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Fiesty little girl and not growing as fast as I'd expect for this species. She weighed in at 255 gms. today. Probably about 34 inches.

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actually in my experience that sounds about right on track......

Good to know, thanks.
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I've found the young ones we have here to be slow growers as well. Seems normal to me & she looks great.

not sure what you guys have in mind for "fast growing" but 34' at 12 months that is pretty darned fast... i mean what is that, roughly 3x their hatching length! not bad at all.....LOL!

My other yearling pits, (2 ginter nps, 1 ruthveni, 1 black pine and 1 mugitus) are all well over 46 inches and 600 - 700 grams now so maybe I'm spoiled. ...and no, I do not stuff them, just regular feedings of 10-20% meal weights.

btw, all have feeding data viewable on my website. (including graphs
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Haha.. Oh man, I wasn't thinking very clearly...I read "yearling" but in my head thought 2 years like the wee ones we have here. Our 2 year old linnies are just over 3'.

Not sure why my snakes grow so fast then...maybe it's the climate. ...seriously, I don't have a cold room to put 'em down in.
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More likely the fries & gravy you're pumping into them!

Actually I haven't cooled our little ones either but did let it drop naturally to around 65 down there last winter & they seemed to still spend most of their time on the cool end.