Pics of tics

[Pyrate81]

Even though it's the size of a corn snake this is much much worse. Super dwarf pure. Anery male. You have been warned.

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Normal destruction lol. . . this was just during a shed, so he was a little bit more backed up. But that's about the normal amount of fluids that come out of a retic.

Ya they get pretty bad. Here is my standard form answer pic lol:

I was pondering 1 SD Retic at some point in the future(yes just one). Maybe not so much now.

Here's what the room looks like at the moment! Decided to do an update pic of the set ups.

Room looks awesome.

[Mike41793]

I need a retic lol

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[BrandiR]

I need a retic lol

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That's what she said!

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[reptileexperts]

That's what she said!

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Zing.

I wrestled an anaconda for three days once ... Then I realized I was just .... never mind. . .

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[artgecko]

Nice looking setup. Do you have additional space to expand into as your tics mature (and need bigger cages)? Also, who are the cages by in the bottom right (the white ones)?

[reptileexperts]

Most of the tics are in their adult caging with the exception of a few. They are either in 6x2 or 4x2 visions (4x2 Visions are the ones on the right and the 6x2 are on the left.) Male retics do well in Vision 400, while female mainlands can live their entire life in a vision 632. Thankfully I only have one female mainland, the rest are dwarf / super dwarf and are in their lifetime caging :-)

[reptileexperts]

Couple from the tubs last night. The titanium took her first small rat. And the sunstripe is on mediums (sunstripe was just in the tub for holding)

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[artgecko]

Thanks for the info! For some reason, I always assumed that you had scads and scads of retics growing out (in the racks in your room pic), not sure why I thought your collection was all or nearly all retics *shrug*. Great looking sunstripe btw!

[zee-man]

So I assume by some of your pictures, the pics with clean paper towels are a rarity as opposed to a commonality?


I can deal with the poo, but the gallon of urine I think would be a bit much for me to handle... holy geez. I couldn't imagine that mess. Have you tried another substrate like aspen, does it absorb better?

[reptileexperts]

I switched to aspen to avoid cleaning up daily . . . but found out this led to deposits of unseen urine that ended up building up to the point that the room smelled like ammonia 24/7. I started to spot check the aspen twice daily, but when I led tours, this was out of the question since I'd leave them for 5-8 days and they'd have to self sustain a little better. This still worked nicer for when I had to leave them for a week, but the clean up after took hours and hours even with a shop vacuum. Paper is just so easy to spot check, quick to clean, and I get to use f10 on the entire enclosure when I clean it every other day or so. This ensures that there is zero issues with bacteria growth, ammonia smells, and so forth.

when I stopped thawing rabbits in water, the urine levels dropped significantly with the big girls. Now they only dump loads of urine maybe every other week, or just lighter amounts twice or so a week. The younger ones still get water thawed rats, but I'm trying to dry them to keep urine down.

I go through about 6 rolls of paper towels a week just in cleaning up after the retics and those are only used as liner in about 5 tubs, the rest are on unprinted newspaper.