 2 1/2 feet

The female weighs 2489g.

The weight is current, the length is from over a month ago when she was stretched out.

Ok,

Here is my littlest girl - forgive the quality of the pic I just took it in a hurry.



Now you can clearly see when stretched out she will be longer than the marked two and a half feet.

She is just slightly larger around than a jumbo mouse - similar to what your female was in March apparently.

She weighs 596g.

Do you see why we are asking questions here?


dr del

[dr del]

Hi,

This on the other hand is my 2600+g female. The bowl next to her has a diameter of just under 8 inches to give you an idea of scale.




dr del

[rabernet]

You probably need to re-calibrate your scales, because for a female that was only eating a mouse the same girth of her to gain about 2000 grams since March would have to be a record of some kind. And not healthy weight gain by any means. Do you know just how short 2.5 feet is? She must be as thick as 2 soda cans to be 2500 grams at 2.5 feet.

[rabernet]

See how thick Derek's snake is? If yours is the same weight and 1/2 the length of her (because I'm willing to bet that's a 5 foot long snake in his picture), then she's got to be twice as thick as his.