Jesus i was looking on the internet for Royal Python Body Sense and i came across this, it makes me so angry what is more the guy says he has had 30+ hands on experience of keeping reptiles.

Here is the link if you want to read it but i have highlighted the bit that really angers me below:

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How do i get my royal python to get bigger than normal as fast possile?

• 1 year ago

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Give him/her the largest enclosure possible and feed according to the growth rate, you must be careful not to overfeed any reptile as they may have problems with digesting which could lead to more drastic health problems. As you get to now your snakes feeding habits in a larger enclosure, you will naturally know how much and how often to feed. Reptile grow fasterin the wild naturally because they are not closed in. Most reptiles in captivity grow at a much slower rate in captivity due to lack of space, thus they eat less as well. Lack of space results in less exercise and creates a decline in metabolism. Common sense.

• 1 year ago

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Thirty seven years reptile experience. Observation, collecting and handling of wild and captive bred.

It's just an opinion from someone else who thinks his experience overrides books and other peoples experience Jake.

No worse than a lot of others I've read

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Good idea giving a snake some more space.

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Yea but sticking a royal in the biggest viv possible and feeding it as much as possible is NUTS!!!
we all no they get stressed with huge spaces and we all know they go off feeding so why the hell that guy telling him to do that lol

Yea lol its not a gold fish that grows to the size of it enclosure lol, its a snake it will grow to its natural length lol

As long as you place a few more hiding areas more space is better. Feeding your animal isn't a problem, it's overfeeding, I feed my smaller snakes as much as I can..... as long as they don't get overweight!

Funny thing is, I'm betting a two-year-old captive python with someone who feeds on a regular weekly schedule with fat, happy domesticated rodents is bigger and heavier than a wild two-year-old royal python who eats a scrawny, skinny wild rat whenever one's available - and that could be days, weeks or months between.

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Maybe a big viv with lots of hiding places worked for him dude.

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Goldfish dont grow to the size of their enclosure and get upto 14". They need huge tanks.

Just thought you'd like to know.

And the guy does say "be careful not to overfeed". I dont think he's telling the moron asking the question to powerfeed or anything, just to give it a bigger viv so it can exercise more... which is stupid.

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perhaps he meant Koi instead of goldfish - they grow to their pond size