I've wondered this...I have those baby Florida kings from bluerosy. I got them in October, I don't know how old they were, maybe a couple of months?? Now, Florida kings are known to get *really* big for getula right, like 5-6 feet?



The biggest one (hypo female) is already hitting 24" or so, and eating several hoppers or weaners a week (about 2-3/week). The smallest one (poss het male), eats MORE relative to his body weight but is still significantly smaller...but he's eating a hopper or weaner and pooping about every 2-3 days, still. He's maybe 16-20".

They're kept very similarly--same temp range, offered food as soon as they seem hungry...but they're not growing the same. And they're siblings, so it's not like they're from different lines. I keep 'em warm-ish...on the cool end it's room temp, on the warm end, upper 80s. And so far it's working. I'm sort of wandering if I can breed the hypo later this year--at this rate maybe she'll hit 3' plus before 2011!!! She's damn pretty too. I'm loving it. And hell, I've got a baby retic (early 09) that's almost 8' by now, hitting over 15 lbs which is as high as my scale goes.



But then I have my lamproprophis...they have good feeding responses for the most part, but just aren't eating or growing as fast, more like 1-2X per week, and much slower growth, despite processing and pooping pretty quickly. They'll eat, poop in 48-72 hours...but they just aren't growing as quick as the others. I've tried upping the warm end to the low-mid 90s but it didn't change anything over the course about 2 months.

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