measuring the shed is a common mistake and I'm sure there's a hundred people doing it right now. No need to apologize for doing something that most of us here have done before.

If you're looking to measure a snake, one easy way is to place it in a large sterilite container and watch it for a while. Often, the snake will stretch out along the edge while exploring it's new environment. You can mark the position of the tail when the snake's nose gets to a corner and measuring from the mark to that corner will give you about as accurate a measurement as you can hope for when dealing with a live snake.
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The Reticulated Rattler

1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets

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• Exciting Times - corythreatt, Tue Jul 22 08:43:15 2008
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• exactly!......... - DMong, Tue Jul 22 10:52:28 2008
• Sorry - corythreatt, Tue Jul 22 13:16:45 2008
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• Common Misconception - Trolligans, Wed Jul 23 10:43:57 2008
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• RE: Exciting Times - ratsnakehaven, Thu Jul 24 01:02:16 2008
• Ball Park Measure Technique - BillMcgElaphe, Fri Jul 25 08:34:16 2008