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figure of 8 woma

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Baby platinum retic

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ok viper not python...do you trust her??

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Purple Albino Retic

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Albino Tiger retic - what a difference a few months make!

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New natural set ups

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Theres a timor in there somewhere

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Sunfire retic

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Some beautiful snakes there
Are they yours ?

Yup all mine and my other halfs ( PerN )

Its a small section of the collection that makes up the zoo in my house! I dont remember normal life anymore :/

hehe yea know the feeling I have cut back my collection until I get new tanks built which will hopefully be around the summer then I can start getting a few more

St3ve76 wrote:hehe yea know the feeling I have cut back my collection until I get new tanks built which will hopefully be around the summer then I can start getting a few more

Built my own back in sept, now in the process of moving to the flatpack wooden ones......just a tip, seal them well and avoid contiboard..... :P

What did you use to seal them ?
I was going to buy the units from Ikea then make the fronts myself.

St3ve76 wrote:What did you use to seal them ?
I was going to buy the units from Ikea then make the fronts myself.

Well per was at hamm returning to 2 days so I used what i thought to be the barest amount of silicon nessecary so it would dry quick and air out in time for it to be safe......turns out I misunderestimated the minimum needed

They really are nice. I always love retics, the patterning is so stunning. Not sure it is something I could ever cope with myself though, but I always admire them.

midori wrote:They really are nice. I always love retics, the patterning is so stunning. Not sure it is something I could ever cope with myself though, but I always admire them.

cheers! is it the size that would put you off? superdwarfs and jampeas!!!

Great pics Lauren, nice 1.

Regarding superdwarfs and jampeas, are they crazy money in general and are they readily available? Whilst I adore the big retics they just aint fo me given the room I have available.

Cheers

Cheers guys

Herpalist, depends on what you call crazy money. Bob Clarks sells Superdwarfs and Jampeas at 650usd and 550usd respectively. Honestly they are cheaper again in mainland Europe, he is quite pricey by US standards.

Retic enthusiasts will know the costs of some of the morphs and locales out there and know that dwarfs arent considered expensive. Someone who is getting into the hobby will probably have a different view though :P You for example know what a Kahl strain boa costs and are probably happy to pay that. If I was starting out with two corns and a leo, I 'd think you were crazy.

All about perspective. I personally think theyre cheap for what they are and a good investment. Dwarf retics are the way foward once you start working the morphs in

Thanks Lauren. It is the size that puts me off. My husband has to work away a lot and I have children, so I need snakes that can be reliably safely handled by one adult. (woman in my case) I know the likelehood of anything happening is extremely rare, but I have to be on the safe side.

How big do the superdwarfs get? Although concentrating on the Royals and corns for now, they are something I might consider in the future.

I agree on pricing too. When I got the corns I thought £200 was pricey, now i have the Royals too, I think something for £200 is cheap.

The price thing is all about progression. Starting out I was like, 300e???? Now I'm like, hmmmm only 1500e, I could rearrange this, skip that, miss that and then get it. wow thats cheap!!!

Superdwarfs max around 6 -7 foot. Retics are slender bodied in comparison to say a burm so they are quite managable. They will only get more and more popular. Size is the major issue for anyone keeping retics. We have 16 or so in the house, 4 dwarfs and a few smaller locales but at the end of the day, theres still a lotta big snakes!! Trying to hold off buying more but its just so damn tempting lol

If we get babies in the next few season , I'll give you a shout and we can do a mate trade :)

you gotta love the colour on that viper, im guessing its one of those white lipped vipers?