Update on my Burmese

[dinosaurdammit]

Originally Posted by lemon

With wild snakes some growth between the age of 10-20 could be possble but i know with retics in captiity ive never known one to grow past 13 years of age.

there is a guy locally that has had his retic for 23 years and he says she still is growing, and that reptiles have indeterminate growth to an extent. That they never really stop growing but it isnt anything like when they are growing into adult hood.

[lemon]

Originally Posted by dinosaurdammit

there is a guy locally that has had his retic for 23 years and he says she still is growing, and that reptiles have indeterminate growth to an extent. That they never really stop growing but it isnt anything like when they are growing into adult hood.

I know a fellow keeper that has had over 70 adult retics and over 200 adult pythons. Of the 15 he has now only a couple are still growing the rest havent grown an inch for years and years. His biggest at nearly 22 foot hasnt grown for the last 4 years, another 20ft+ snake hasnt grown since 2001. They simply do not keep on growing and growing. Though if not fed heavily it will take them longer to reach their max pontential and so could be of an older age and still growing but this isnt the same as growing all their lives. Lets face it if they grew all their lives they would be 25-30 foot snakes in existence but as we all know there hasnt been a genuine snake over 24foot ever proven.

Sadly only about 5% of mainland female retics will genuinely break the 20ft mark.