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    weight and length

    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???
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    Re: weight and length

    the best way to fatten her up would be mice i think
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    Re: weight and length

    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....
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    1 midland painted turtle
    1 bernese mountain dog
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    Re: weight and length

    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
    ~~~Kevin~~~
    1.3 Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (george, checkers, turk and squirt)

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    Re: weight and length

    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!!!
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    1 midland painted turtle
    1 bernese mountain dog
    1 half siamese cat

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    Re: weight and length

    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
    ~~~Kevin~~~
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    Re: weight and length

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

    garter grub?...what is garter grub?

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    Re: weight and length

    Quote Originally Posted by Hornets23 View Post
    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.
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    Re: weight and length

    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!!!!
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    1 midland painted turtle
    1 bernese mountain dog
    1 half siamese cat

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