Baby Ball Pythons Growing Very Slow?

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I have a clutch of eggs that hatched in November of 2019. They were rather petite when they hatched, and some were a bit slow to establish feeding. They were eating mostly once a week on fuzzies and moved to larger mouse sizes as they grew at different rates. Most of them are the size of these two; the first pictures were them out of the egg and the pictures below are more recent. They now just look like regular sized hatchlings, but at 6 months old they’re small. I’m not sure if I’ve hit an oddball group of very slow growers, if they were just very little to begin with, or if I should increase frequency in feedings. I know all snakes can grow at different rates but it does seem a little odd. All of my other snakes have the same temps and humidity and are growing just fine.

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They may well be genetically a small clutch, diet plays it’s part and feeding frequency. I would definitely get yourself some scales for weighing them regularly so you can keep an eye on their progress with weight gains.

Lovely snakes though and best of luck.

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Diet, genetics, size of the eggs, skipped meals etc all play a big part in how the animal will develop, if you hatch an animal that is 40 grams and one that is 90 grams, 6 months later there will be a descrepency, just like there will be with an animal that take it’s first meal 1 day after it’s first shed and on that does 6 weeks after it’s first shed.

I am one that does not pay attention to weight I simply make sure that everything is fed an appropriately sized feeder once a week (everything is fed once a week regardless of age, size or status)

Now if an animal is properly fed and however does not grow at a proper rate or remain skinny there might be an underlaying cause.

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Thanks; I think I’ve got to replace my current scale as it seems to be sticking!

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Now that I’ve looked over older photos of the eggs and now that I’ve compared it to a few other egg photos, I do think they are on the petite side and most are more round instead of elongated. Their mama was far over 2k grams but I think 9 eggs may have been a bit squished in there. Thank you for the input!