Recent content by Trogdor80

Pythons and Boas like a ball usually live 30-40 years and can live up to 50. That is nearly a lifetime commitment if you are buying a young snake. Colubrids like corn/milk/rat snakes generally live less than 20.

Around 16" is kinda the dividing line between still growing rapidly and mostly grown.

Mine's Mom was huge(like 26") athough mine is kinda average(maybe 20") mine's dad was kinda average(maybe 20") mine had a good long bout of relocation stress when I got it and didn't eat that well for a while after I got it before it finaly decided it liked its new home and started eating good...

If ts your very first snake EVAR you might consder a corn/milk/rat/king snake of some kind instead of a python of somekind. If you loose interest its alot easier to put up with an animal you don't like for 10-15 years than it is for 35-40 years.

I briefly owned a 25ish foot(about 2/3 of a 40 foot shipping container) big retic that I was rescuing from someone who was ready to abandon it till I could find it a permenant home. Shes still alive and 27+ feet long last I checked with the breeder that took her for a permenant home. I...

boa is more comperable to say a carpet than a ball size wise.

I'm glad you had good luck wth yours and F/T, Mine refused to eat anythng but live ever. Even 6 months of starving it wouldn't eat a f/t when offered and I just had to take to feeding it live. The risks of feeding one live prey are over exagerated, but you really should feed one f/t if they...

Butters have 5.2% fat compared to 6.0% for crickets. Either you are mistaking butters for wax worms or you are assuming butters are fatty because it has "butter" in the name. http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtreme.com/Nutrition.html

My dragon's mom was like 26". I don't think mine will get that big. Yes, mom had GG.

Adult mice are entirely too big to safely feed any beardy. Severe impaction risk. Adult beardies are big enough to eat a pinky mouse reasonable safely (close to the space between eyes rule) although its not a good staple, too high of fat and can cause fatty liver disease.

If your dragon is big enough that a pinky is close to the space between eyes rule it shouldn't be an impaction problem. Its not a good staple because of fatty liver, but a pinky is like eye space size for an adult.

Some snakes just won't eat F/T and only eat live.

my big retic was like 24 ish foot (about 2/3 of a 40 ft shipping container)

I've had a big retic before. Retics are rather skinny compared to most other pythons, so a 10 ft dwarf retic is a lot lighter than a 10 foot blood. A 15 ft dwarf retic is a lot lighter than a 15 foot Burmese. 100% dwarfs (regular non morph) only get like 10 ft for females and maybe 6-7 for a...

well, python is kind of vague. a ball is less than 5 feet long a non dwarf retic can be 30+ feet long.