Super Dwarf! I think it's gonna be my next purchase

[euphuistical]

It means filling out a questionaire a d submitting an application and all that lovely red tape, but I've always wanted a retic and a super dwarf is something I can safely handle on my own. And from what i've read I can keep one in a cb70 comfortably.

This has me super pumped. I just need some confirmation that a cb70 will be large enough for a male (or a female, this guy is a pet, but I may want to breed and in that case may want a feme) but as long as I can keep a male in one I am good to go.

I am really so pumped about this.

[mumps]

WTF is a cb70? Is it some kind of tub?

Retics are semi-arboreal snakes. You should NOT keep any retic in a tub. Period. That's my opinion.

Chris

[MPenn]

WTF is a cb70? Is it some kind of tub?

Retics are semi-arboreal snakes. You should NOT keep any retic in a tub. Period. That's my opinion.

Chris

Dude, where are you getting your info?

A super dwarf can be housed in a CB-70.

[euphuistical]

WTF is a cb70? Is it some kind of tub?

Retics are semi-arboreal snakes. You should NOT keep any retic in a tub. Period. That's my opinion.

Chris

Sigh. Almost every large retic I've seen has been kept in a tub or a cage without much vertical space at all.

A cb70 should be plenty roomy for a super SD, and if it is not ill find a cage that is proper for it. But the red tape is really irking me, 100 bucks a year coerced from me just to keep a snake some politician put on a list.

[Jyson]

For a male, a CB 70 MIGHT work. For adult SD retics they usually require a minimum tub size of 9 ½ in. H x 31 in. W x 39 in. L. I also noticed you live in Fl. in the state of FL. you need a license to own a retic regardless of the subspecies.

[euphuistical]

For a male, a CB 70 MIGHT work. For adult SD retics they usually require a minimum tub size of 9 ½ in. H x 31 in. W x 39 in. L. I also noticed you live in Fl. in the state of FL. you need a license to own a retic regardless of the subspecies.

Yeah I know about the damn regulations. Already been on the phone with the FWC about it.

[mumps]

If you are unhappy about living in a State where you need a license to keep a pet, perhaps you should move to one where they are totally forbidden. Then your $100 a year won't seem so bad...

Just because a lot of retics are kept in "low height" enclosures doesn't make it right. My last one rarely came to ground level.

Chris

[AjBalls]

Dude, where are you getting your info?

A super dwarf can be housed in a CB-70.

Where'd you get your information?

Sigh. Almost every large retic I've seen has been kept in a tub or a cage without much vertical space at all.

A cb70 should be plenty roomy for a super SD, and if it is not ill find a cage that is proper for it. But the red tape is really irking me, 100 bucks a year coerced from me just to keep a snake some politician put on a list.

Who says people are housing them how they should be housed compared to "what works". How many people intend on breeding the snakes they have in a "tub or a cage without much vertical space at all"? How many are housing them as strictly pets?

"Should be" sounds a lot like "what works". I have a friend with YEARLING SD retics and they crawl all over the CB-70 tub and he knows he needs to upgrade them. These SD retics are only about 3' long. Retics (no matter what type) are not ball pythons. They don't curl up in a corner and hide all day.

[Jyson]

Where'd you get your information?



Who says people are housing them how they should be housed compared to "what works". How many people intend on breeding the snakes they have in a "tub or a cage without much vertical space at all"? How many are housing them as strictly pets?

"Should be" sounds a lot like "what works". I have a friend with YEARLING SD retics and they crawl all over the CB-70 tub and he knows he needs to upgrade them. These SD retics are only about 3' long. Retics (no matter what type) are not ball pythons. They don't curl up in a corner and hide all day.

Regardless of if you are going breed them or are just keeping them as pets, they'll still require the same husbandry and tub/tank size.

And yes they do stay curled up, both of mine stay curled up a majority of the time(not all the time but for the most part.) A CB 70 for a 3 ft. SD Retic is too large which is why that one is moving around so much; they tend to do that when they are stress.

[mumps]

I'd like to know where you got your information.

Retics don't curl up and sit around all day. Snakes that DO curl up and sit around all day have figured out that they are in a tiny, uninteresting escape-proof box/tub/enclosure that is not worth checking out anymore. Even my balls are cruising their enclosures (not tubs) all night, and it's not because they're stressed, or hungry, or whatever else you folks think might make a ball go cruising. It's called options.

Anyhow, like I said: retics are semi-arboreal. I don't care what you see retics housed in; they do not belong in tubs or low-height enclosures.

Chris