Re: Anyone Able to Provide ....
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Originally Posted by
mainbutter
The "tiger" gene in retics is a co-dom mutation.
There are various localities of retics, some are of different sizes, and even look a little different than mainland retics.
"Normal" retics, the most common in the pet trade, are big. They are giants, plain and simple. The tiger morph was originally found in regular full-sized retics if I understand things correctly.
Some people have crossed this morph into various "dwarf" retics (note that "dwarf" may still imply a giant animal, just not one with a 24+ foot potential) and "super dwarf" retics (and actually I don't know for sure if the tiger morph has been crossed into super dwarves), but I don't know anything about the full size potential of these locality hybrids.
Most likely any tiger retic or super tiger retic you find will have the potential to get HUGE.
As far as care and all that, any retic caresheet will work. Please keep in mind that keeping giants is not something to take lightly. The people who don't know what they are getting into but want that pretty retic they've seen pictures ovf are detrimental to the entire reptile hobby, and fuel anti-exotics lawmakers arguments.
Thank you for being the only one with a simple response I was looking for, nothing aggressive or mean. I'm not trying to take it lightly. I know there growing potential and I didn't wanna buy one right away. I wanted to learn, own more snakes before hand but the two tigers I saw were beautiful.
But I would never go into something unless I didn't know. I want to learn about these snakes, as well as, every other out there. They've grown apart of me since me first girl. It's only been a few months and once money settles for me, I want to expand my collection.
Thank you for the information. I'm letting this thread die, since I've gotten some pretty unpleasant responses.
