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ways to tell your ball is getting fat..

You catch him doing laps in his bin.

You find the newspaper substrate opened to the health and diet section.

You find her checking the nutrition and calorie count of her rodents

You come home to find she has thrown out all her hides because they are too small.

Seriously though.. I have a male that never misses a meal since coming off the breeding season fast. I know they are naturally heavy bodied snakes. What are some signs that you need to cut back. And then when you do. Would you cut back the size of the feeders or the length between feedings or both?
Thanks.
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This is courage.. to bear unflinching what heaven sends. -unknown

1.0 Basset Hound (Capone)
1.1 cats (San Quinton and Gracie)

I'd like to know this as well. The Barkers mention the breeding abilities of over-weight versus under-weight females in their book (Pythons of the World, Vol 2) but they do not indicate, that I can remember, how you differentiate between the two.

I have a male Pastel that is a veritable stick and a female Cinnamon that is a sausage with teeth. What is the healthy range?
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.0 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

If you're worried, cut his meals down to a mouse. They have less fat than rats.
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)