Anyone Able to Provide ....

[Vesta]

Information on Tiger Retics?

[Patrick Long]

Co-dom.


Re ask your question, with a more specific desired results

[Vesta]

I'm sorry, I think it was specific enough. I want to know anything about the Tiger Retic.

How long it gets, what it needs, attitude... etc. I think anyone able to provide information on tiger retics was specific enough, or better yet broad enough.

But either way. How long do that get, what is needed, attitude, any specific cares it needs, etc?

[Patrick Long]

It is exactly the same as a regular Retic, just a morph.

Is a piebald any different than a normal?

[Vesta]

It is exactly the same as a regular Retic, just a morph.

Is a piebald any different than a normal?

I don't know anything about Retic, which is obviously why I'm asking.

[John Marker]

http://www.ball-pythons.net/modules/...ewarticle&id=9

Here you go. I was able to find out the info you wanted on this very site. It is in the caresheet section. In plain view on the home page.

Next time you might want to look around a little bit before you ask a question.

John

[Vesta]

I didn't think there was a caresheet, I must of passed over it and it was a quick thing anyway, because a store near me has a really nice specimen and was thinking about getting one.

Thanks John.

[aaramire]

I am sorry but I think if you need to be asking these type of basic questions about this animal then it is not the right one for you. Reticulated pythons get very large, I think the largest known specimen is around 32 feet. Granted, the tiger morphs have been known to stay smaller, but this is still a dangerous animal, even at 10-14 feet. In fact, there was a lovely woman named Amanda Black who was killed by her ten foot tiger retic just last year when she was trying to medicate him. They have very very aggressive feeding responses, and require a fairly high humidity. They have specific caging requirements as well, since they are strong and able to easily escape from less secure caging. These animals should be respected and it take a great deal of time to learn how to handle them properly, in fact I know several keepers who recommend, to prospective keepers, a sort of apprenticeship with a very experienced giant keeper, for a set amount of time, before even considering spending money on a retic, much like a person looking to get into keeping venemous snakes would do.

I apologize if I am assuming too much in my reading of this thread, but to me it seems like you have a long way to go before you are ready to own a giant.

[Skiploder]

I'm sorry, I think it was specific enough. I want to know anything about the Tiger Retic.

How long it gets, what it needs, attitude... etc. I think anyone able to provide information on tiger retics was specific enough, or better yet broad enough.

But either way. How long do that get, what is needed, attitude, any specific cares it needs, etc?

All those questions can be answered via a simple Google search..................

http://www.google.com/search?source=...oq=&aqi=g4g-m4

[mainbutter]

I'm sorry, I think it was specific enough. I want to know anything about the Tiger Retic.

How long it gets, what it needs, attitude... Etc. I think anyone able to provide information on tiger retics was specific enough, or better yet broad enough.

But either way. How long do that get, what is needed, attitude, any specific cares it needs, etc?

The "tiger" gene in retics is a co-dom mutation.

There are various localities of retics, some are of different sizes, and even look a little different than mainland retics.

"Normal" retics, the most common in the pet trade, are big. They are giants, plain and simple. The tiger morph was originally found in regular full-sized retics if I understand things correctly.

Some people have crossed this morph into various "dwarf" retics (note that "dwarf" may still imply a giant animal, just not one with a 24+ foot potential) and "super dwarf" retics (and actually I don't know for sure if the tiger morph has been crossed into super dwarves), but I don't know anything about the full size potential of these locality hybrids.

Most likely any tiger retic or super tiger retic you find will have the potential to get HUGE.

As far as care and all that, any retic caresheet will work. Please keep in mind that keeping giants is not something to take lightly. The people who don't know what they are getting into but want that pretty retic they've seen pictures ovf are detrimental to the entire reptile hobby, and fuel anti-exotics lawmakers arguments.