I stumbled across your data posting on the photo gallery and had to track your posting down. I’m currently in my third statistics class of my college career and I got a little excited seeing my hobby being mixed with my schoolwork. I hope you don’t mind me making a few comments about the data. Kudos to you for recognizing that meal size and frequency of feeding aren’t the only factors affecting the growth rate. You could make some predictions on burms if you had more snakes. You have some inconsistency in the feeding of your snake, for example you used the same food size at 10½ ft and 7 ft. the number of feedings in the six month intervals looks like 5,21,15,8,8. In order for us to be able to tell how strong of an influence weight and frequency of feeding have on the growth of the snake we must have a clear independent variable. It is unclear that the blue line is the independent variable because the size of his food was dictated by the size of the snake (ex. you can’t feed a baby snake an adult rat). It would be a huge pain but your data would be better if you had used a ratio to dictate the size of the food it should be feed (say the length times 100= weight of food in grams to use). I recognize the commitment a big snake like this is and you probably won’t have many more in the future. Since you have other snakes try to make your feedings closer to the line and see what the effect is. Judging by the photos you have it looks like you have a perfect size and healthy looking animal. Your data paints a clear picture of what kind of feeding schedule to use and the cost of feeding the animal is. I just purchased a digital scale and I’m going to use your data as a guide for feeding my 3-month-old burm. I’ll try to post the results for you. thanks for the good stuff.

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