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10-08-10, 08:42 AM
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Ball Python growth rate?
My 1 year old bp is getting big (about 3 1/2 ft) and he is also male. Now from what I read is that is what males usally top out at. Can I expect an unsually large male or is this just how fast they grow? I usualy feed every 10 days
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10-08-10, 08:54 AM
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
here are some pics to help with size comparison
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10-08-10, 08:58 AM
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
apparently i accidentally put a pic of my blood up 
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10-08-10, 02:21 PM
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Super Genius
Join Date: Nov-2002
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
There is absolutely no way that the animal pictured is a one year old male.
Simply not possible.
The larget male that I have ever frown to a yearling (and I've had a few) was pushing 750g and about 2 feet.
From that picture and your description, that if it is in fact a male, that he is at leat 2-3 years old.
If it's a female (my inclination is to believe it is) than she could be 1.5-2 years old.
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10-08-10, 02:27 PM
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
iagree.gif His been breeding Balls for years and know what he talking about. Nice look snakes. I really like your blood.
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10-08-10, 02:39 PM
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
i got him last december he was 22in long which led me to believe he was born that year i dont have a scale to weigh but believe me when this snake has out grown two enclosures i figured noone would believe me but i will keep posting pics as he grows im trying to find a pic when i first got him
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10-08-10, 02:43 PM
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
this is him whe i got him last dec
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10-08-10, 02:45 PM
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
sorry for the bad pic but should give u a idea in its growth i thought it was odd so i decided to share
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10-08-10, 02:48 PM
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You can call me JR
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
that looks to me like a yearling maybe you just have the shaq of snakes hope he can dunk
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10-08-10, 08:14 PM
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Super Genius
Join Date: Nov-2002
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
Babies are 10" to 14" long at birth. Your animal, as I suspected (male or female) is at LEAST 2 years old. Three if it's a male I would imagine.
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"that looks to me like a yearling maybe you just have the shaq of snakes hope he can dunk "
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I am very curious what characteristics that animal has to make you believe it is a yearling...
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10-08-10, 08:18 PM
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You can call me JR
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
whoops lol i guess i looked at the images weird i didnt notice the snake wasa wrapped around his wrist
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. -John Lennon
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10-08-10, 10:19 PM
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
ok thanks just trying to get a question answered. I'm used to the local garter snakes been in pythons for a year now and I always try to get info. I do know he is male and can't be more than 2 yrs
Last edited by will5185; 10-08-10 at 10:30 PM..
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10-09-10, 08:21 AM
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Super Genius
Join Date: Nov-2002
Location: Southwestern Ontario
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Re: Ball Python growth rate?
For future reference, when you want to use a picture to show the size of the animal, put something in the picture that we all know the size of so we have something to reference; a dollar bill (though hundreds seem to be the favourite), a can of soup, etc..
Your pictures are completely useless for showing the size oc the animal.
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