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small for a two year old?

salvadorian

salvadorian

creatures are people too!
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Zephyr is just now turning two years old and I'm wondering if she's small. I have a male blizzard (Guyer) corn snake that has escaped twice and is 1.5 years old. I can't judge her size off of him for this reason - he was obviously fed erratically when he had escaped. She was purchased from someone who "accidently" bred their two petstore corn snakes when they were still pretty small, and she was a little worm. I feed her a hopper a week and she has no issue eating it in about three minutes. She's a little bit thicker than my thumb before being fed and is pictured on an average sized kitchen sink.
 
Hey there! I have no idea about sizing, I just want to mention that I think you're horribly brave for letting the snake climb around with the open sink drain right underneith!
Cute girl though!
 
She looks in good shapre to me. Neither over nor underweight, head in proportion to her body, seems to have good muscle tone. Nothing to worry about there.

It's deceptive to compare Corns as they grow at such individual rates. Some are from bloodlines which are naturally small or large, or naturally slow/fast growing.
 
I think your snake looks healthy. My 2 year old has had so many digestion problems she's still on pinks. My snow, Zar, is six months younger is a giant in comparison. I give Zar a hopper every 5-7 days. He was last weighed at 107 grams, that was in May (I forgot to weigh in June).

Breeding is done by weight, it isn't wise to breed a female under 300 grams. What would you breed her to?
 
That's what I was referring to. That snake looks barely 100 grams, if even that much and it's going to be really hard to pack on twice as much *healthy* body weight.
 
Shiari said:
That's what I was referring to. That snake looks barely 100 grams, if even that much and it's going to be really hard to pack on twice as much *healthy* body weight.
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LOL OK I read that wrong then.

But I think the snake can reach 300 or so by next season.
 
Well, I would breed her to my Blizzard, Apollo. She (Zephyr) *should* carry charcoal (she had charcoal siblings, unfortunately I never saw both of her parents..). She's on a large hopper a week. I wish I had a scale..
 
Oh, also, I know that a nickel weighs exactly 5 grams. So I gathered twenty nickels and compared them to her being held in a paper towel (nickels in paper towel in one hand, snake in paper towel in the other hand) and I think that she weighs probably about 115 grams.
 
cecil - my candy cane corn from smr turned 2 on july 7th - he was fed on the munson plan a little on the lean side for the most part because petco's mice run a little smaller than i would like - at any rate he is about 42 inches long and weighs 315 grams
 
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