Interresting growth statistic

Greetings,

My daughter and I, as keepers, try to keep both accurate and detailed records of our snakes. Yesterday we fed and measured our little darlings and I made an interesting note on the growth of our Okeetee. We use Serp's outstanding, and free, measuring program. Thanks Serp!

Here are the dates of measure:

11/29 measure 13.1 in.
01/07 measure 14.7 in. (in 5.5 weeks % of growth is 12.2%)
02/12 measure 18.6 in. (in 5.1 weeks % of growth is 26.5%)

Notice that the growth between 1/7 and 2/12 has doubled! The main difference between the dates is that I started feeding two pinkies every meal on 1/7. Doubling the food has literally more than doubled the rate of growth (in length anyway). Our Okee is still slender and quite active compared to our Anery (aka the Fat Man). I am interrested to see the data between now and the next measurement since we have just started our Okeetee on fuzzies. I just thought I'd share.

Does anyone else keep data on their snakes? If so have you made any interesting obsrvations in the data?


Cheers,
Jason

unlike you, i havent kept detailed measurements of my snkaes growth but i have noticed that the growth has been very inconsistant.. rocketing on at some points in her life then slowing down only to race on again later..
these changes in growth rates are always accompanied by a change in the snakes eating habbits... sometimes she just doesnt want to eat much at all and refuses her offerings and this results in slower growth.. then after a period her appetite picks up and growth surges ahead.
nothing scientific in this at all, only my observations from over a year with my beautiful female snow corn.

I have noticed that all my yearling corns grow 4inchs every 3 months (is ths very slow???)
But my Ball Python grew 13inchs in 3 months!!!!!!!!!!!! (she is not 31 inchs and was born in August 2003)

Alex

lol my eldest corn is 25" and was june 03hatchling feeding on 2fuzzies every 5-7days, my other girl is about 20"and was sept 03 and feeding on 1pink and 1fuzzy every 5days (she wont eat fuzzies on their own yet lol) my royal is 22"and oct/nov 03 and feedin on 2medium mice a week.

My male corn had a massive growth spurt and then stopped eatin so slowed down but hopefully we'll start gettin somewhere again now, he's nearly big enough for small mice! Royal nearly big enough for large mice too so happy me!

Rachel

I posted this on the kingsnake.com forum a while back, thought you might find it interesting:


Averaging my 4 snakes info...

At 6 months: 20 inches and 35 grams

At 12 months: 28 inches and 100 grams

At 18 months: 34 inches and 180 grams

At 24 months (only one snake used for this data): 36 inches and 230 grams

At 30 months (only one snake used for this data): 41 inches and 280 grams

I've only had mine since December, and I've been measuring her every month. When I got her, she was approximately 18", she is now 21", and a lot bigger around in the body as well. She's also had two sheds. I'll check her again in another 3 weeks or so.

Wow Neumann....that's really great you keep such accurate records. I don't keep records of growth, I just keep records of when he sheds, when I feed him and how much, and also when I clean the vivarium. Oh, and he gets vitamins too, I keep records of that.