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Ball Python Weight
Interested in purchasing a ball python for sale online? Before making your purchase be sure to read our care sheet on ball python weight so you can learn proper care.
Typically an adult ball python is three to four feet in length. Females are usually a bit longer and heavier than the males. A mature healthy ball python for sale online will weigh about 5 pounds.
Reticulated pythons can weigh up to 350 pounds! Looking for something smaller? check out our corn snake for sale section!
Ball python obesity occurs at an alarming rate. The reptile community is not as aware of this as they should be. Reptile obestiy happens unintentionally, but brings real dangers and health problems to your snake.
Symptoms are scale wrinkling/folding, round shape, fat rolls near head, doesn’t feel firm, visible skin between scales and segmented bodily appearence. There are a few different causes of this. The most obvious being over feeding and lack of exercise. Powerfeeding and small enclosures may also be at fault.
To help your ball python for sale near me lose weight is by evaluationg its diet and seeing if that is the problem. If it is, gradually feed it less and less. If they aren’t getting enough exercise then handle them more often and encourage them to climb up and down the stairs.
Also widen the enclosure and give your pet more room to slither around. You can use a digital kitchen scale to weigh it in weekly to see if you have helped it lose weight.
Ball Python Care Information
Below you will find a wealth of ball python care information provided by our biologist. Take some time to explore some of the various ball python care sections of our website. Learn about proper ball python keeping including:
- ball python care guide
- ball python diet
- ball python temperature
- humidity for the ball python
- ball python habitat
- water and the ball python
- pet ball python lighting
- handling a ball python
- ball python substrate
- baby ball python size
- ball pythons for sale
- pet ball python size
- pet ball python lifespan
- ball python breeders
- ball python morphs
- ball python for sale
- pied ball python
- banana ball python
- banana ball python morphs
- spinner ball python
- lemonblast ball python
- piebald python morphs
- pied ball python
- blue eyed lucy ball python
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- blue eye leucistic ball pall python
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- banana pied ball python
- killer blast ball python
- albino pastel ball python
- albino black pastel ball python
- honeybee ball python
- yellow belly ball python
- pastel ball python
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