How big are your 06s?

My current hobby seems to be weighing little corn snakes, and as I was willing my little 18g coral snow to just grow a bit more I wondered what the average weights of your 06s were.

Biggest male:
96g - Sebastian, opal male (hatched 1st July)

Biggest female:
84g - Mavis, anery female (hatched 29th June)

Smallest male:
54g - Peter, pewter male (hatched beginning of August)

Smallest females:
18g - Coral snow female (hatched 4th September)
24g - Belle, lavender female (hatched beginning of August)


Seb is obviously a month older than Peter, but it'll be interesting to see if Peter is nearly 100g in a month's time - I think not! And somehow I doubt wee Coral and Belle will match Mavis's 84g in another month or two. Which makes me wonder, is it somehow "better" from a growth point of view to have corns born earlier in the year? As even accounting for age differences, the growth of my earlier 06s seems to be much faster than the later in the year babies ...

I've got two August-born girls at 66 and 65g, one at 48 (she had a paper toewl regurge) and my last 06 is at 33 g. I don't know when that one was born, but I suspect it was around the same time.

2 06 females...
an okeetee from Kathy Love purchased in late June 06 is at 73g and an 06 Blizzard female purchased at the 10/06 Tinley Park show is at 48g.

my 'o6 male hatched july 9 is 63 grams

I have an '06 MBK that is 32grams, an '06 normal corn that is 34grams, and an '06 Florida king that is around 50grams.

If I bought my snake in mid September,,and she was about 12"-13",,when was she hatched,,ball park ??

Mine are pretty variable depending on how long they took to eat, how big they were when they hatched, and when they hatched. Bigger ones are in the 50 -60 gram range. I had a tiny twin hatch out last year, he had to eat pinky heads at first, he would regurge the whole pinkies. He lived... He's up to a whopping 24 grams now.
I am just glad he made it.

I'll play!
My biggest 06 is my ghost mot, Annie Oakley 70g
then my lookatee, Nellie Cashman, 54g
Butch the anery, 47g
Sundance, his sister, 35g

Sundance was slower to bump up prey size than her brother, although they both were exactly 6g when I got them

Interesting question.........&, as previously mentioned by e-mail, you stimulated my curiosity.

Original post by shed'n my skin
Mine are pretty variable depending on how long they took to eat, how big they were when they hatched, and when they hatched.

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I agree with the above statement & to prevent complete boredom with a long list of 2006 hatchling 'keeper' weights. I shall, simply, state the averages.

Number of Hatchlings weighed = 21

d.o.h. - July to Sept

Weights - 30g to 55g

This little experiment proves the point that d.o.h. does not, always, indicate that the hatchling will be overly mature by the year end.

For example - Pewter (born July 06) 30g & Coral Avalanche (born Sept 06) 45g

The overall size of the parentage may, also, play a role in the development................or, I may be just a little cautious with the food up grades!

:sidestep: no guesses :shrugs:

It's really impossible to tell, Droptines, unfortunately. As other figures on this thread show, size is really not a valid indicator of how old a snake is...

The overall size of the parentage may, also, play a role in the development

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I don't doubt that it does at all - why shouldn't it, when it does in other species? Obviously within any offspring of a particular pairing (again, any species) there will be variation, but I wonder if the "slow starters" from a clutch will eventually end up in the same weight range as the quick developers? Or does their lack of desire/ability to eat as much as their siblings do while young mean that they lose that window of rapid growth?

Every pet store/feeder mouse or rat I've ever bought has had less than adequate calcium levels, so I do wonder if maybe a reliance on commercial food means that supplementing prey items with calcium and other vitamins might be an advantage for the snake? If a snake has to eat two pinkies to get the same vitamins and minerals as it would from one really well bred pink, then I assume it's expending more valuable energy on digestion that could be diverted elsewhere?

Sorry if I'm rambling. I find details of nutrition and growth in animals to be a really interesting but little explored subject.

That's interesting, Toyah. I compared my feeder mice to bought ones, and mine are like monsters!

I thought I had some runts when I first started reading this thread but I guess mine are ok size the more replies I see here.
I've got a couple of 'live only' eaters that are on the smaller side, I have one in particular that sometimes refuses the live feeders I buy at the pet store and readily eats the ones from my mouse colony. (I'd do a taste test but I'm not a snake)
I really don't think there is anything set in stone of how big your snake 'should' be as an 06, there's just too many variables affecting their size. As long as they are willing eaters and healthy I'd say size doesn't matter that much, IMHO.

I think I'm the one with the runt 06ers. I have about a dozen of them and I bet not even one is over 30g's. I must be a bad mummy. :eek1:

Interesting that this thread came up since I'm wondering if Lucy is small for her age.

She hatched June 8th, 2006. As of this month, she's 8 months old, 14 grams and 17 inches long.

Small pinkies leave a huge lump in her. :shrugs: