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Guessing Approx Age of young BP
I have recently purchased a young BP from a reptile store here in the UK. The store owner had gone home and his son was the person who sold me my BP. Unfortunatly he did not tell me her hatch date as their company pc was down. Is there a way to tell her age approx she is 12 inches in length she is quite well filled out in her body and healthy and very tame. I have not been back to the store but am curious as to her real age.

I love her and she facinates me more every day more,
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Re: Guessing Approx Age of young BP
12 inches?
Im gonna guess 6 months or younger.
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I'd say a Aug /Sept hatch date
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It is very difficult to guess the age of a ball python given that there are so many factors that affect growth. I would suggest you call the store and ask
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"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
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Re: Guessing Approx Age of young BP
I love the babies. They're so cute! (wow, i hope my friends don't know i said that.)
Makes me want a new baby ball. Mine are growing up so fast.
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Re: Guessing Approx Age of young BP
my '08 girl was hatched in late aug and is up to 23-24 inches
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Re: Guessing Approx Age of young BP
The store have said to me she hatched last April 08.
Her size is 73g AND 13 INCHES APPROX
She is fed on a rat pup once a week as per the intructions of the person I got her from.
From what I have been told here in the UK by experienced people she is possibly much younger.
Any advice would be much appreciated. She has been home for a week I tried to get her to feed today but she was not interested.
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Re: Guessing Approx Age of young BP
april 08 73 grams? sounds like a little underweight to me...but do i know im a newb
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Re: Guessing Approx Age of young BP
 Originally Posted by azpythons
april 08 73 grams? sounds like a little underweight to me...but do i know im a newb
I would agree but she is not or should as I say she does not look it to me. I suspect she is far younger, I had the choice of 3 at the store there were 5 but they said they were all the same age but the others were not yet strike feeding. So as a very experienced animal person but a newby in snakes I suspect she is much younger than they said. But why would they say she was older? All the royals they had were the same age or sub adults.
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Re: Guessing Approx Age of young BP
prolly jus didnt know, and said the first thing that popped into their mind, was it a chain pet store, ah well actually most pet stores ive ran into dont know the first thing bout their snakes from age to sex to type haha j.k. but i wuldnt be suprised.....
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