Kalatoa 100% Pure SD Retic Progression (Pic heavy...)

I've really been tossing around the idea of building my own enclosure for Gene and making it custom sized. But at 6' - 7' and 4' tall will be heavy AF when it's made of wood and full sealed blah blah blah. Simple fix, get astroturf, radiant oil filled heater (need to make a surrounding for it) and a kiddie pool. Temp snake room run on ambient temps.

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Why so difficult little girl??

She's such a looker and I remember this first post like yesterday. I was envious that day. Sauzo and I went on high alert for SD x Dwarf stuff.

JM,

You'll get it figured out, I know you are a smart dude. Young and busy, but I think you said you are handy and that will come into play eventually.

Plus,,, the creative/art side of you leads me to believe if you build a unit yourself at some point, the jungles of the world will be jealous.

Another handy idea I have which may or may not be appealing. Find some type of AP arboreal unit, cut a hole in the bottom large enough for Philly to get through and do the same to the top of your T-25. Somehow join the cages together at the holes making it so they can still be broken down and separated but fully secure and give her an upstairs? Boaphile has "cubes" that can extend a 4 foot cage to a 6 footer. I'm sure AP could make something.

Just a thought since we are brainstorming.

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Hey! Just wanted to share a short progression of my now 6 month old Kalatoa Super Dwarf Retic. Not exactly a giant but a "tiny giant" of sorts. Apologies for some of the blurry cell phone pics, she doesn't exactly like to hold still for any period of time.
Here's Phyllis, hatched by Daniel Solis mid Feb (started pipping 2/11/16, clutch all out of the eggs by 2/14/16)

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Deep in shed the day she arrived (freezing cold and an entire day late... Thanks for sending her to Washington State after she was 20 min from my doorstep in Missouri, FedEx!)
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Exploring her new enclosure. Itty bitty at 50ish grams and three weeks old.

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Late march, about 6 weeks old here and all fired up!

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5 months old and taking a bath after she shed. Dramatic size increase but still tiny for a retic

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Just about 6 months old here. Does this every time she's out and I have a hat on. Growing like a weed! In the low 500 gram range up from low 50 gram range when she arrived.
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Mid yawn the other night.

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And Geoffrey, my 7 year old Pastel BP.

I can't get the most recent pictures to upload of Phyllis with her brightest colors yet when she was super fired up last night and looked amazing. Just wanted to share my newest critter with everyone! Thanks for looking!

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Why so difficult little girl??

She's such a looker and I remember this first post like yesterday. I was envious that day. Sauzo and I went on high alert for SD x Dwarf stuff.

JM,

You'll get it figured out, I know you are a smart dude. Young and busy, but I think you said you are handy and that will come into play eventually.

Plus,,, the creative/art side of you leads me to believe if you build a unit yourself at some point, the jungles of the world will be jealous.

Another handy idea I have which may or may not be appealing. Find some type of AP arboreal unit, cut a hole in the bottom large enough for Philly to get through and do the same to the top of your T-25. Somehow join the cages together at the holes making it so they can still be broken down and separated but fully secure and give her an upstairs? Boaphile has "cubes" that can extend a 4 foot cage to a 6 footer. I'm sure AP could make something.

Just a thought since we are brainstorming.

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Stacking would be a neat idea but I'm curious how to heat that.

Wonder if it's a night thing he likes? If you put his enclosure on top of the others?

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Originally Posted by Stearns84

I've really been tossing around the idea of building my own enclosure for Gene and making it custom sized. But at 6' - 7' and 4' tall will be heavy AF when it's made of wood and full sealed blah blah blah. Simple fix, get astroturf, radiant oil filled heater (need to make a surrounding for it) and a kiddie pool. Temp snake room run on ambient temps.

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I’ve been thinking about just building a cage too. I mean it’s just a big box with windows after all. But yeah it would be heavy as hell. Could make it more modular and easier to maneuver if I designed it though...


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Originally Posted by Gio

Why so difficult little girl??

She's such a looker and I remember this first post like yesterday. I was envious that day. Sauzo and I went on high alert for SD x Dwarf stuff.

JM,

You'll get it figured out, I know you are a smart dude. Young and busy, but I think you said you are handy and that will come into play eventually.

Plus,,, the creative/art side of you leads me to believe if you build a unit yourself at some point, the jungles of the world will be jealous.

Another handy idea I have which may or may not be appealing. Find some type of AP arboreal unit, cut a hole in the bottom large enough for Philly to get through and do the same to the top of your T-25. Somehow join the cages together at the holes making it so they can still be broken down and separated but fully secure and give her an upstairs? Boaphile has "cubes" that can extend a 4 foot cage to a 6 footer. I'm sure AP could make something.

Just a thought since we are brainstorming.

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I was actually looking at some of those boaphile designs earlier with the vertical pass through between the upstairs and downstairs. Not a bad idea really. Not really wild about cutting up cages but AP could cut replacement pieces if I ever wanted them back to normal. Good ideas all around here!


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Stacking would be a neat idea but I'm curious how to heat that.

Wonder if it's a night thing he likes? If you put his enclosure on top of the others?

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I’d probably just heat the bottom cage and let the heat panel give a mild warm spot in the space above it. Multiple climate zones available then
That crossed my mind too. Maybe just getting her cage higher in the stack would help? I’ve got taller posts and could get the bottom of her cage about 3’ off the ground... put the two T8s on the shelf below it?


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Originally Posted by RickyNY

JM, I found an old thread on a UK forum with people suggesting:

-They pushing because they want to breed.
-Giving them a smaller hide so they fit snuggly
-And lastly a guy had to turn his viv on it's back so the glass was the roof and had to re-arrange the heat and lighting. And it made his retic stop pushing.

I don't know brother, is up to you to try this ones. Good luck!

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Caesar pushed like crazy because he wanted to breed. After breeding 'season', he quit pushing. Females generally arent going to push as the males are the ones in competition and out looking for a female. Some males will also become aggressive during breeding season too. I am lucky that Caesar didnt get aggressive, just pushed all the time.

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Lol relative to a small bedroom she doesn’t look big. Get her back in her cage and she looks enormous. She might really need a 6’x3’x4’ but Jesus Christ that’s a big ass cage!


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Thats nuts. You must have a unique snake lol. I see so many huge retics stuffed in 18 inch or 2 foot tall cages and just sit there content. Maybe she just likes the 'fresh' air. I know when Caesar acts up, i can usually open a door and he will just curl up in front of the open door and sleep or balance on the litter dam and just sit there for hours.

Try letting the humidity drop down a good amount. Like i said before, Rosey and Caesar both dont like high humidity and will push and pace and overall be restless to the point of being all night until i open a door and let them out and let the humidity drop. Then i put them back and they are fine, until the humidity goes up again. Vicky and Gina seem to like the higher humidity though.

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Thats nuts. You must have a unique snake lol. I see so many huge retics stuffed in 18 inch or 2 foot tall cages and just sit there content. Maybe she just likes the 'fresh' air. I know when Caesar acts up, i can usually open a door and he will just curl up in front of the open door and sleep or balance on the litter dam and just sit there for hours.

Try letting the humidity drop down a good amount. Like i said before, Rosey and Caesar both dont like high humidity and will push and pace and overall be restless to the point of being all night until i open a door and let them out and let the humidity drop. Then i put them back and they are fine, until the humidity goes up again. Vicky and Gina seem to like the higher humidity though.

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Tried. Left the doors open all night, it got down to 59% humidity. Put her back in before going to see Jurassic World a little bit ago and just got home to see that she’s been raising hell the entire time... she ate only 5 days ago... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d90c549131.jpg


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Fed her, Gerald, and Geoffrey tonight. Forgot to mention I got her a concrete mixing tub/water bowl/pool yesterday. Need to remove the second from the left shelf support to fit its long side against the depth of the cage. Takes up a ton of space though. But she did use it immediately after eating like she always used to. Been in there for an hour or more. Maybe that’s something she’s been wanting? It is a mystery to me anymore. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...dd61d5ce7b.jpg
Maybe an 8’x2.5-3’x2’ cage with one giant tub/bowl and one big hide with a shelf covering 1/3 of the cage on the cool side halfway up the height or a tad more and another climbing obstacle to be determined. Unless AP can do something manageably modular at that scale I may get more serious about designing a custom plywood cage and deck that sucker out.


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