Keith, I don't have any formal records to compare, but I'm sure I can get them. It would be good to actually do a comparison.



Generally speaking the wild snakes I've seen from central Florida seem to be thinner than a typical captive snake (as you would assume) with the exception of very large males, which tend be be as "girthy" in the wild as they are in captivity.



The wild snakes in GA that I've seen were much heavier than the FL snakes by comparison. Not sure what to attibute this to. It seems they really are meant to be large and powerfully built...not "triangle shaped" although a few in FL were like that...it may be due to high parasite infestation.



My thought would be that as long as you don't have a "scale distended" obese female it should not create too much of a problem, but it would be interesting to compare the captive vs wild snake length / weights.



I would think that the lack of activity in captivity would more likely be the culprit, but I'm starting to think that they just cannot rebound enough to bred annually.

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