Is this scale ok?

Originally Posted by Leighanne

Uhm, so why don't they get that big then?

I'm not sure if you may be asking a different question, but that is kind of like asking why humans don't all grow to nine feet tall, they just don't. Your genes determine the upper limits of you height and wieght, but your environment can stunt or enhance your growth to a certain extent, but everyone has a genetic 'top-off' that tells your body to stop getting taller after a certain point. Someone who has the genes to be seven feet tall may not get enough nutritients to actually get to be seven feet tall, wheras a person whose genes say they will be five feet tall can eat healthy all they want, they will not get any taller than five feet. If you see a red tail boa dwarf, their genes don't let them get any bigger than (guessing here) five feet, no matter how much you feed them. overfeeding them just makes them fat, it won't make them any longer. At least not substantially longer. Species have giants, but unless you bred all the six foot balls together, you would be unlikely to get animals that get bigger than around five feet.
That is just how species work, breeders enhance features like color and size by breeding the most coloful and biggest or smallest adults, but until someone breeds balls for their size alone, the species in general will probably stay at and average of four to five feet.
hope this helps.

Well after that post I have to laugh at myself. lol

Well, there is one person I know of who has been trying (without success) for the past few years to cross a ball python and a burmese python.
They've locked up but never produced eggs.
He is using a very large female ball python and a small (just barely breedable size) burmese.
Hopefully they will never have a clutch but now you know there are individuals trying to make monster size ball pythons.

I can't say I would exactly agree to that one. It just sounds bad.

Originally Posted by Leighanne

I can't say I would exactly agree to that one. It just sounds bad.

Yep, it just ain't right.

Originally Posted by Leighanne

Heres the link to it on Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/52-DIGITAL-POSTA...QQcmdZViewItem Lickity is a female and I read they will get 6 to 8 feet, so how many pounds is that because this has a 52 lb. capacity to it. What kind of scales do you guys use? Thanks guys!

I wouldnt buy that scale. I brought a scale similiar to this one from the same seller on ebay. It worked very well for about 1 month. All of a sudden it just stopped working, that why they sell them so cheap because they are very cheaply made. JMO

Thanks and hey I like your name. LOL

Originally Posted by THEREALMIKEMOORE

I wouldnt buy that scale. I brought a scale similiar to this one from the same seller on ebay. It worked very well for about 1 month. All of a sudden it just stopped working, that why they sell them so cheap because they are very cheaply made. JMO

Really?
I got mine from that seller for 99 cents and it works fine.

Originally Posted by SPJ

Really?
I got mine from that seller for 99 cents and it works fine.

Yes I am serious. I used it about 5 times. And didnt use it for like 2 weeks. Then when I about to start using it again it wouldnt work. I went to the store and brought brand new batteries and nothing happen. I email the company and they gave me a statement saying they try to do their best but they are only obligated to return/exchance any items they sell within a 7 day period. But that is just my experience with this company. But you had to admit these scales are cheap and made cheaply. You get what you paid for.