You can use postal scales for small snakes (and small food items) under 3 lbs. You can use a kitchen scale for things larger than that (usualy kitchen scales are good up to 10 lbs). Or you can get a more expensive digital scale, just depends what you want.

To weigh a very heavy adult snake, you can weigh yourself on a bathroom scale, record the weight, and then hold your snake and compare the weights (subtract your weight).
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• Were to get scales - boapaul, Wed Nov 8 06:28:58 2006
• RE: Were to get scales - liquidleaf, Wed Nov 8 10:27:19 2006
• RE: Were to get scales - mike31, Wed Nov 8 15:22:10 2006
• RE: Were to get scales - scaleman, Wed Nov 8 19:16:42 2006
• RE: Were to get scales - Sunshine, Wed Nov 8 20:35:06 2006
• Best source for all scales...... - Kelly_Haller, Wed Nov 8 21:07:41 2006
• Thanks Everyone, but one more ?... - boapaul, Thu Nov 9 06:00:23 2006
• probably not (and another suggestion) - voodoomagik, Thu Nov 9 16:33:30 2006
• RE: Thanks Everyone, but one more ?... - scaleman, Thu Nov 9 17:03:28 2006