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Following the Munson Plan w/o a scale?

Once they weigh 5 lbs, can't you just stand on a bathroom scale and weigh them? My BR scale is digital and weighs by the half lb.
 
Whoa! You've got to be kidding! A 5 pound corn snake? That corn snake would have to weigh 2,267.96185 grams. I don't think they can get that heavy.... except for - perhaps - the "obese" one that is now on a strict diet and is exercising more. LOL.

As far as I know (cause I haven't bred my corns yet), a corn should weigh at least 300 grams before being bred... So a 2,000 gram corn would be a MONSTER.


LOL!
Fred
 
LOL! That would be quite a beast of a corn, but I assumed he was referring to other types of snakes that may be weighed on his scale. Look at some of guru's and trixter's snakes. No way could you put those beasts on a little kitchen scale. ;)
 
Well I'm going to be the odd one out, but I don't think a scale is that important. I have one, and only use it for measuring females during breeding season. And even then, I don't use it that much. I use it more as a "I'm pretty sure she's gaining weight back, I'll double check with my scale" sort of thing.

For feeding, there's really no need for one to be honest. Just feed your snake something that is 1.5x's wider than the largest part of its body. Feed that size until you can no longer see a lump and move up in prey size. Keep doing this and then stop once you hit jumbo mice. Even if I can't see a lump, jumbo mice are as big of an item as the get. This is so much easier than messing around with weights and works great. For feeding frequency and what not, by all means turn to the Munson Plan.

But obsessing over prey weights vs. your snakes' weight is pretty pointless IMO.

Now that being said, owning a scale isn't a bad thing and I'm glad I have mine. But for just feeding, its not needed.
 
blueapplepaste said:
But obsessing over prey weights vs. your snakes' weight is pretty pointless IMO.
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But what if it's not you that is obsessing?

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Really though, I just like to know. At this point my snake just eats big mice and grows. And you're right Matthew, I could tell when she was getting too round just by sight.
 
My scale weighs up to 5kg (11 pounds). Almost caught mine taking a peek too Alan
 

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alan said:
Really though, I just like to know. At this point my snake just eats big mice and grows. And you're right Matthew, I could tell when she was getting too round just by sight.
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Great pic!! But yeah, it can be handy. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying they're pointless, just saying that for worrying about prey size, they're not really necessary.
 
I got a nice USB scale from Radio Shack for about $8. measures down to 1 gram. Sure it has to be plugged into a computer, but it works and was cheap.
 
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