Need help identifying a dwarf retic...

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Originally Posted by bcr229

I have some 50% SD 100% purple females. They should top out 11-12 feet, what I call a nice size for a retic. Big enough to be fun, but not giants.

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I'm not sure a 50% SD will get that big. The one I bought is actually 50% dwarf, not super dwarf. I've heard 11-12 feet on 50% dwarf, probably a foot or two smaller for the SD and probably much thinner for SD.

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Originally Posted by cchardwick

I'm not sure a 50% SD will get that big. The one I bought is actually 50% dwarf, not super dwarf. I've heard 11-12 feet on 50% dwarf, probably a foot or two smaller for the SD and probably much thinner for SD.

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My females 50% SD's are both 2014's. One had the colon resection surgery earlier this year so she's smaller and thinner than the other, maybe 8'. The other is right at 10' now and just starting to get thicker instead of longer.

On The Retic Nation there are some pictures of an older 100% dwarf female that is in the 14-15' range.

There are 100% Jampeas that are over 16' . . . Jampea does not really classify as a dwarf in all cases, but it is a dwarf in some cases. Each case will be unique. My 50% Jampea male is over 10' right now and is 3.5 years old. My 62.5% Jampea female that was from a het to het breeding (50% to 75% jampea) is just under 5 years old and is a solid 14' and definitely in the borderline of safe handling solo (she requires two people if you take her out to handle guaranteed, but one person can shift her from cage to cage for cleaning).

This snake is probably not het anthrax / graniteback / shatter. There are "two types" of anthrax out there, but its just marketing as they both get you the same thing. NERD Produces their anthrax and their hets are referred to as graniteback. Graniteback MOST of the time is visual. All the het anthrax stuff I've seen shows the same diffusion on the neck and some diffusion on the back pattern. . . Shatter is what Prehistoric pets calls their het anthrax. Again, marketing. The two are compatible, and they both have semi-visual hets. If Matt sold it to you as a poss het, which by % it would be (really depends if he produced any anthrax in this breeding which I'm nearly positive he did not since only nerd had produced albino anthrax maybe last year).

Please be smart with retics in public. Many cities will have some kind of ordinance. My city has loose laws but one weird one for sure - I can have nearly any reptile but I can not have a reptile loose in the city limits, meaning by ordinance, I would not be allowed to have a snake with me walking around (not that I would). The photos you show are of Burmese, much slower moving giants that are more or less complacent to just sit around. Retics do not act this way in most cases. Sometimes they will move a little bit, some times they will take off on you. Always exercise caution and respect.

No morph idea but she is a beauty and I'd go with naming her Pumpkin! As mentioned, those pics are all of big lazy burms. I'm sure you've been researching a lot but I really hope you don't think you'll be able to lounge around with it like that. I don't have a retic but close friends have a few and I've helped move their 22', couple hundred pound female and even she was used to being moved (they do educational reptile shows) and still wirey like a little colubrid.