Well....

As i have been studying up on retics. I found a guy that actaully let me come to his house and handle a few of his retics today. One was male which was very mellow. and had a female he let me handle which was alot larger that was kind of flighty. But i think getting hands on experiance with these retics today is the most fun ive hand handling a snake. I think i can actaully see myself working with these guys in the future.

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Pretty yellowhead. There awesome huh? :)

Yes they. they just seem really awsome to work with.

Is Mark Henry from your town?

I have always been a boa guy, but I bought a male normal retic back in July. I now own a purple albino and am looking for a tiger female !! I am now hooked. They are just very cool snakes.:D

;) I have owned boas and a few various other species for several years now & recently I decided I was ready for a retic. From the moment I released Sundance, my sunfire retic from the snake bag she climbed onto my arm & into my heart! She is just the sweetest snake I own, except the albino granite burm I just got in a couple of weeks ago. She is awesome too, they are well worth trying if you want to move up to something larger than a boa.

Hope you decide to give 'em a try, you'll be glad you did! :snake::D

The only drawbacks about retics are their housing requirements and their grocery bill. If you can meet both of those needs then I say you should get one. If you decide to get one I would suggest that you get stacking cages, because when you get one you will want another LOL.

mark henry is from my town. Yes im getting a 3 stack enclosure its atleast 8ft long i got to get it here and setup before i pick up that big guy. He says he eats f/t 5lb rabbits once a month. Im getting a whole room situated for this big guy, and well of course my boas and balls. Im also looking into breeding the super dwarf retics later on down the line. I honestly didnt think id be as calm as i was handling him, after being bit by a very large boa in the past. but i felt as if he was just like a over grown ball python. Now the 150lb burmese i passed on hanlding because of how moody and flighty it could be.

mainlands have a better temperament then the dwarfs and super dwarfs. dwarfs can be flighty and nippy, and super dwarfs can be really flighty, so just a bit of a warning if you want to venture down that path. but otherwise, they are great :D

Yeah ive heard that about the s/d's there flighty but I can manage lol. that yellow head in the picture he seems just like a over grown ball python the way his temperment was not much seemed to really bother him. But still got to becreful. i know he has his own set of boundrys. I just wanted to try breeding the s/d's cause i figured id rather deal with a 6-7ft momma snake. than a 20ft momma snake lol.