Caesar progression thread.

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Originally Posted by Gio

It is very difficult to know what you have.

Dwarf and Super Dwarf labels are marketing terms. Retics, like some other boas/pythons have locality populations. The more reading and researching I've done, has indicated populations within the mainland inhabitants and islands dwellers to have fairly significant variation.

Unfortunately, locality reticulated python breeding has not taken on the movement or cult following like locality boa constrictor breeding. In Australia, the carpet python folks find pure locality animals important.

You may have a smaller mainland, you may have something else in the genetics. Morphs pretty much change the whole game.

This seems to be a fairly honest look at some locality type animals. Mostly photos.

https://localityretics.wordpress.com



This video has some interesting info.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs6v3CDIjc

It doesn't sound like you were given much info about your snake prior to purchase. It is still a beautiful snake and you will enjoy it no matter what.

Growth does slow dramatically once they hit the 2 year mark.

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I was told the mom was 16' was not given much info on her dad. Thanks for the info. You know I am a sponge and love to read and learn.

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Originally Posted by Skyrivers

I was told the mom was 16' was not given much info on her dad. Thanks for the info. You know I am a sponge and love to read and learn.

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I added another link after you responded.

I try to compare my guy's head scale pattern to the 3 illustrations in the link.

Mine is a mix with dwarf, SD and some mainland.

I use this photo and try to see how he stacks up.

http://i.imgur.com/C0xdcAB.jpg

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Originally Posted by Gio

I added another link after you responded.

I try to compare my guy's head scale pattern to the 3 illustrations in the link.

Mine is a mix with dwarf, SD and some mainland.

I use this photo and try to see how he stacks up.

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/C0xdcAB.jpg

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I will try to get a good head pic tonight for you to compare.

I added the best 1 on my phone just now. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...293b80c513.jpg

Here r the photos. Tell me what you think. I can't tell any difference. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6ae1f1f9f3.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...8b6c095425.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...7ebef491fe.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...e25bc4738e.jpg

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Like Gio said, there is really no telling what you got as breeding retics is a pretty loose thing unless you got something like a superdwarf or dwarf mix or a morph like a OGS or pied or some other 'expensive' gene.

If she had any of that in her, I'm sure it would have been brought up when you bought her

Ok i'm kind of at a loss here. I think Caesar is up to something. He has been really well behaved this past week. Not pushing, not tearing stuff up. Last night he was stretched out across his shelf just relaxing and during the day he sleeps in his hides. When i open a door, he pops out to greet me and then sits there for a bit and then goes back into his hide. It 2 days until feeding day and he is really relaxed. Could his terror reign before have been because he wanted a woman? I am confused as Caesar has never been this mellow so close to feeding day lol. And here's a pic of Caesar wondering why he was downgraded to a T8 lol.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...d3d519b3_h.jpg

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Originally Posted by Sauzo

Ok i'm kind of at a loss here. I think Caesar is up to something. He has been really well behaved this past week. Not pushing, not tearing stuff up. Last night he was stretched out across his shelf just relaxing and during the day he sleeps in his hides. When i open a door, he pops out to greet me and then sits there for a bit and then goes back into his hide. It 2 days until feeding day and he is really relaxed. Could his terror reign before have been because he wanted a woman? I am confused as Caesar has never been this mellow so close to feeding day lol. And here's a pic of Caesar wondering why he was downgraded to a T8 lol.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...d3d519b3_h.jpg

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Hey bud,

I wonder if he's topping off and ready to slow way down in growth. He is coming up on 2 years old.

Looks great man!

Such a sweetheart, maybe he was looking for the love of a lovely lady noodle:P heck don't look a gift horse in the mouth if he is chill and content I say roll with it like kids he may want to tear it up later you never know :rolleyes: but gorgeous picture love see this handsome fella. Thank you ever so much for sharing :D

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Originally Posted by Gio

Hey bud,

I wonder if he's topping off and ready to slow way down in growth. He is coming up on 2 years old.

Looks great man!

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Thanks and possibly. Maybe I'll try a 2 weeker again and see how it goes. Last time it ended with a hamburger faced Caesar lol.

And yeah, he'll be 2 years old next month.

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Originally Posted by C.Marie

Such a sweetheart, maybe he was looking for the love of a lovely lady noodle:P heck don't look a gift horse in the mouth if he is chill and content I say roll with it like kids he may want to tear it up later you never know :rolleyes: but gorgeous picture love see this handsome fella. Thank you ever so much for sharing :D

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Hahaha, so true. I'm not complaining about him being laid back. I just know Caesar and it's like he's plotting something. I swear, when you look at a retic and they look at you, its like you can see the gears in it's head turning lol. Something with their eyes and them looking you directly in the face...eye to eye contact lol.

I'll have to read up,

I'm not sure when the typical breeding season is for retics. I have no interest in breeding so I've not concerned myself with it, but as you said, behavior changes for the better may indicate something.

Wallace has never arched or pushed. He's a little cranky getting out of the cage but after that he is very nice. He tends to be a lot busier than the others when out and can be annoying when I want to relax. Other than that I find Wallace very easy.

Caesar is more food driven and a bit older so he may have a few things going on. Wallace is about a month behind or maybe only 13 days (June 1st) in age.

I'm really glad Caesar is not pushing and is maybe less hungry.

Keep the updates coming. Nothing new on my end, just some bad shed between the eyes. :mad: