communal housing and different sized snakes

[Rook]

Some snakes are just giants. My old male is just over 3 ft long. Absolutely dwarfs all the other males I've seen. It's so extreme I actually thought my others were sick or stunted at first lol. (and he's definitely male too; his breeding season behavior pretty much confirms it)

lol we had Garter's prior to Miami so we were NOT expecting her size, we imported her from Florida through a 3rd party so I never saw her until she arrived, we were expecting this snake similar in size of Rook when I lost her, and this absolutely huge snake arrives, we looked at her and had to go get all new stuff because she dwarfed everything we had..then she still grew a whole 'nuther foot on top of that!

[d_virginiana]

we imported her from Florida

That may explain a lot. Florida locales kind of have a reputation for especially large individuals. The Florida Blue morph of Easterns (which is what the male I was talking about is) seem to be larger than a lot of other Easterns.

[Zdravko092368]

That may explain a lot. Florida locales kind of have a reputation for especially large individuals. The Florida Blue morph of Easterns (which is what the male I was talking about is) seem to be larger than a lot of other Easterns.

I've noticed Florida blues are huge, idk if they are on average bigger than the melanistic easterns on lake Erie though, every female I find is 3 feet, it's like the average size lol.

[d_virginiana]

I've noticed Florida blues are huge, idk if they are on average bigger than the melanistic easterns on lake Erie though, every female I find is 3 feet, it's like the average size lol.

I love melanistics! I really want one.

I once caught a Florida blue female that was pushing four feet (she was just chilling on an old camping road, so I laid down and used myself as a ruler lol). No idea if that's the norm or not, but that one at least was an absolute monster.