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What gender grows larger???

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MikeMoldao

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Hey, I read in every website that females are bigger than males. But in the book "Corn snakes-The comprehensive's owner guide" by kathy and Bill Live it says:"Males grow longer and heavier than females. The biggest brutes top out at 6 feet (183 cm) and about 2 pounds (nearly 1kg) in weight."

Is this true??? And it also says that a corn snake lived up to more than 30 years. Can any one answer me? I'm confused, because suposedly this was a great book.
 
I do agree with almost anything that kathy love would have to say about corns (counting in her years of experience with them)..but the laws of nature can be greater then the words of an experienced snake owner. In this I mean that even though a majority of the time males might get bigger..there might be times where you will see the female bigger then the male...It just all depends on the snake and how it eats and grows..that's just my words of advice though..
 
Breeding females use more physical resources and are more likely to be smaller than males or non-breeding females.

But yes, Kathy has worked with Corns for years and will have an amazing amount of first-hand knowledge.

Also, yes, exceptionally, some Corns can and do live well past the accepted average of around 15 years. I have a 20 year old and Corns up to 30 years of age have been reliably recorded (although they're few and far between).

Kathy's book is one of the Corn "bibles", so don't worry about its accuracy.
 
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