Looking for a 7-10 foot snake

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Originally Posted by Jyson

Super Dwarf Retics have amazing dispositions. if you can handle a honduran milksnake, then a super dwarf retic is nothing. ;)

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How long have you had your Dwarf. After reading about them, made me want to try a retic again. I can handle anything I have tried, of course I have been bit and musked numerous times LOL.

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Originally Posted by ohyeahnow

How long have you had your Dwarf. After reading about them, made me want to try a retic again. I can handle anything I have tried, of course I have been bit and musked numerous times LOL.

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I have had mine since the beginning of summer. ;)

I was thinkin. I think IJ's although maybe not the 7-10 foot mark, are a remarkably good looking snake. I know MPenn already posted some, but they ARE truly magnificent.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81...an/Carpet5.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81...an/Carpet6.jpg


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81.../newskinIJ.jpg
Super bright sorry ^

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Originally Posted by ohyeahnow

Red tailed boas are a great snake. If you want to stay with pythons the suggestion of a super dwarf retic is a good one. I do not know about their temperment, but the retics I had as a kid could get nasty. If you get a male red tailed it should reach the size you mentioned. Females can get a bit larger.

Make sure to quarantine the boa for longer than normal. If you had more snakes I would suggest a biopsie to rule out IBD. Pythons, and at least one king snake have gotten this symptom wise. The King was housed with a boa.

Source Dr. Jacobson's web page at University of Florida Vet school
http://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/college/de...easeVirus.html

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I have been doing a bit of reading lately on IBD in boas. Have heard many horror stories. I hate to say it but it is sort of scaring me off a bit. Read an article that said 50% of boas tested had IBD.
I just couldn't imagine getting a pet, having it become a part of my family, and then watching it get sick and die. I know that is a risk you take with ANY pet, but with how little is understodd abotu the disease...
I don't know, sway me guys.
How much do biopsies cost to rule out IBD?

Edit: And that a gorgeous looking carpet Pat, you've got just about everything don't you?

don't believe everything you read about IBD... it's very rare, even in boas. seriously. most of the stuff on the net is hype and a lot of it is people speculating about inclusion bodies being the cause of whatever neurological symptoms their snake exhibits. the truth is, pythons and boas are sensitive animals all things considered... encephylitis could be brought on by a variety of things. it's the less than qualified 'exotic vets' that tend to point to IBD when a snake goes downhill healthwise...when in reality, most of them don't even own the electron microscopes that would be necessary to detect IBD.

red tails are awesome :D most of my snakes are bci's and they have the best temperaments, plus they are the best feeders too, IME. my balls and my blood can be a bit of a pain sometimes as far as feeding goes. female bci's can get up to 10ft, and nice and girthy too, this is my 21lb 7-footer, lavona. i wish she would grow some more actually LOL

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...1/DSC05628.jpg

this is just her tail, to give you a bit of an idea how girthy she is:D

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...1/DSC04932.jpg

bcc boas normally get a little bigger than bci's though, i know of someone who had a 14ft female :O

She's a beauty! Yea sorta still lookin around. My mom and I chipped in to get my Dad a Plasma TV for his birthday, which he loved. So that, along with my lasik, is going to be the main financial focus for me over the next year or so. So once that's all done, I'll have to pick up something new.

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Originally Posted by boachick

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x...1/DSC05628.jpg

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Very nice! I had a female that was just over 10 ft. and weighed close to 40 lbs.

i was thinking this same thing actually i know a guy thats selling 5 vision 221 cages he was using for his womas.

colin you have some sweet looking carpets not just one all of them!

i really like all sorts of herps but i cant have them all unfortunately:(

i think pro exotics has a boleans on ks right now too

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Originally Posted by m00kfu

I wouldn't necessarily recomend a Boelen's. While I think they are great looking snakes, and I would love to own one myself someday, they are fairly new to captivity and not a whole lot is understood about their needs. In fact, there has only been a handful of successful breeding attempts so far.

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Actually, no one has succeeded. Oh and Dwarf Tiger retics! Dwarf Tigers are smaller and have awesome temperaments for retics.