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When do you notice growth spurts?

lilmike227

lilmike227

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Just a random question I wanted to ask about your experience with corn snakes. I was wondering when you notice the most growth spurt in your snakes. Now I have heard that once snakes start fuzzies they grow faster but between being a yearling and full size three year old when do you notice there growth picking up the most? I know snakes grow at their own pace I was just curious about an average. And one more question, do slow growing snakes mean a small snake? For example if you have a snake that grows slow do you normally see them max out at 3ft and about 300g or have you seen slow growers end up and 5ft+ and 500g+? These are just random questions for my random corn snake research thanks. :wavey:
 
Well I've only had snakes for about a year, so I don't have much experience behind me. But because I can't resist posting....

The corn that I will draw off of is Rose Red. Why? She's the only one that is more than 30 grams and is a year old. She weighs 168 grams and is obviously not done growing yet. But I have noticed the fasted growth spirt in this particular snake (although subject to change due to her still growing and being bumped up to larger food items in the future) is when she hit 100ish grams. At this point I was feeding her 2 fuzzies (I had too many and little miss Pinhead sure wasn't able to eat fuzzies yet...) In fact I had so many fuzzies that I ended up bascially skipping the Hopper phase (she only got one or two). <<< Lesson there, plan ahead. So she was on 2 large fuzzies for the beginning, had 1 or 2 hoppers, and is now on 1 weaning. So in about 3 months, Rose Red gained 56 grams (5/13/13-8/07/13).

Hope you can get an answer from that.
 
I think they grow pretty steadily from fuzzys to adults. They might do a slight growth spurt every time you bump them up a size. And no slow growing snakes aren't necessarily smaller snakes. I have a slow grower as a baby that is just as big as other snakes his age that grew way faster than him. It just means they grew faster.
 
Henry is still on fuzzies but I did notice a growth spurt when he went from pinkies to fuzzies. His sheds seem to have gotten closer together and he just seems bigger every time I have him out.

He is on the small side for his age. He's a year old and only 40g. I think I kep him on pinkies too long because I was worried about regurges. But he seems to be catching up now that he is on a more appropriate prey size.
 
I saw a definite growth spurt with two of my snakes when they started getting small adult mice.
 
lilmike227 said:
What do you think causes the growth spurts? More protein, fat, or calcium?
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I think it is all three, including the fact that the next step up is a larger meal.

I bought Scarlett at 13 months old, she was 25g in late Dec '12. I fed her pinkies weekly until 4/20/13 and she was still at 25g. I bumped her up to small fuzzies every 5 days and she rocketed off. As of 8/13/13 she is 99g.

I got Gus on 6/15/13, he is supposedly 1.5 years (which makes him the same age as Scarlett) and while at that date Scarlett was 60g and on 1 fuzzie/5 days Gus was 25g and the girl I bought him from was still feeding him 1 small pinky/week. Poor baby, he was so hungry, I started him on two pinkies/5 days and he gobbled them up. Now, less than two months later, he is on one small fuzzie/5 days and is 49g, double his original weight, and Scarlett, 7 months later is 4x her original weight. I keep immaculate records on each, with what they eat and when, their pre-meal weights and when they shed and how it came out.

Both have perfectly clean sheds and are happy and healthy and not fat at all, I am just feeling sorry for the tree hide that Scarlett likes to lay on top of. It is starting to wilt a bit under her weight, but whatever makes her happy!
 
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