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Could somebody direct me to a picture of an adult human with an adult P. regius? I'd like to see a good comparison. Also what is an average weight on a good-sized adults. I know what the books say but I'd like to hear about people's pets. If you're feeling real nice you could even write the mass in Imperial units so I don't hafta do any math converting Thanks. I'd like to say again that everybody here is really great and really helpful

This one isn't with a person but the yardstick and $5 USA might be familiar to you. She weighed between 6 and 7 lbs (about 3,000 grams). I've heard of bigger but she is as big as I've had so far. Unfortunately I had to sell her to finance a new project.

Holly cow! Taht was a big girl.

I love that girl! I can only hope that my babies will grow out to 3000 Grms!

I feel saddened that you no longer have her!

sincerely.
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Longtang. I like snakes and rats.

Apparently there are a few out there that are more than twice her weight. I'd love to see one some day. After selling my two biggest and also my only proven het albino girl I've still got two left that are around 3,000 gram so maybe they'll get to 6,000 some day.

This one is right at 3,000 grams and still growing fast the last two years. I just found out she has both tape worms and Strongyloides (pet store girl - never assume they're clean just because they do well!) so I’m now having the incredible joy of treating my entire collection (half way through the 2 week 250 dose plan). Maybe she will REALLY take off now.

Hi Randy –

Funny you should mention it. I had a fecal done last week on a male ball python I got in 1979 at a pet store and it was positive for Strongyloides, but I think they had to look pretty carefully to come up with something like one egg. Anyway, I’m curious why you would be treating your entire collection. Granted, that nematode has a direct life cycle, but how many of your animals would have had common contact or points of contact?

-Joan

I've had several pet store balls in the last several years and in each case I failed to get a fecal done and after they did well through a quarantine and where treated for external parasites I put them into my general collection without treating for internal parasites.

I have been doing group breedings (1 male with 2 to 6 females) of my adults in 3 and 4 ft Neodesha cages so after several years of rearranging for breeding and also housing two females per cage outside of breeding I've lost track of who has been with whom. I only have 30 or so animals but it would cost me about $450 to do fecals on all of them and the meds to just treat them all are a little less than that (although that much Droncit really adds up). I did one dose each of Flagyl (the fecals I did have done didn't show anything that warrants it but just as a precaution while I'm at it), 6 doses of Panacure for the Strongyloides (I’m told very contagious), and two doses of Droncit for the tapeworms. I'm also spraying them with dilute Ivomectin in case it helps. My idea is then to retest key players and random periodically to be sure I have everything cleaned out.

I’ve learned my lesson and of course any new animals from now on will be tested or just treated, not sure which is best. I worry about a fecal not finding something (apparently the tape worms are particularly prone to be missed as they don't always pass eggs). The down side of just shotgunning is that I don’t plan to add animals very often and I’m assuming the shelf life of the meds isn’t long so I’d have to go to the vet anyway for enough of all the meds for one animal, maybe just pay my $15 for a fecal and trust it.

I'm also hoping to build a new rack to get down to one animal per cage with the possible exception of some breeding groups.

Thanks, that is a lovely snake and I found the rest of the posts about parasites very informative.