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Posted - 26/11/2010 : 14:40:28
I've just acquired a couple of cornsnakes, and I think one of them may be obsese...as I have never met a fat snake before I just want to see if anyone else has advice on whether I'm right...it takes alot of effort to make a snake obese!
This snake has poor coiling ability and a very squishy (the technical term!) ventral surface....like I say, I've never met an obese snake before so I am open to any other suggestions as to what it could be, it seems like a normal cornsnake in every other way. Also the previous owners told me that the 2nd snake, who feels like a fit and healthy cornsnake to me, does not eat quite as much as the squishy one.
They are both female, 5 years old, about 5 foot long....
Thanks in advance for any hints and tips :)
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| tehbunneh |
Posted - 26/11/2010 : 23:06:52
Ahh, thank you very much! Gosh, I feel naughty hi-jacking poor Grouch's thread! I do hope he gets back to us soon on his issue so you guys can be so helpful with him ^^ |
| mikerichards |
Posted - 26/11/2010 : 23:02:14
88g at over 2ft isnt bad at all, i wouldnt worry too much. |
| tehbunneh |
Posted - 26/11/2010 : 22:56:13
Oh really? It may be because he is an anery, and I worry about things like weight in my pets that I think that it what it is X3 If I gently push the scales together, the whiteness does go away on his scales. He's not massively overweight, my boy, but he does seem a little on the chunky side. Might just be me worrying TOO much over him, rather then just letting him be. |
| Sta~ple |
Posted - 26/11/2010 : 19:17:32
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Originally posted by tehbunneh
If you have some electronic scales and some pictures, that may be useful to those of us that have an idea of what a fatty snake looks like and weighs in at XD My Rip was 88g and only just over 2ft long, which doesn't seem that bad, but I could see the white flesh between his scales a little, so have downgraded his food intake.
I think the white flesh rule is generally used for adults. I have never seen or heard of a fat young snake! |
| mikerichards |
Posted - 26/11/2010 : 17:13:37
weight and length are key, measure as best you can, and weigh the snake, then we can go from there. |
| tehbunneh |
Posted - 26/11/2010 : 15:28:35
There is a thread somewhere that has a very good diagram for working out whether your snake is obese. Basically, the best way for them to look is like a loaf of bread in cross-section, if you can imagine what your snake looks like with a cross-section cut. Anything that looks like a round or slightly squashed sausage is obese, and if they look like a toblerone, that's underweight. I have four snakes, one of which came to me close to toblerone shape, though he has kinks, so I'm wondering if that has something to do with it, then I have two perfect big loaves of bread snakes, and one that is a slightly rounded loaf of bread, close to a sausage; he has since been down-graded to one mouse per week, rather then two. It doesn't take much to build them up too much, so just be careful with what you feed, how many times you feed and how many at one single time you feed. Rats are said to be fattier then mice, but two mice of the same size would be fattier then one slightly larger rat - this is also in a thread somewhere, and is quite a good read.
If you have some electronic scales and some pictures, that may be useful to those of us that have an idea of what a fatty snake looks like and weighs in at XD My Rip was 88g and only just over 2ft long, which doesn't seem that bad, but I could see the white flesh between his scales a little, so have downgraded his food intake. |
| Sta~ple |
Posted - 26/11/2010 : 14:49:09
It doesn't take any effort to make a snake obese since they are pigs!
Any idea on weight? Anything about 1kg is obese I would say unless it was like 6ft+ |
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