Dream snake achieved!

I finally pulled the trigger on a Pied retic. And not only that, I got a visual Pied/het pied pair!!

1.0 Pied (poss tiger) poss het albino
0.1 het Pied poss het albino

Super stoked about this pair! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...fbad78d69c.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...b807b857d5.jpg

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Congrats! Those are some very beautiful animals. What are their ages?

Very cool. Wish I knew what all those terms mean but it will come with time. What is het?

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Congrats! Those are some very beautiful animals. What are their ages?

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He said 6 months old. They were maintenance fed to stay small so they sell at shows. I wish less breeders would do this as I much prefer to buy snakes with a little size to them, but obviously its easier for them to sell them small and keep them in hatchling racks longer.

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Very cool. Wish I knew what all those terms mean but it will come with time. What is het?

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The Pied that you see visually showing the Piebald gene is Homozygous for Piebald, aka he has the gene and you can visually see it. The normal "het" for pied means she is Heterozygous for the Piebald gene. This means she carries the gene inside of her but does not visually show it at all. Breeding a Visual Pied to a Het pied (this pair) means that 50% of the babies will be Visual Pieds like dad and 50% of the babies will be normals het pied like Mom.

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Nice pick up! Piers are awesome. If I were able to pick any two retic a to add to my home (I can’t lol) I’d go for a locale normal like Sulawesi and a nice pied.

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Nice pick up! Piers are awesome. If I were able to pick any two retic a to add to my home (I can’t lol) I’d go for a locale normal like Sulawesi and a nice pied.

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Pied was definitely top of my list. Almost certain he'll prove tiger. Also he has really nice silvers on the side that are gonna be crazy with age.

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Wow. Gorgeous snake! Really nice pickup!

Beautiful !!

i saw the first pic and was like oh man is that snake sick or something?? Looked thin and weird then I read pied and looked close and half of him is white and I was like ohhh. Total eye trick there !!

nice additions. Any idea on lineage or size. Etc?

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The Pied that you see visually showing the Piebald gene is Homozygous for Piebald, aka he has the gene and you can visually see it. The normal "het" for pied means she is Heterozygous for the Piebald gene. This means she carries the gene inside of her but does not visually show it at all. Breeding a Visual Pied to a Het pied (this pair) means that 50% of the babies will be Visual Pieds like dad and 50% of the babies will be normals het pied like Mom.

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OK, so there is a rhyme and reason to it. That makes sense. Now to master the rest. Thanks!

I love pieds and have always wanted one of our first three to be one. Now to pick out a couple for the last two.

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Beautiful !!

i saw the first pic and was like oh man is that snake sick or something?? Looked thin and weird then I read pied and looked close and half of him is white and I was like ohhh. Total eye trick there !!

nice additions. Any idea on lineage or size. Etc?

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Not sure. I didnt ask the parents size or what generation the offspring were. I have his card maybe I'll find out eventually.

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Nice....
You definately like the big ones!

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nice....
You definately like the big ones!

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:rolleyes::O:rolleyes::O:rolleyes::O

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Nice....
You definately like the big ones!

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Of course! I believe the big adults look much better with morphs than hatchlings.

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Grats and careful what you wish for lol. I was hoping Caesar would have stayed fairly small.....but he is now pushing 9-10ft at almost 3 years old. And he is a 37.5% SD, 31.5% dwarf and 31% mainland. He's as thick as a pop can and heavy enough to bend a heavy duty snake hook(which he has done lol).

I personally would have been all over a pied retic if i didnt spend all my cash on two GTPs, one Gila and one beaded lizard lol.

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Grats and careful what you wish for lol. I was hoping Caesar would have stayed fairly small.....but he is now pushing 9-10ft at almost 3 years old. And he is a 37.5% SD, 31.5% dwarf and 31% mainland. He's as thick as a pop can and heavy enough to bend a heavy duty snake hook(which he has done lol).

I personally would have been all over a pied retic if i didnt spend all my cash on two GTPs, one Gila and one beaded lizard lol.

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The bigger the better here! I don't like dwarf anything.

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Awesome additions J. What size enclosures do you use for your biguns?

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Awesome additions J. What size enclosures do you use for your biguns?

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Everything from 2x4s to 3x8s depending on their size

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Originally Posted by Jnksnakes

I finally pulled the trigger on a Pied retic. And not only that, I got a visual Pied/het pied pair!!

1.0 Pied (poss tiger) poss het albino
0.1 het Pied poss het albino

Super stoked about this pair! https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...fbad78d69c.jpghttps://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...b807b857d5.jpg

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Grats! I love the pied look in retics. Love the species. I am at my max for them but so amazing. Grazts again.

Beautiful animals. How are they temperate wise? I was watching one of nerds videos the other day and he was saying how his pieds are less "trustworthy" then other morphs for some reason. Curious what you see.

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Beautiful animals. How are they temperate wise? I was watching one of nerds videos the other day and he was saying how his pieds are less "trustworthy" then other morphs for some reason. Curious what you see.

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They are babies so they have typical baby temperament. Will find out as they age.

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My dream snake is simple.....
I want a solid white snake.
I cannot afford to get a leucistic BP, so I would be happy with a blizzard corn snake! This would also give me the experience of owning another wonderful docile snake

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Pied retics are so awesome. Not a fam of pied BPs but surprisingly I do like them as retics. Gratz on the amazing critter.

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I finally pulled the trigger on a Pied retic. And not only that, I got a visual Pied/het pied pair!!

1.0 Pied (poss tiger) poss het albino
0.1 het Pied poss het albino

Super stoked about this pair! https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...fbad78d69c.jpghttps://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...b807b857d5.jpg

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Pity about the white background... in this particular photo ...

The white of the snake disappeared over the white paper :)

I initially wondered why the snake was jagged !!

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Pity about the white background... in this particular photo ...

The white of the snake disappeared over the white paper :)

I initially wondered why the snake was jagged !!

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He will look much better on my Reptichip! I noticed dead mites on him so I opted with papertowel as I treat and toss bedding every week.

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How is he doing?

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How is he doing?

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He is adjust well and still pounding weaned rats.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...1042be4c0a.jpg

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just saw this, Congrats on the awesome pick ups!
Retic pieds are hit or miss for me. I like the one you got, great color!