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I'm just curious what the "average" weight of an 05 BP at this time of year. I know it depends on a TON of different things (when they were born in 05, male or female, rat or mouse eater, etc) but it seems like there are a lot of 05 animals for sale that weight in the 100-300g range. To me that's surprising because our 2 05 girls eat like machines and are closing in on 900g already!

Are these low weights just the result of maintenence feeding or am I seeing bad eaters for sale on the classifieds? It just seems to me like juvenile BPs ar supposed to be pretty strong eaters and so a yearling BP should weigh over 300g... thoughts?

I have some late '05 babies that are in the 300-400g range.

these are mouse feeders, which in my opinion start a little slower.

my early '05 males and females are just over 1000g.

so as you said depends on many factors.

mine range from about 320g-1150g (I only held back 2.26 and wholesaled the rest through a friend)

TomChambers

i have a late '05 male who is about 300g's. eating one f/t mouse every week or so...
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1.0 ball python "wolfgang"

I have four 05s that are in the 300g range, and 2 that are in the 200g range. One of them I got about 2 months ago and it was 130g. It was hard to get it to start eating, but now it wont stop. I just think the breeder didnt "focus" on feeding him because he didnt need him, even if he didnt sell it, he didnt need it for breeding, so why spend more than you have to on food? At least I am guessing thats the case... then again, I know someone who has babies from him from the same batch that where 300g when they got them 5 months ago and they are much bigger now.

we have 3 mid 05's that are in the 500 range feeding on rats once a week. 1 late 05 on mice in the 200 range. And our new male at 2 years old and only 1300 grams. Brian
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1.2.0 ball python (aragorn, arwen,`eowyn)
1.0.0 100% het pied (frodo)
1.0.0 columbian boa (squiggles)
1.0.0 rat snake (alabastered)
0.1.0 corn snake (baby)
0.0.2 whites tree frog (trevor, kirmet)
0.0.5 pacific green tree frogs
3.2.0 cats (rockie, bs, brownie, lerrado, kole)
1.3.0 kids (dilyen, dakota, chyanne, sierra)
Brian n Chrissy

"snakes are kind of like potato chips, you cant have just one"

I was wondering about this as well. I have an '05 female pushing 900 grams at this very moment, and she just took a medium rat today!
Either they were LATE babies, or someone isn't feeding them right.

Then again, some snakes just grow slow.
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-Man fears the beast in the Wolf because he does not understand the beast within himself.

I have an 05 female that was born in June and she is currently at 1290 grams and she is only fed MICE. She has never had one rat. So the people that say you can't get good size from feeding mice, I would have to disagree.........