Scale for weighing herps!!

Dyesub Dave · #1 09-14-2008, 05:40 PM

Hi everybody ... I wasn't sure where to post this so I stuck it here. I want to get a scale for weighing my herps and was wondering what people here use or suggest.

Of course I don't want to spend a fortune however I don't want to get a piece of crap either. I was also wondering to what decimal point most people weigh their animals? ( Tenths or Hundredths of a gram? )

Any thoughts or suggestions that you have would be appreciated.

Thanks ... Dyesub Dave.

cliff_f · #2 09-14-2008, 06:08 PM

Just find a postal scale that weighs in grams. A office supply store would be a good place to look. I got mine off ebay.

lessthantito · #3 09-14-2008, 06:29 PM

for about $25 you can get a great my weigh scale on ebay and I also use grams

lifeainteasy20 · #4 12-26-2008, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyesub Dave

Hi everybody ... I wasn't sure where to post this so I stuck it here. I want to get a scale for weighing my herps and was wondering what people here use or suggest.

Of course I don't want to spend a fortune however I don't want to get a piece of crap either. I was also wondering to what decimal point most people weigh their animals? ( Tenths or Hundredths of a gram? )

Any thoughts or suggestions that you have would be appreciated.

Thanks ... Dyesub Dave.

I went to Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more and purchased an escali food scale. It costs about $20-$25 dollars and I originally bought it for my lizards but now I use it in the kitchen daily instead. It's a top rated scale and works great. Only weird problem I have had with it is when a cell phone that is in use gets near it, it scrambles numbers. Other then that it is consistent and it can tare off weight so you don't have to do any math of adding more.

Dyesub Dave · #5 01-11-2009, 12:22 PM

I ended up getting one of these yesterday on sale at Canadian Tire for only $10 .... Canadian Tire. Unfortunately it doesn't weigh tenths of grams but for the price it will do. I weighed a 6 week old crestie and it was 2 grams which seems about right according the the crestie growth chart I saw. ( Appox. weight of course.)

Dyesub Dave.

Rusty559 · #6 02-07-2010, 06:55 PM

the best scales if u ask me is from a head shop. aka a smoke shop. i bought one years ago, and it came in handy to weigh my geckos to make sure there healthy and up to size. it weighs to the .01 of a gram. only 12$