I agree with what you are saying. What if the snake was a midget, right? I mean why is that not a possibility?



I ask you this, though. If you were to take a human baby that was born at 8 lbs. and in a year weighed 15 lbs. would you not be somewhat concerned as to if there were a problem? And even though you have ran tests it might turn out the baby is indeed a midget, which does not mean there is anything wrong with the baby, it's just small. None the less wouldn't you have still ran tests to be sure nothing was wrong simply because the weight is way off the charts of the average?



Add to that how do we know what the "normal" rate of growth for a baby is? Well, I believe it's based on an average of healthy babies and that "norm" probably changes from time to time depending on the average rate of growth of human babies as time progresses.



I beleive that's where you can come up with what is a normal growth rate for a ball python. Take the average weight at certain age intervals of healthy ball pythons and anything comparable to those readings should be considered as "normal". Any drastic deviations should be considered as abnormal and therefor may need to be examined.



I mean how else would you possible be able to make a judgement call on anything related to health if you didn't look at the factors this way?



I'm not saying if you do find a major deviation there must be something wrong I'm just saying it's probably a good idea to examine the situation to make sure there is not a problem.



And I'm really surprised no one in here decided to jump on the fact there is one year old female that weighs 150 grams. I've been reading this forum for 8 mos and have seen more comments on a one year old that weighs 250 grams. What's the deal? Does no one else in this forum think that's a little small and may be something to worry about?



Hell, when I posted my snake gained 150grams in 4 months I got more comments about that being a little slow for growth. I just don't get it in here sometimes. You try to learn then something comes at you at 90 degrees and makes you wonder what the hell is going on here. Sorry, I'm just frustrated now and I can't figure out why the hell nobody has commented on a 150gram year old female except me. What am I missing here???? Sorry this is so long!
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