Went to the Reptile Expo today...

[snakesonaplane]

Oh my God, I just saw the most beautiful thing ever. My eyes bled from the magnificence of this python...



Apparently, it's a genetic mutation from breeding two boas together. I don't remember which, but I'll take a picture of the parents when I go back tomorrow. He has the parents that bred that one for sale for $800 for the pair. But, apparently it's an extremely rare mutation, as the $15,000 price tag reflects. However, she is female and dominant traits show up often enough to reproduce the effect, though mutations are visible 5% of the time or so. Damn, I want that one so badly. If I didn't have to eat or pay bills, I'd totally sell my soul for this snake, lol

[purplemuffin]

That's amazing that breeding two boas will make a reticulated python!

She is gorgeous!

[Jonas@Balls2TheWall]

Man I would have bought those het retic boa parents. lol

J.K.... Great looking snake!

[snakesonaplane]

Lol, yeah...my bad. Retic pythons maybe, not boas. I didn't really listen to the guy explain it, I was too mesmerized by this marvelous creature

[Ash]

Wow. I'd love to see it when it's fully grown! Imagine a huge 15-foot retic, all white.

[decensored]

lol at the boa jokes! Yeah the Leucistic retics are sweet animals! Thanks for sharing!

[Pickenprod]

$800 for two snakes that could make more of these beauties, vs. $1500 for just the one? I know what I'd be getting

[snakesonaplane]

$800 for two snakes that could make more of these beauties, vs. $1500 for just the one? I know what I'd be getting

The mind is willing, but the wallet is weak

[Royal Hijinx]

$15,000 for that one or the snakes with the ingredients for $800, wow at the difference there.

[snakesonaplane]

$15,000 for that one or the snakes with the ingredients for $800, wow at the difference there.

I figure he probably had 10+ clutches before he got the $15k one. I asked him the same thing, he's selling the parents because this genetic mutation is apparently extremely rare. He's an experienced breeder, so I suppose he had no reason to fabricate that fact. But yeah, amazing difference.