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ok i am wondering about something ,
i know a guy who's breeding balls ...
and i dont see how this is possible at all but a buddy of mine has seen the animal in question and the feeding chart with date of hatch written on it ...
and i cant believe it even after being told by my buddy of what he seen ..

i know power feeding can greatly increase body size if done properly
but this method of accumulation is so far from belief i still cant beleieve its true ..


this guys has a pastel ball female that was hatched out on 7/1/07
and as of this date today Oct.23/2007 the current weight of this ball is over 900 grams .
so basically in 3 months it went from hatchling 30-50 grams at birth (guess)
to well over 900 grams ..


now is this possible ? that short amount of time with that much drastic accumulation of weight ..
please help me out on this cause i dont see how its possible to put on that much weight in that short amount of time ..

Shawn Skillings
TheVipersHouse Reptiles & Exotics
 
I think that somebody had his finger on the scale, lol...either that, or the DOB was misread. Either way, I'm calling :icon_bs:
 
see thats what im saying .
but my buddy (who still cant beleive it after seeing it in person just tonight himself )


said he was right there when the snake was weighed , he said the snake is so oblong its actually ugly looking , cause its so fat .
and my buddy has looked over the DOB and the feeding chart . (he said , the chart showed where that there was at least 8 days straight it ate 1 rat everyday) he was on the phone with me while looking at all of this ,
the female in question is from a male pastel first time breeding and my buddy has 1 of the siblings to the female ...
but with all this i still cant beleive its true its unheard of least from my years of knowledge ..
 
TheVipersHouse said:
..... he said , the chart showed where that there was at least 8 days straight it ate 1 rat everyday.......
Click to expand...

At the very least it's a good feeder :) Maybe it's just full of, let's just say what was once rat.

I too doubt a snake could grow that quickly but stranger things have happened, I don't know what they are but they have happened.
 
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