I understand your reason for weighing your animals too. I don't weight mine either though and the reason is that there is just so much variation from one to the next. Also huge variation in weight depending on off feed while shedding, have they just soaked, are they gravid or breeding, many, many variables.

As for the hip bones, these are very slendar reptiles and the hip bones will alway protrude, no two ways about it. If they don't show then your animal will be very obese.

Instead, look at the thighs. They will be nicely filled out rather than thin. They have very muscular thighs and use them for making nice long leaps and for jumping from the ground to the branches above. I have observed this with my babies. It is absolutely amaising how far and how high they can leap!

Anyway, scroll down through some of the old posts and look for ones that have the image tag or on my posts ones that say in the title that they have picture as I don't use the Kingsnake photo hosting and look at some of our animals. You will see the scrawny think hip area with the little pointy hip bones. In fact, if you look at my Very Gravid Armatas post you can clearly see them in the second photo.

Hope this answers why we don't weigh. Not saying you shouldn't if you feel it helps you.

I just can't give you a good answer!
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