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#1797202
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Full grown 
Does anyone have pictures of a full grown western? here’s my little girl she’s just about 2’. They usually get thicker though.
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07/15/08 11:30pm
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JackAsp
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Message To: Mdate In reference to Message Id: 1797202
Full grown
My girl is longer, but still similar in thickness to yours. I’m still waiting for that trademark adult girth to kick in. She’d probably have stretched out wider if I’d fed her larger prey items, but she was raised on 3 hoppers per meal instead of one thicker item. Snakes that eat multiple smaller mice often get thick anyway, even without getting gravid, but they often get very long and skinny first and take years to bulk out. Even if they’re hognoses, apparently. At 31 inches, I think she’s probably about as long as she’s going to get. At 22 months, she’s still young enough for another growth spurt, but I’d think if it was gonna happen it already would be, and at about 600 grams her appetite actually went down and seems to have stayed that way.
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07/19/08 03:55am
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Message To: JackAsp In reference to Message Id: 1801592
Full grown
Yea mine is eating two hoppers a week, but probably could eat another one. I am just wondering if I should bump up to one larger meal.
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07/19/08 06:10am
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JackAsp
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Message To: Mdate In reference to Message Id: 1801650
Full grown
Depends how you buy them. If you’re getting them in bulk, then it depends on how many other snakes you have that eat larger mice. Your supposed to use the frozen ones within six months so the vitamins don’t start to deteriorate, and you don’t exactly tend to know how old they are when you buy them, so even if you only buty a pack of fifty, and even if your snake eats every five days... if you’re only using one mouse a meal then most of them are going to get a bit old. Many will have been in your freezer over a year before they actually get used.
On the other hand, if you do have enough medium-sized snakes to assure larger-mouse turnover, or if you’re just buying your mice retail as needed, or if you’re raising your own, then bigger ones have a better meat-to-fur ratio.
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07/19/08 07:18am
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