well a scrubby grows to about 28 ft
well a scrubby grows to about 28 ft an olive on average is about 10 ft
Nephrurus said:well a scrubby grows to about 28 ft an olive on average is about 10 ft
28 foot? :lol: Come on, thats closing in on about 9 metres. Perhaps you meant 18 foot, still enormous none the less.
-H
Yeah but people also claim to have a 6ft brown snake in their backyard and when you turn up it's a 30cm Blue tongue.
basketcase said:its your first big snake go an olive. but even then make sure you get a well tempered hatchling.
PilbaraPythons said:There are many people in the Herp community including John Weigel who are very skeptical about scrub pythons ever reaching sizes bigger than 22 feet.
I personally believe that very rare individuals do indeed exceed that length. I have seen a 22 foot one before and once saw one in the wild that was in my opinion even bigger, although I never did get to measure it. Scrub pythons growth rates slow down dramatically at about round 6 years of age and I think from memory this was a conclusion arrived at by Simon Fearn who was doing radio tracking and studies with this particular species at Tully Gorge. There is no doubt that most stories of mammoth sized scrub pythons are just exaggerated tales and large specimens over 20 feet are not a size typically reached. I think it is like the salt water crocodile, some are genetically governed to become large and other max out a lot smaller at the same age. I have seen a water python so big that I very rarely ever mention it to any body because was so ridiculously bigger than their known maximum size it is just too hard for people to believe. It makes me wonder what other huge pythons are out there some where.
Cheers Dave
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