How big can he get?

[cristine]

My Albino Burmese Python has no trouble eating. He just shead and is 6 feet long. What is the biggest he can get ?

[YoungBuck]

I've seen Burms get anywhere from 10 feet to 16 feet myslef. I know that there is bigger out there though ;)

Mike

[jparker1167]

he could get really big, im picking up a normal male thats 15' I have a normal female that about 10' and a albino green female thats about 13' so be ready incase he gets huge, post some pics if ya can good luck with him

[bigbear]

i saw one that was close to 17

[rrrrr]

Males tend not to get too big. If it really is a male, he'll likely get anywhere from 8 to 12 feet. Occasionally, even a male will get up around 16' though, so I wouldn't get a burm if that kind of size is something you cant deal with.

[cristine]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b293/clotti/000_0249.jpg :cool:

[pollywog]

My female is close to 10 feet now at 1 1/2 years old, and still growing. My male is a year and 7 feet, but he has started to slow down.

[Reticsrule]

im not flaming at you or anything but "how big can he get?" is not a question you should be asking when he is already 6 feet long. he "can" get up to 16' but chances are he will stay between 10-13'. i just hope you are prepared for such a large snake in the long run.

[JimmyDavid]

Looks amazing.
Burms have no problem growing. A female i used to have was 21 feet at 5 years old. Males get shorter on average...

[cristine]

I know he will get bigger, the question I have is: are female burmese always bigger? :D

[pxtyson]

im not flaming at you or anything but "how big can he get?" is not a question you should be asking when he is already 6 feet long. he "can" get up to 16' but chances are he will stay between 10-13'. i just hope you are prepared for such a large snake in the long run.




you are one to talk every other post i have read from you is you being shot down by everyone because you want huge snakes and your are still an ankle biter

[mcfreshdeli]

i knew one that was 19ft and 22yrs old

[cristine]

I made a choice to have a huge snake after making sure that I had the capacity to take care of my Burmese correctly and not just on a whim. This site as far as I thought was for questions and information in taking pride in peoples snakes and such. I give all my pets the best of everything and I allways try to learn about ways to make their live better.

[cristine]

you are one to talk every other post i have read from you is you being shot down by everyone because you want huge snakes and your are still an ankle biterHEY, GUESS WHAT? I ALREADY HAVE A BURMESE PYTON!

[Reticsrule]

pxtyson: im trying to find out how big each of the snakes that i would like to keep is going to get so that when i do eventually get it i will be prepared. cristine on the other hand already has this burm and its six feet long. i just felt that she shouldnt be asking this question after she got the snake. i was just making sure she knew how large her burm may get.

[djcoreyd]

I am happy to see that other people have such an interest in the larger snake species. Mostly what you heard is right they max out between 21-22 ft. The longest recorded was 26-27 feet in some zoo long ago. If you look hard enough on the internet you will find a picture of one eating a deer.(Clearly deer was hand feed to it) My Female is actually smaller than my male of the same age. She is 10ft and he is 11.5ft, but she has more girth. I am going to send pic's, and some more info I hope you enjoy! Most people frown on us Berm keeper's, for they think that we don't know how to take care of them or something........I love my babies and I am sure you do too....

[Boakid]

People are so easily confused...no one was talking about you when thye said ankle biter, they were talking about my fellow fourteen year old.

[Reticsrule]

fellow 14 year old lol, nice :p

[Corran]

With snakes the females of most breeds are almost always bigger. Controlled feeding determines weather or not your snake will be huge, average or small for its type. I deal with reptiles that have been abused because my friend runs a rescue, and just last week she got in a 2 year old boa that was only being fed every 6 weeks. He was just under 4 ft long and barely 1 kg. Or you get those sick people who powerfeed their snakes and the snake dies at 5 years but reach full growth size or bigger in less than a year. So it really depends, to a certain degree you can control a snakes growth with feeding but being a berm hes still gonna be one of the bigger boyz in the house =D

[rrrrr]

With snakes the females of most breeds are almost always bigger.

This is true for most large boids, but is not true for snakes in general. Generally, males are larger in large species, females are larger in smaller species, but even that depends heavily on breeding behavior. There's some good research on this if you google sexual size dimorphism in snakes.

[jjpython]

my male is 10 feet and a year and 3 months old and hes still growing, be sure you can properly take car of him when he get big we dont need another person making the hobby look bad

[boidboi]

With snakes the females of most breeds are almost always bigger. Controlled feeding determines weather or not your snake will be huge, average or small for its type. I deal with reptiles that have been abused because my friend runs a rescue, and just last week she got in a 2 year old boa that was only being fed every 6 weeks. He was just under 4 ft long and barely 1 kg. Or you get those sick people who powerfeed their snakes and the snake dies at 5 years but reach full growth size or bigger in less than a year. So it really depends, to a certain degree you can control a snakes growth with feeding but being a berm hes still gonna be one of the bigger boyz in the house =D


this is kinda off topic but goes with the snake abuse

i just got a granite corn that was keep in a 15 gallon tank until it was 4 years and its was power fed with out heat just to get him to breeding size
its pretty disgusting what some people will do just to make money off animals

happy to say he is in a 72 gallon bow front now and doing well

p.s. my friend also works with people that run a reptile resuce

[Corran]

yeah its really sad what some people will do. Ive been socializing a BP that she got in quite a few months ago, hes 10 years old and has scars on his head and neck from cigarett burns as well as numerous scars on the underside. If anything moves too fast withing like a 10 ft radius of him he jerks his head back, and after all that abuse he barely hisses when i take him out of his enclosure.

[Iggy&Roxi]

Corran,
Cigarette Burns, that's trully awful. I really don't get some of the people out there. Way to make up for other people's stupidity :)

[cristine]

:zi: I fell in love with him the second I saw him. He is handsome as well as healthy.

[burmese maniac]

This may give you an Idea of ther size. 17 and 14 feet after 4 years!!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/scrubbymaniac/bigburmese.jpg