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wood11
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 29/09/2011 : 19:34:52
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| Strange question maybe but what's the best way to measure your snake? I haven't had much success in getting her to get her straight enough to get a fairly accurate measurement! |
Edited by - gmac on 29/09/2011 19:54:30 |
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wood11
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
29 Posts |
Posted - 29/09/2011 : 19:35:41
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| ok to many gets and getting there but you know what I mean! |
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wood11
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
29 Posts |
Posted - 29/09/2011 : 19:36:20
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| or even TOO many! |
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Emmy1
Yearling
707 Posts |
Posted - 29/09/2011 : 19:36:48
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| See if you can lay out some string besides her when shes fully stretched, then measure the string. |
0.1.0 Anery Corn Snake
1.0.0 Normal Western Hognosed Snake
1.0.0 Albino California Kingsnake
1.1.0 Bearded Dragons (Wildtype, Hypo)
0.0.3 Shubunkin Goldfish |
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kdlang
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
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wood11
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
29 Posts |
Posted - 29/09/2011 : 20:34:00
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| Thank you for that. I have used the markers to mark out the snake but then I am stuck! what do you do next? |
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wood11
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
29 Posts |
Posted - 29/09/2011 : 20:38:18
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| ...reading the instructions! lol |
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ptmbradley
Yearling
United Kingdom
676 Posts |
Posted - 29/09/2011 : 21:11:45
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Originally posted by kdlang
This is the recent update which is supposed to be better but I haven't been able to get to work yet.
http://www.thecornsnake.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19684
I did have it working but seems to take an age to load the image. So now I just do a quick resize to about 1500 pixels and it's been working fine. Not overly better than the original but I do prefer it.  |
Corns: 1.1 Anery, 1.1 Butter, 1.0 Carolina, 0.1 Hypo, 1.1 Snow, 1.0 Sunkissed
Boas: 0.1 Arabesque, 1.0 Brazilian Rainbow, 0.1 Crawl Cay, 1.1 Hogg Island X, 0.1 Hypo Hogg, 0.1 Kahl Albino (poss coral)
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garrie
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1148 Posts |
Posted - 30/09/2011 : 09:42:41
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| Currently, to measure AURYN, i wait for him to start making his way around the edge of his home...when his tail is at a corner i see where his head is and then measure that distance with a good ol' Christmas cracker measuring tape |
^click for more pics^
Garrie - Halesworth, Suffolk. 1.0 AURYN (fire morph corn) 0.1 Puzzle (Cat) |
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polarchick
Egg
United Kingdom
73 Posts |
Posted - 30/09/2011 : 19:45:42
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| I just used the snake measurer for the first time, and it seemed to work very easily - but I did resize the photo before I uploaded it. 2 separate photos gave very similar results. |
1.0.0 CB11 Carolina corn snake - Hygge |
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mohikan22
Snake Mite
33 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2011 : 11:10:51
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| errrm have you not just measured the last shed? i do., as soon as the snakes have she di measure it. simple as that. |
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a33272
our battery charger
United Kingdom
3063 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2011 : 11:22:23
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Originally posted by mohikan22
errrm have you not just measured the last shed? i do., as soon as the snakes have she di measure it. simple as that.
an how do u calculate how much to add or subtract from the shed due to stretch when fresh an shrinkage when dryed within an hour of the shed?
a shed can be as much as 10% longer than the snake it came from, thats 3cm's for every foot of snake. which on a average 4ft corn equates to 12cm. so not too accurate by my standards |
    
0.1.0 creamsicle corn-Marmalade
1.0.0 jungle carpet python-Bumble
1.0.0 corn Casper
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mohikan22
Snake Mite
33 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2011 : 11:45:38
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because it works. unless u really are so precise about precision. should it matter? obviously for a vets etc yes but for yaself? im happy its alive and well and growing :D
you could always freeze ya snake to stop it moveing 
but itll be right annoyed when it wakes up  |
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a33272
our battery charger
United Kingdom
3063 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2011 : 14:05:41
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| but why bother to measure it if ya not intrested in it being acurate |
0.1.0 creamsicle corn-Marmalade
1.0.0 jungle carpet python-Bumble
1.0.0 corn Casper
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scottishbluebird
it is all my fault
United Kingdom
8403 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2011 : 15:02:29
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Originally posted by a33272
but why bother to measure it if ya not intrested in it being acurate
I did wonder this also! |
     
0.1.0 Corn - Kellogs
1.0.0 Hognose - Storm
0.1.0 Staffy - Lyla
1.0.0 Spaffy(staffy x springer)-Spyro
1.0.0 Ferret - Peanut R.I.P
0.1.0 Crestie - Fudge. Wish List - Pygmy hedgehog. Tropiocolotes |
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mohikan22
Snake Mite
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Posted - 07/10/2011 : 15:43:56
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well people ask and its nice to have a rough idea. "how big is your snake?" hmm big. or long.. i prefer to say about 4'10" or 5ft ish.. nothing to be so precise about.
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How to measure a snake
