Anyone with a good snake-measuring program care to help?

[laanxx99]

This is my ball python SLIDER (my class got to name it!). Can anyone with a good measuring program tell me what his length is? Thanks for any help you can give. The snake was donated to me by a local pet store. it is a regular ball python, sex unknown, and is a sporadic eater. It was on a weekly adult mouse diet until 3 weeks ago when it refused its meal. Hasn't eaten since then. Supposedly the snake was born in april of 2006.

ps. The mousepad in the picture is exactly 9 inches across.

 

[Cflaguy]

April 2006?

If that is true I wouldn't be surprised if he/she missed a few meals.
I didn't know ther were programs for measuring. We used to measure a shed and deduct 3-6 inches depending on how the stretch went during the shed.
Or take a piece of string and go head to tail, measure the string.

 

[Nanci]

I get 26.052 inches. I don't have screen capture capability.

Nanci

 

[Nanci]

http://www.serpwidgets.com/Apps/apps.html

Serp Widgets Snake Measurer

Nanci

 

[jazzgeek]

The Serpwidgets snake measuring program can be downloaded at this link.

regards,
jazz

 

[jazzgeek]

Nanci wins. :grin01:

 

[Nanci]

Sorry this sucks...Here is my tracing:

 

[Nanci]

And the measurement:

 

[Cflaguy]

That is flippin cool!

Here Nanci, measure Mandarin please!

 

[Derek54]

we need a scale though... so if you put a ruler in there, and try and take the picture from as straight above as possible, and I'll measure it

 

[jazzgeek]

Ooooh, measure mine, too. While you're at it, her tub needs cleaning.

And since you're up, could you get me a coffee? Cream, no sugar. Thanks.



regards,
jazz

 

[Derek54]

...once again you need a ruler, and a picture that is as vertical as possible

 

[Cflaguy]

That is an old picture Derek...

the best I can do is to tell ya the inside of that shoebox corner to corner is 13 inches. If it can't be done thanx anyway. Cool stuff though.

 

[Derek54]

This wont be a very accurate measurement(because of the picture) but it is 3 feet 5 inches

 

[Cflaguy]

Thanx Derek...

that is just about right on. He is a 30" tank and curls around the corner about 8 or so.

 

[BeckyG]

This is my ball python SLIDER (my class got to name it!). .

Wow! That is cool. I have a ball python named Slider as well. I adopted mine when he was 2 years old, and the name came with him. That is him in my avatar, and here he is as well:

I took that picture a day or two after I got him. He was quite skinny then, but he has grown considerably now that he gets fed regularly. Sheesh, until I looked at this picture again, I'd forgotten how much his backbone was sticking out.

 

[cassandra]

Here's my humble submission for a good example of a snake measuring picture:

Top down, square onto the snake and "known width thing" (that's a 6.5" quilting square ruler). Cat hair and carpet cooties optional.

The straighter you can capture the snake, the better. Or in the case of hatchling corn snakes, just make sure you capture the snake before he speed slithers out of the frame. =D

 

[Hypancistrus]

Wicked cool link!

Thanks for posting it Nanci! I am going to have to get a good pic of Hokie next to a ruler and try it.

His last shed was 44 cm, but it tore when I was getting it off the rock he cleverly wound around during the act. So I am assuming he is about 14" long or so, maybe a bit bigger. But now I can find out for sure... :dancer:

 

[Jay@PJCReptiles]

:-offtopic
Nanci,
When you have what you want to capture on your screen press Ctrl+Alt+SysRq and then bring up your paint program then hit the Edit button on top left of the screen then hit paste. It should put the "screen shot" there then you can save it anywhere you want for future use. I will post a screen shot of this thread.
Jay & PJ

 

[Nanci]

So Ctrl+Alt+SysRq captures the screen, then I can paste it in any Piant program?

Very cool, didn't know about SysRq.

Thanks a lot!

Nanci