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RE: California Kingsnake measures, is ok?

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Posted by: zach_whitman at Sat May 2 13:36:46 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by zach_whitman ]  
   

Reptiles absolutely can get obese. But not the same way that mammals do. Reptiles store discrete lumps of fat in the ceolomic cavity. Mammals throw fat everywhere in the body where it effects all of your organs, blood vessels ect.

A reptile will naturally want to put on fat at some times of the year and burn that fat at other times of the year. If you provide your snake with a wide range of temperatures it will control its own body weight in a healthy way (bigger at some times of year and smaller at others). If you don't have good temps and you overfeed you will get a truly fat unhealthy animal.

   

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