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Raksha
Hatchling

United Kingdom
105 Posts

Posted - 18/11/2012 :  01:38:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
hi guys i been and wighted all my snakes to day and am a little concerned, as you know i have my baby corn snake utum who is doing fine
the two yello anacondas who game me one hell of a shock as one of thems been missing in action for a week and i found it behind the roleplay games bookshelf, but my concern is the breeding pair of corn sankes i got off preloved now the snakes them selfs are 4 years old, around the four foot mark but i cant find a way to get an accurate measurement(any advcice on how to do that would be wounderfull)heres the wights
autum 7 months old 26grams
female adult 4 years old around 4ft in length 326 grams
male adult corn 4 years old and around 4ft agien 515 grams

what wight should she be at is what am questiong as she looks thin comepaired autum but then agien its only young so am kinda at a loss

pets list
1 Cat "Cheeky"
2 Yellow Anacondas "Shadow & Arrow"
1 Corn Snake "Autumn"
1 Tarantula "Legs"
1 Scorpion "Sub-Zero"
2 Guinea pigs "dog and Sephiroth"

Moppet
Fully Grown Corn

United Kingdom
3315 Posts

Posted - 18/11/2012 :  02:15:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Snakes all grow at different rates and in slightly different proportions (some are just narrower looking than others), there isn't really a weight that a certain length snake should be. It is more the shape of the snakes. Imagine a cross section of a snake. It should be loaf shaped, not triangle (too thin) or round (too fat).

I use this to measure length of my snakes, it is the least stressful method I have found whilst still being quite accurate

http://serpwidgets.com/main/measure

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Criminal Nails
Hatchling

Spain
275 Posts

Posted - 18/11/2012 :  11:22:25  Show Profile  Visit Criminal Nails's Homepage  Reply with Quote
That thing for measuring is great! I'm amazed at it being accurate!
What I did the first time I measured my corn was... to measure the skin she had shed. Voilą.

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Moppet
Fully Grown Corn

United Kingdom
3315 Posts

Posted - 18/11/2012 :  15:12:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The problem with measuring a shed skin is that they often stretch as they come off, so it is maybe not the most accurate method. Definitely the easiest though. I think people generally take 10% off the length of the skin to get a rough estimate of body length, but I may be wrong on that number.

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