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lukeraymont
Snake mite

United Kingdom
38 Posts

Posted - 13/10/2011 :  17:59:12  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
hey everyone just wondering what sort of weight would you expect a 3 1/2 foot- 4 foot cb 2009 brb to be just as im looking at one haha. im getting an addiction

1.1.0 corn snakes(jake and dot)
0.1.0 leopard gecko(gordon)
1.0.0 brb(rocky 'bal' boa)
1.0.0 praying mantis (herbert)

CDN_Blood
Rainbow oddball

Canada
489 Posts

Posted - 14/10/2011 :  13:43:38  Show Profile  Visit CDN_Blood's Homepage  Send CDN_Blood a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
I've never weighed a single snake in 24 years, lol. I just fail to see the point, personally. If the thing looks and acts healthy, it's all good in my book.

I think weight is more based on individual animals and one's keeping habits (e.g. food intake vs. how much exercise it gets).

Of course, those with females that are breeding would be keeping those particular animals more on the heavy side, while males tend to be about 20% smaller than a female of the same age.

There are a lot of factors at play for such a thing. The animal's sex will be a big factor in weight (of course), and a lot of people tend to feed their RBs very small food items, so that's going to have a large impact.

I realize this is of no help to answer your question, but the thread was just sitting there so I thought I'd get the ball rolling

TODD
25 Years of Commitment and Responsibility in Private Herpetoculture

Edited by - CDN_Blood on 14/10/2011 13:45:15
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Shinslayer19
New Member

USA
71 Posts

Posted - 24/10/2011 :  15:28:09  Show Profile  Send Shinslayer19 an AOL message  Send Shinslayer19 a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
I agree to an extent with CDN. If your animal is healthy and eats on a regular basis a proper sized meal then you don't really need to know the weights. However. I keep a pretty stable record of my snakes weights. Mainly because I breed mine. It is good to know when they are building or when they are off food and how much they are losing and if they have gotten back up to the previous years weight before breeding them again.
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