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My Retics.

CMRetics

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Thought I'd show a couple pictures of some of my animals/some of the stuff I had that I cleared out to make space for project stuff...

My big Tiger het albino. Ignore the bad shed, that's why she's in the kitchen. Most of her shed was all over her cage so I let her stretch/rub on the cabinets while I cleaned her cage. It's amazing how much shed these guys put out and the places you'll find pieces of it LOL. She's about 18' 120lbs or so. She was too underweight IMO to breed this season, so I'm slamming her with rabbits in anticipation for next season.


Normal het female before breeding. She's around 13-14'


Normal het female laying eggs.


Normal male burm I had. That was from the day I got him. He was about 11-12' Mostly tame, treated him for an RI/dehydration and got that shed off him. He came to me looking almost black because of the amount of sheds on him, and he was not happy that first night LOL


Normal female retic 10-12' long. Was owned by a drug dealer too afraid to work with her, never struck but took forever to switch to rabbits. Very flighty snake after 2 years of no handling before me... She's with a friend of mine now and still doing great.


My 12' female albino burm, sold her to one of my local breeders still working with burms so I had room for more retics.


My little yellow anaconda- also went to a friend of mine with a male yellow. Tried for 6 months to track down a male for sale to no avail, really a shame that they are on the lacey act... This girl was mean as hell, but gorgeous colors. When she produces I'm first in line for a pair!


My Supertiger possible sunfire possible het albino male, father of the clutch above. Super docile, he's a great educational animal. Had a bad mouth infection from pushing, but has healed up and is such a pretty snake.


My tiger male. This snake got me started on retics. I got him from a guy keeping him on a 2x2x6' tall cage. He fed him stuff he trapped behind his house.. 2 stuck eyecaps on each eye (so much fun to remove on a 15' snake). Treated heavily for parasites, and gotten back up to weight. He was very docile, great to work with, just too big to be a breeder. Went to a pet store the city over who was going to use him as a display/educational animal. They went under, never paid for him (not really upset about that), and tossed him around to another breeder up here. I worry often that this snake is not being taken care of properly, but me and the breeder are not on speaking terms.
 
"Does this snake make my kitchen look small?"

LOL, it really does make my kitchen look pretty tiny. It's pretty big for an apartment complex kitchen. So I can't complain! Can't wait to move though, much bigger facility for the herps and for the feeders/pet rabbits I work with!
 
Can't imagine keeping multiple large snakes in an apartment. A little crowded? :shrugs: Bet your landlord loves you. ;)

Haha, it's not that bad, it's a pretty decent sized apartment, but it was temporary. Moving into my new house within a few months. Just waiting to get it finished. Don't have my stove installed, my cabinets, washer, dryer ETC yet. Not that big of a deal.
 
I love a normal retic...they have such a beautiful pattern and color! Nice collection!
 
I love a normal retic...they have such a beautiful pattern and color! Nice collection!

They are super underrated, I'm keeping the normal het I have even as a pet after she's done producing for me. She seems to be staying a fairly small size and probably won't even reach 14', so she'll be a very manageable pet, and when she's fired up her colors are outstanding..
 
I think normals in most species are being passed by these days for more and more spectacular morphs. While I think there are some beautiful morphs in lots of things, I think a normal retic, or even a wild type cornsnake are beautiful. I absolutely adore my plain jane green tree python. She's quite popular with the kids.
 
Female tiger het today. I'm slamming her with rabbits this summer to get some size/weight on her so she maybe goes this season....


Het albino female looking better after 8 lbs of rabbit. This girl gave me a clutch a few months back now getting some size on her as well. Definitely has outgrown that old VE175 tub. At least it's a good holding tub still LOL.
 
Both are beautiful. Good luck on the tigers! Hope you get some!

All hatchlings will be at least tiger 66% PH albino, I'm hoping he proves that albino and his possible sunfire out too.. I could use a holdback female purple suntiger but I won't count my chickens...

More pics:

Big 18' tiger het. She's had about a half dozen locks with my white phase tiger 66% PH stripe so far, and has refused food this week... We'll see I guess :)


White phase tiger 66% PH Stripe:



13'-14' female tiger 66% PH albino/stripe


Hopefully that 18' tiger proves her het, and I get some purple supers, going to throw that boy on this 13'ish foot female too and hopefully try and prove her hets out as well... The male and the second tiger are prehistoric pets stock and They feel like they both have strong visual markers but who knows... I won't complain about some purple super tiger genetic stripes if I hit them. Lets hope for 2 males on that one!
 
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