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20-Apr-08, 02:03 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: ipswich Age/Gender: 20  | | |
we are looking to get into scrubbys just start out with a few hatchies, just wondering what the growth rate is...im a bit wiery or having snakes that grow like 16ft long lol but my partner asures me they dont just go from hatchies to monsters that quickly..so any information would be great thanx. kim |
20-Apr-08, 02:11 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 35  | | | | Hi Kim,
Scrubbys are one of the fastest growing pythons in Oz. They can by quite snappy, give elapidare a PM he has a few Scrubbys and the most experinced with Scrubbys I know on this site.
Cheers Andy.
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20-Apr-08, 02:15 PM
|  | Willia6 fan Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Victoria Gender: | | | They grow very quickly.
Check this article out: http://www.smuggled.com/BriBar16.htm The following tables and graphs represent data collected over a 27-month period. Due to ill health at the time, the project was completed at this stage but I feel at this point most of the required material had been obtained. Growth was extremely rapid and naturally, the more rapid growth was attributed to the more food consumed. At twelve months of age, one of the snakes were just over 2.1 metres in length (7ft). At 2 years of age the largest was almost 3.7 metres (12 ft 2 inches) in length and at the completion of the official growth rates at 27 months the largest was in excess of 3.88 metres (12 ft 9 inches). The occasional measurement was taken after this period and at three years of age the largest was in excess of 4.4 metres (14 ft 6 inches).
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20-Apr-08, 02:17 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Melbourne Eastern Suburbs Gender: | | | | They say that when handling a full size scrubby always have someone else standing nearby armed with a knife , just in case . Does sound exciting . |
20-Apr-08, 02:37 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: Queensland Age/Gender: 19 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jungletrans  They say that when handling a full size scrubby always have someone else standing nearby armed with a knife , just in case . Does sound exciting . | Armed with a knife?
Uh... well... armed with alcohol would be better... |
20-Apr-08, 07:07 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-08 Location: ipswich Age/Gender: 20 | | | | hahah yes well my partner is good friends with troy and denver k...they also have a couple huge scrubbys and they have the largest collections of snake i know of. so we have no shortage of helpers and people with experience. just thought id see if there are any owners of scrub pythons and any tips on husbandry..and their personalities and any pics of the averies or enclosures you keep them in would be good. |
20-Apr-08, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by deadflesh Armed with a knife?
Uh... well... armed with alcohol would be better... | Agreed, if you really need a knife you've gotta ask yourself whether you can handle a big python... | |
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