I don't have any fat snakes and i feed them all they can eat and as often as they want. I do have one fat snake in my collection and it is barelt fed once every 3 weeks. It is still fat. it has fatty deposits between the mucsle and inner layer of the skin. It looks like little fat bobs or bubbles.



I had another one like this several years ago that i got from my friend. It was a hybrid and he said it was feeding on to many fat fuzzies mice which he was feeding herZ) Fuzzies have a higher percentage of fat than adult mice. But it was not the case with his snake either , as no matter what i did this snake would not thin out. I barely fed it and hardly looked at it. Just threw water and shavings into the cage for months at a time.



What these fat snakes are is , for lack of a better word, a deformity. No diffferent than a snake with bulgeyes or kinked spine.



I still have that female brooks with the lard A$$ body. But I hardly remember when i fed her last. It may have laid two clucthes with not even a mouse fed inbewtween. I just open the drawer and close it real fast because she is so disgustingly fat. So I don;t feed it and save money. She breeds , lays eggs and still keps getting fatter. I don'y know how long this snake could suvive without a meal but I bet at least 2 years. Maybe three. It is a fmale brooks king and quite a whopper.



I really need to take a picture of it and show this freak . I also have pics of the hybrid that I mention before that had the same fat deposits all over her body. I did a autopsy and took pics. Thing is, I posted the pics here before but the mods immediatly erased them. But what the pics showed was the fat deposits were subdecaneuos (did i spell dat right?). rather than surrounding the ovum area. I think A truly fat snake would have to much fat deposits which will block the semen from getting past the fat beause that is where fat collects. In the ovum. ZThen the sperm can't get to the eggs to fertilize them . Now then there is also is a truly obese snake and one that has never missed a schedlued meal AND missed a few breeding seasons on top of that. All this happened to the poor snake because the keeper was afriad to put a male in with her for what reasons??/:



A) probably because she was to short,

B) or to young to coplulate.

C) he liked fat snakes



-all in the name of keeping snakes healthy..dum da dum dumn,,,,Hope ya got something out of it or maybe somebody add to these thoughts. something. ANYTGHING, to clear up this fat debackle





..ya right


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