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Are my snakes fat?

VickyChaiTea

VickyChaiTea

Snake enthusiast
Just wondering if my snakes are a good weight/size. I know that every snake grows at a different rate, but if someone had followed the munson plan for a snake whole life and the snake was as old as mine, would they be the same weight?

I never knew the weights of my snakes until just now, so I was never able to follow the munson feeding plan. Young ones got fed pinkies every 5-7 days, then double pinks, then fuzzies, then hoppers, then mice. All every 7 days. Apparently, I was feeding Sasha/Charlie double pinks for too long, which makes me think Sasha might be small for her age. Here are the stats.

Charlie (amel)- Bought January 2009 as a hatchling.
382 grams, was being fed 20-30 gram mouse every 7 days

Sasha (normal)- Found October 2008 as a hatchling.
306 grams, was being fed 20-30 gram mouse every 7 days

Adrian (anery)- Bought October 2009 as a hatchling.
59 grams, was being fed 7-9 gram fuzzy/hopper every 7 days

Now that I know everyone's weights, Sasha/Charlie will be getting fed every 12 days and Adrian will get fed something a little larger every 7 days. I just wanted to know if everyone was a good weight for their size or not. Thanks in advance!
 
You can't really judge by their stats, especially without their lengths, if they are overweight. Pictures would be better, but even then it can be hard to say unless they were quite obviously chubby or skinny. If you could judge, you might say that Charlie is too big because he's a year younger, but weighs a lot more. That just goes to show you absolutely can't judge! But for comparison's sake, my '08 is 297 g and he was fed not quite on the Munson plan. He was given an appropriately-sized mouse once a week his whole life (after the breeder). I was pretty conservative about moving him up a size too.
 
Hmmm... well, here are the most recent photos of them.

Charlie:
Snakies4.jpg


Sasha:
Snakies6.jpg


Adrian:
Snakies11.jpg
 
They're all fat! LOL Other than the food bumps, no they don't appear fat from those pictures. And that is one gorgeous normal! :)
 
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