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07-Jan-07, 11:25 AM
|  | Seller | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Brisvagas | | |  What A Surprise
Well our female Atherton shed this morning. I was telling everyone on here like a week ago how she was around 7 - 8ft. Well we measured the shed this morning for the first time since we got her.  she is a staggering 9 1/2ft lol. The male is even bigger so I'll have to wait for him to shed to get a size on him. Is it normal for a 5yr old Atherton to be this big, her width is around the same size as a the top of my arm (which isn't thin by the way lol).
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07-Jan-07, 11:26 AM
|  | Invert nut Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: QLD Gender:  | | | | remember the shed is larger then the snake it came off so the snake is probably only around 8ft |
07-Jan-07, 11:27 AM
| | Invert nut Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: QLD Gender: | | | | if you want a program that helps you measure the snake pm me |
07-Jan-07, 11:28 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Melbourne Eastern Suburbs Gender: | | | | The shed skin is much longer than the snake . The sheding process makes it elastic so it comes off easier . |
07-Jan-07, 11:58 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-04 Location: Somewhere near Brisbane | | | | A fresh shed is more than 30% longer than the snake itself. If a shed is 9 feet long than the snake could be 6 feet long. If you look at a shed skin you will notice the skin between each scale if visible whereas the skin on the snake is hidden, when you multiply the little bit of skin between each scale you can see how it stretches so much.
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07-Jan-07, 12:23 PM
| | Seller | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Brisvagas | | | | oh ok, bugger lol. Wee awkwadly trying to measure her with a tape measure (so not very accurate) we got close to 8ft so give or take a bit.
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