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

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Actually if you have exhausted all other options it is a good idea. Some, but not all do better in a smaller cage. Females may react to another male, but it’s usually the males that react to pheromones given off by the female. Maybe your girl is a boy and doesn’t like Gerald.

Hard to say at this point but if you don’t have anything else to try, try a smaller cage and see if it helps. Maybe it will maybe it won’t. And as far as food, there is no wild retic that eats constantly they just don’t. I think you are good on the feeding end.

I agree that retics dont eat that much in the wild but I am pretty sure they are constantly on the hunt for food or at least active. I mean Jacob can try the T8, cant hurt but i really dont think it will change things. Phyllis sounds like a girl version of a Caesar and i can tell you, when i put Caesar in a T8 with a shelf, he was NOT happy with that and sat at the front trying to shove his face down between the litter dam and sliding doors and even on the sides and top. Not to mention, Caesar is only 8 feet and he couldnt even stretch out or basically turn around. I pictured it like me being shoved in a closet. Would suck lol. Phyllis is pushing 10 feet i think. She would be over 2 times as long as a T8, not to mention, she wouldnt even really be able to even raise her head lol. T8s are pretty freakin small. Even my 4.5 foot BP looked huge in one haha. To give you an idea, their inside height is only like 10.5 inches or so.

Count your blessings that Wallace isnt that foody or pushy. I know what Jacob is going through as Caesar was like that for about a year lol. He still pushes some when it comes close to food day but like i said, in his case, i think it was wanting to breed as he pushes probably a 1/4 or even less than what he did a couple months ago.

I also think i might have been underfeeding him as i just checked him last night by wrapping my hand around his mid section and he is easily as thick as a coke can. The jumbo rats i've been feeding him or at least jumbo by pet shop standards(weighs around 350 grams) barely even make a dent in him. I think i am going to have to switch him to rabbits as his staple. I dont want to do guinea pigs as the staple as they tend to be fatty.

But hey, might as well try everything. I just figured it was easier and quicker to just take Gerald's T8 and move it into a different room first.

I'm kind of surprised Gerald hasnt been pushing too.

Last feeding I gave Rainbow two XL rats and that was after she went 7 days between feedings (the longest time I have made her go between feedings). Hope she can make it to 10 or more this time before she turns her cage upside down looking for food. She is a pooping and peeing machine. I am just happy she is calm and happy.

Does your retic poop or pee almost every time you handle them? Rainbow started doing this. 10 to 15 min into being handled she poops or pees. Monty does as well about 5 or so minuets into being handles. I think moving gets their body working to empty out so they can be more active. Just a theory though.

Caesar has only even pooped outside the cage once and that was on the floor when i let him wander. He has only pissed outside the cage once too and that was directly on my bare foot which i think he planned despite snakes not thinking like that. Inside his cage he pisses a lot though. Mostly just little 'markings' here and there but every once in awhile, i find a huge urate. This past 2 days, he dropped 2 huge urates in 2 days but he also ate a 2XL guinea pig.

And like Jacob said, welcome to the world of retics. They poop and piss all the time....and eat all the time.......and sometimes push and destroy stuff.