Het Anthrax, Purple Tiger, and Kayuadis... RETICS!!

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WOW NICE!!! That albino is awesome!!! Is s/he lav? How about some more albino pics?
Oh ya, Welcome:carrot:

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Originally Posted by Pork Chops N' Corn Bread

WOW NICE!!! That albino is awesome!!! Is s/he lav? How about some more albino pics?

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she is one of very few purple tigers i have seen... you caould say she is a dark lavender, being from the lavender albino bloodline.

here is a few more albino pics...

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few more of the Het Anthrax:

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Grrrrr I wish they didn't get so big!!!! I love them all. How many tics do you keep?

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Originally Posted by Pork Chops N' Corn Bread

Grrrrr I wish they didn't get so big!!!! I love them all. How many tics do you keep?

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they dont all get huge... males can usually stay about the same size as a scrub python (yes that is still too big for some people to manage).... food is a big factor in growth... although retics grow their whole life... you can usually keep them from getting 20ft (all depends on parents genetics and food). i have 2yr old males that are still under 10ft and eat like twice a week... on the other hand i have female retics that will eat everyday if i let them. :taz:

...but who cant have at least one 20ft (*insert morph here*) retic in their shop or collection? :)

oh ya thanks for the welcome... i have a lot of retics... mostly females. :)

i think i am at 14 retics total.

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wow! it is hard to believe those little guys will get so big. that het anthrax is one mean looking snake

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Originally Posted by Dr Satan

...but who cant have at least one 20ft (*insert morph here*) retic in their shop or collection? :)

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Me and anyone that lives in a city with BS laws:mad:

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

wow! it is hard to believe those little guys will get so big. that het anthrax is one mean looking snake

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there is actually a slight physiological advantage to being big if your poikilothermic...

surface to volume ratio is larger, therefore less metabolic energy is lost from the body into the environment - that means bigger meals, less often.

life (in biological terms) is all about conserving energy, in a energy draining world. :2cent:

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Originally Posted by Pork Chops N' Corn Bread

Me and anyone that lives in a city with BS laws:mad:

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ignorance and fear... thats too bad. all it takes sometimes is one person to ruin it for all the others... :(

i think educating the public about all reptiles is the key. there is so much to learn. :)

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Originally Posted by Dr Satan

ignorance and fear... thats too bad. all it takes sometimes is one person to ruin it for all the others... :(

i think educating the public about all reptiles is the key. there is so much to learn. :)

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Yep, I agree. I got my Grandma from Hating snakes to letting them live at her house for over 3 months!!! lmao I'm still considering applying for a permit of somesort to be able to keep a tic in the future. Mind you I'm only 16 and a retic is still far from what I can handle. Redtails(new pics up now in the Boa section) are big enough for me now.

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Originally Posted by Pork Chops N' Corn Bread

Yep, I agree. I got my Grandma from Hating snakes to letting them live at her house for over 3 months!!! lmao I'm still considering applying for a permit of somesort to be able to keep a tic in the future. Mind you I'm only 16 and a retic is still far from what I can handle. Redtails(new pics up now in the Boa section) are big enough for me now.

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i live in eastern washington state... all herps are legal to keep here except native ones.

on the westside of the state (seattle) all snakes over 10ft are banned in city limits... including boas.

... pretty lame if you ask me. rules are established all because of one or two people who lack presence of mind (ie -free roaming snakes in the house, anthropormorphizing wild animals :colbert: ).

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Originally Posted by Dr Satan

i live in eastern washington state... all herps are legal to keep here except native ones.

on the westside of the state (seattle) all snakes over 10ft are banned in city limits... including boas.

... pretty lame if you ask me. rules are established all because of one or two people who lack presence of mind (ie -free roaming snakes in the house, anthropormorphizing wild animals :colbert: ).

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I agree. The limit for snakes here is 8' and the limit for lizards is 5'.
Its wierd though, We can legally keep BCI which if fed very heavily can reach 8'+

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

that het anthrax is one mean looking snake

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Heh...you should see Anthrax himself! :devilish:

for those who havent...

http://www.newenglandreptile.com/retic_axanthic.html

http://www.newenglandreptile.com/retic_granite.html

http://www.newenglandreptile.com/ava...&cat=25&page=1

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Super awesome snakes.. I am digging the albino.. those eyes are killer!

Retic's are such beautiful snakes I wish they werent illegal here.

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Originally Posted by Dr Satan

there is actually a slight physiological advantage to being big if your poikilothermic...

surface to volume ratio is larger, therefore less metabolic energy is lost from the body into the environment - that means bigger meals, less often.

life (in biological terms) is all about conserving energy, in a energy draining world. :2cent:

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Your right about large surface-to-volume ratio being favorable for poikilotherms (cold-blooded animals)

But........

The larger an organism, the more the surface area-to-volume ratio decreases. This is because volume increases much faster than surface area. Volume increases by the cube while surface area increases by the square. Try it out with a series of boxes or cubes to see what I mean.

For poikilothermic animals, surface area is the amount of heat capturing surface one has while volume is the amount of body that needs warmed up. As a snake increases in overall size, the amount of of heat-capturing surface you have per unit body decreases.

What this mean is that it is much harder for a larger poikilotherm to warm its internal body core than a smaller poikilotherm of the same shape.

This is why you don't see really big snakes being native to North America. It is simply to cold here for these big snakes to survive.

Awesome pics though.....

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

Your right about large surface-to-volume ratio being favorable for poikilotherms (cold-blooded animals)

But........

The larger an organism, the more the surface area-to-volume ratio decreases. This is because volume increases much faster than surface area. Volume increases by the cube while surface area increases by the square. Try it out with a series of boxes or cubes to see what I mean.

For poikilothermic animals, surface area is the amount of heat capturing surface one has while volume is the amount of body that needs warmed up. As a snake increases in overall size, the amount of of heat-capturing surface you have per unit body decreases.

What this mean is that it is much harder for a larger poikilotherm to warm its internal body core than a smaller poikilotherm of the same shape.

This is why you don't see really big snakes being native to North America. It is simply to cold here for these big snakes to survive.

Awesome pics though.....

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your right - surface/volume... so the larger the volume the smaller the ratio... thanks for pointing that out... i was just saying that it is an advantageous for any organim (collection of tissue and cells) to be big... the less surface is exposed to the environment the better... its all about conservation of energy.

as far as heating up... i think that reptiles can raise their core temps pretty fast. much faster than they cool off as they can seek refuge and insulate themselves so they conserve heat.

... as far as why you dont see large reptiles in american temperate regions... maybe continental drift has more of an influence, as their are no living or fossil representatives of native pythons to either north or south america... i think that clade branched out after the continents drifted apart.

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oh ya... another thing that comes to mind...

the laws of energy conservation, the surface to volume ratio, and their relation to biomass is even more apperant in mammals... prime example is the large mammals that inhabited the north american continent in the Pleistocene era (1.8 million to ~10,000 years ago)... land sloths, mammoths, and giant elk all had to survive on little more than grass and tree bark.

Thermal biology and metabolism is a complicated subject...

but in general

Large body size (i.e. low surface to volume ratio) is favorable in endotherms like warm blooded mammals because their surface area serves primarily as a means to lose the heat that they generate internally.

In ectotherms (poikilotherm) they use their body surfaces to capture heat during the day, then they use behavioral mechanisms to avoid losing that heat to their large surface areas to volume ratios.

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

Thermal biology and metabolism is a complicated subject...

but in general

Large body size (i.e. low surface to volume ratio) is favorable in endotherms like warm blooded mammals because their surface area serves primarily as a means to lose the heat that they generate internally.

In ectotherms (poikilotherm) they use their body surfaces to capture heat during the day, then they use behavioral mechanisms to avoid losing that heat to their large surface areas to volume ratios.

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thats what the research shows... some people believe this is why dinosaurs got so big.

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Originally Posted by Dr Satan

thats what the research shows... some people believe this is why dinosaurs got so big.

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Yes it called Inertial Homeothermy or Gigantothermy. But again I don not think this is not likely to happen in snakes because of their elongated body plan.

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

Yes it called Inertial Homeothermy or Gigantothermy. But again I don't think this is likely to happen in snakes because of their elongated body plan.

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^that's how it should read.

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

Yes it called Inertial Homeothermy or Gigantothermy. But again I don not think this is not likely to happen in snakes because of their elongated body plan.

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very true!! thanks for our input!

were you a zoology major? you are very hip with the ideas! :)

Molecular Biology, but I love ecological topics with physics and math in them.

As a bio teacher, I like to incorporate math and physics into my lessons.

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

Molecular Biology, but I love ecological topics with physics and math in them.

As a bio teacher, I like to incorporate math and physics into my lessons.

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thats awsome!!! i have a freind who is doing biotech... i am an undergrad majoring in zoology... i plan on going to MSU (montana state) or humbolt state for grad school - thinking of either focusing on birds of prey or plethodontids, there are populations of arboreal salamanders in the redwood forest near humbolt state (cool huh?)... also, the dept of ecology at MSU is one of the best too... they are only 90 miles from yellowstone national park.

in the next year i am finishing up with mammology, ornithology, freshwater invert zoology, multivar stats, linear algebra... and some independent projects on plethodontid physiology.

nice bumping into you man!!

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Originally Posted by Dr Satan

thats awsome!!! i have a freind who is doing biotech... i am an undergrad majoring in zoology... i plan on going to MSU (montana state) or humbolt state for grad school - thinking of either focusing on birds of prey or plethodontids, there are populations of arboreal salamanders in the redwood forest near humbolt state (cool huh?)... also, the dept of ecology at MSU is one of the best too... they are only 90 miles from yellowstone national park.

in the next year i am finishing up with mammology, ornithology, freshwater invert zoology, multivar stats, linear algebra... and some independent projects on plethodontid physiology.

nice bumping into you man!!

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MSU is a great school overall........they have very good science education programs too....Yellowstone is an awesome park, I've only been there once for three days and it wasnt near enough time.

Good luck with everything....Mike

I love looking at some of the retic's out there. I'll never keep one of the giants, maybe someday I can get my hands on one of the superdwarf island forms in the future.

that lav. albino is absolutley beautiful. I wish i had a place to keep a Retic, they are just too big for me too keep :(

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that lav. albino is absolutley beautiful. I wish i had a place to keep a Retic, they are just too big for me too keep :(

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i have a spare bedroom i keep all mine in..

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