weight and length

[Snake lover 3-25]

do any of you weigh and measure your snakes regularly???

what are your results??? but first i have some questions....

i just did mine and they came out like this... the weights came out pretty funny all ending in 8 lol

meadow-31" 168 grams

sooty-21" 58 grams

baby-17" 48 grams

new girl (unnamed)-29" 68 grams

the new girl is so thin i'm really worried.... i plan to release her but her chances... being this thin..... couldn't be very good... only 2" shorter than meadow and 100 grams less...... this winter was real hard on them..... and i think that she stopped eating (due to her pregnancy) very shortly after she was out of hibernation.... and yet she still deivered 22 healthy babies.... no stillbors or jellybeans!!! how can this be??? and more importantly how can i get her to gain alot of weight quickly???? i've been feeding her every day..... and every day she eats.... but not very much so i think maybe it'll take some time before she can take a whole meal..... but until then can i keep feeding her however much she eats every day????

and also.... her babies.... i have fed them twice so far.... they were born on sun.... but diff. ones don't eat every time???? i think that all of them have eaten at least once.... but why would the ones that ate last time not eat this time???

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

the best way to fatten her up would be mice i think

[Snake lover 3-25]

yeah.... she won't have anything to do with them..... the only things she's eaten so far are garter grub which i got free with my mice from my supplier and night crawlers....

[crzy_kevo]

hmm have you tried fish or frogs or toads

and i measured george a few days ago when i got her she was 19" and missing 1" of her tail
now she is 22" long and i have had her for 2 months and she has shed twice
i guess if she is growing this fast i must be doing something right

[Snake lover 3-25]

not yet... i ran out of tailapia butt i never even thought of frogs!!! thanks!!!

lol sounds like she's gonna be a big girl!!! you should try and keep her eating all through the winter so she can grow really big.... then if you decide to breed her she'll give you lots of babies!!!

[crzy_kevo]

ya see im planning on brumating her in the winter though and i wouldn't want her to have too many babies but at this rate she could end up 30" by winter

[Snake lover 3-25]

lol yup she'll be a big one!!! although my 30 ish in female only had 18 her first time..... lol good luck!!!

[Hornets23]

garter grub?...what is garter grub?

[Elliot]

garter grub?...what is garter grub?

It's a product made by T-rex (I think?) that's made of fish and other things kind of mixed together. I haven't seen any place that has it in stock for quite a while now though.

[Snake lover 3-25]

yup.... the guy i get my mice from had some left in his freezer.... they actually went out of business a wile back..... they sold lots of reptile food...... snake steaks.... garter grub.... idk what else.... but the garters love it!!!!