How much time to get to 300gr (please answer)?

[breedingcolors]

How much time in average does it take you to get your snakes to 300gr? I know some take much more or much less time than others but if you make an average. Dean you can't participate LOL.

 

[cornmorphs]

most around 2 years i guess...
i have some big ish 14/15 month olds, but they are nothing compared to some of the ones you guys have here.

 

[gwb8568]

if mr. munson feeds them.............probably early 05's or late 04's. :grin01:

 

[Roy Munson]

Dean you can't participate LOL.

I'm always on the outside looking in.

Ok, I won't participate in the poll. But I'd like to state that I wish I could refine things to the point where they hit 300g at about 21 months, giving me the rest of the year to tweak weight/muscle-tone before first brumation at about 27 or 28 months. This is for females, of course. I'd like males to hit 175-200g by month 16, in time for their first brumation (if they're being bred). In the end, I don't want monster corns. I'd like to keep my males and females at 400-500g, if they'll comply. I only have two in that range now-- but one's an (early) '05...

 

[gwb8568]

I'd like to keep my males and females at 400-500g, if they'll comply. I only have two in that range now-- but one's an (early) '05...

:eek1: :eek1: :eek1: for us that either don't know or can't remember.....who are you speaking of. :shrugs:

 

[Roy Munson]

:eek1: :eek1: :eek1: for us that either don't know or can't remember.....who are you speaking of. :shrugs:

My early '05 pet-store anery female. Her name's Poison. She's at about 440g. She's been dieting for a long time now, so she has firmed up. Joejr14 has held her recently, so he can back me up when I say she's not too squishy.

 

[gwb8568]

My early '05 pet-store anery female. Her name's Poison. She's at about 440g. She's been dieting for a long time now, so she has firmed up. Joejr14 has held her recently, so he can back me up when I say she's not too squishy.

you sure it's not a 95? an 05 dieting to reach 440g...... :shrugs: wtf. this isn't some kind of boxing match and trying to reach the weight limit..........you would think that at this weight it would have to eat like a possum pinky every 2 weeks.
sorry to have gone :-offtopic , just freaking out over here.

 

[pcar]

I got a 3 year old Sunglow female recently that weighed in at 600 grams. not fat at all. 3 weeks later she laid 30 perfect slugs and still weighs in at about 550. I have her on a diet right now to get her down to 450 or so.

But for your question, just feeding the snake normally will usually result in 300 grrams in 3 years. feeding on an aggressive feeding pattern, you can get them up there in 2 years. I wouldn't suggest power feeding, but I know some do it and can get 1 year old snakes in that range.

 

[Drizzt80]

For the past 3 years, I have fed, from hatching, an appropriate sized meal every seven days. The f/t meal they receive do not leave a bulge more than enough to know they ate their meal . . . ie. nothing oversized. I have 3 '05's that are over 300 grams and 5 others that are 250+. :shrugs: AFIK, nothing 'special' in my feeding practices at all. I do have other '05's that haven't reached 150 grams as well . . . on the same feeding schedule. Overall, the majority of my snakes reach 260+ at anywhere from 14 months to 20 months.

D80

 

[PtDnsr]

It depends on when I got them as well. I feed my snakes weekly from hatchlings on up. I have some '05s that are just around 100g and others that are 200ish. On another note my biggest girls weighed in at 800g this past summer before she laid her clutch. She went down to 500g after. Now, at 600g I still want to put some weight on her because she's skinny still (we're talking concave stomach at points). She's getting much better and I'd like to see her at 650 before I brumate her.

~Katie

 

[gwb8568]

yall are freaks.............if i tried that, i would not have any snakes as they would either die from starvation of seeing the meal :eek1: or puke up the horse i just tried to feed them uke01: . good luck to yall............ :shrugs:

 

[Susan]

I must be in the minority as most of my snakes barely make 300 grms by their third year.

 

[Drizzt80]

yall are freaks.............if i tried that, i would not have any snakes as they would either die from starvation of seeing the meal :eek1: or puke up the horse i just tried to feed them uke01: . good luck to yall............ :shrugs:

Hmmm . . . interesting response considering:

here is her recent feeding schedule:
9/1 1 lg pinky
9/9 2 lg pinky
9/16 2 lg pinky
9/22 1 fuzzy
10/1 1 sm. fuzzy, 1 pinky

Not sure what your comments above really mean now . . . :shrugs: ??

D80

 

[wpglaeser]

184 g

I just weighed "Tia", our '05 Okeetee. This is the first time she's been weighed, because we didn't have a decent scale until we got our Quaker Parrot.

Anyway, at just over a year, and being fed once per week (now on weans/small adult mice), she's at 184 grams. She is really huge, though, compared to my milk snake and then our grey-banded king snake. The GBK looks like a worm compared to our corn! And the corn is not overweight at all...

 

[gwb8568]

Hmmm . . . interesting response considering:

Not sure what your comments above really mean now . . . :shrugs: ??

D80

1st off.............mr. man, there is no horse listed in that feeding schedule
2nd'ly..............my own thread was started right after this post on this thread.
so the timing did suck for me.............but believe me when i say "i did not have overfeeding relations with that woman".

 

[Drizzt80]

1st off.............mr. man, there is no horse listed in that feeding schedule

Nope, there isn't, but it's more aggressive than my feeding schedule which I assumed is one of the ones you were referring to since I have corns over 300 grams at 15 months of age. Am I wrong?

but believe me when i say "i did not have overfeeding relations with that woman".

Now that's funny right thar!

D80

 

[dionythicus]

I must be in the minority as most of my snakes barely make 300 grms by their third year.

I'm with you there. I have '04's that are not quite 200 grams and most of my '05's are barely hitting 80-100. Some are growing well, like my rootbeer and creamsicle. They seem to be growing like monsters. Everybody eats well though so I'm quite pleased.

No horses were injured in the making of this reply..... :sidestep:

 

[CARattler40]

Hmmm . . . interesting response considering...

Not sure what your comments above really mean now . . . :shrugs: ??

here is her recent feeding schedule:
9/1 1 lg pinky
9/9 2 lg pinky
9/16 2 lg pinky
9/22 1 fuzzy
10/1 1 sm. fuzzy, 1 pinky

but it's more aggressive than my feeding schedule

In response to the bolded text: They don't mean anything less than they did before. Since when are 8, 7, 6, and 9-day intervals between feedings an aggressive schedule for a hatchling snake on pinkies/fuzzies? You may say it's aggressive because it's more frequent than your schedule, but I know I don't consider it to be aggressive at all, and admit (because apparently it's a horrible thing) to feeding every 4-5 days at that size.

And just to add to the thread, my Emoryi is an August '05, eating adult mice (or double hoppers if adults aren't available) every 14 days. He's currently at about 260 grams.

 

[CornCrazy]

I also have a few large yearlings. I feed them every 7-10 days. On the other hand, I have some that are small, too. I think a lot of it depends on genetics.

 

[breedingcolors]

Thanks guys for all the answers. I am glad to see I am not the only one who's snakes take 30-36 months to get to 300gr. I was accused in another forum of underfeeding my snakes because at 14-18 months, I had some 150gr snakes. This guy said that a snake normaly fed would be more at 300gr. I feed mine every 7 days, appropriate prey. Since he is a moron and I know he's not worth the time to answer him, I wanted to verify if I was the only one in my case.