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Hi all

Just a quick question.

Does male or female milks get larger?
I would think male, but often you will feed the female more to get her ready for egg laying and so on.
But potentially i think, with the same amount of food, the males will get larger.

Thanks

Jonas

In my experience there's no appreciable difference in captive bred size between male and female milk snakes. Some of this may be due to gentics and the breeding of morphs. From what I've seen, a male Eastern, Pueblan, Honduran, Nelson's, etc. isn't particularly likely to be much bigger of smaller than its female counterpart.

Tim

Third Eye

I think in nature snakes are much more long-lived. The fact is most of the big milks found in nature are male. Considering males travel further than females and have a higher mortality I dont think this data can be overlooked.