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I just moved my Cal King into a 20 gallon long after being cooped up in a 5.5 gal. Good thing I did it. I thought she was too small for a 3-year old, but it appears she's about 30 inches long. But now a question. She's 3 years old and 30 inches long, but not as thick as I thought Cal Kings are....NO I'm not starving her or anything like that, she's all muscle. Can you guys please post some pics of your adult Cal Kings being held so I can get an idea of how thick they get? I'll get pics of me with her ASAP, but it won't be for a few weeks.
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1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon (Irwin, R.I.P.)

I've noticed that Cal Kings tend to thicken later in life, at 30 inches it should be thickening up pretty soon now.

However, it would not be a bad idea to take some poop to the vet and have a float done.

First you want to find a vet that works with reptiles. Talk to the vet, they may give you the plastic thing to bring it in with ahead of time.

Poop has to be fresh, put it in the fridge as soon as you find it, and then get it to the vet that day or the next morning.

A negative can be false negative, so it isn't a bad idea to have a second float done a week or so later.

For reference, a king I have that is somewhere between 30 and 36 inches weighs in at 185 grams (before feeding), measured with a postal scale that measures in 5 gram increments. She is beginning to thicken up to adult proportions now, and eats two large mice once a week.
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3.0 WC; 0.3 CB L. getula californiae
1.0 CB L. getula nigrita
0.1.1 WC; 0.0.3 CH Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata

I don't think there is anything wrong, and if there is I already have a herp vet she has seen before. I think I just may have been giving her too small mice(mice about as thick as her, like fuzzies). She has definitely thickened since I got her 3 years ago, just not to the point I thought they got to, at least not yet. I've been feeding her bigger mice, but not too big, so we'll just have to see in time.
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1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon (Irwin, R.I.P.)

At 30 inches she should be able to eat full grown adult mice.

btw - there is a theory, I'm not taking sides in it because I really don't have a clue, but there is a theory that feeding snakes prey that is small can result in an undersized head, and that they need challenges to stretch their jaws and stimulate head growth.
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3.0 WC; 0.3 CB L. getula californiae
1.0 CB L. getula nigrita
0.1.1 WC; 0.0.3 CH Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata

Well she can eat adult mice. I feed her T-Rex frozen mice size small adult. I think they were called Mice-On-Ice but the packages I have recently bought seems to imply that they have changed the name.
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1.0 Ball Python (Sultan)
0.1 California Kingsnake (Leota)
1.0 Eastern Painted Turtle (Yugi)
0.1 Red/Gold Bearded Dragon (Irwin, R.I.P.)