Considering getting lavender albino reticulated Python

[Wish]

This is my Male Lavender Retic. He is a mainland and just about 6 feet, & 10 months old. I've fed this guy 1 weaned rat every 6 days till he was about 5 months. Now he gets 1 large rat a week.

[Wish]

/\I'm sorry.... About his fourth month, I upped it to 2 weaned rats every 6th day. Then 1 large a week.

[Suprakeith]

This is my Male Lavender Retic. He is a mainland and just about 6 feet, & 10 months old. I've fed this guy 1 weaned rat every 6 days till he was about 5 months. Now he gets 1 large rat a week.

He looks really stunning, it's defiantly the morph I want as think the colours are amazing

[redshepherd]

Thank you that's very helpful and this plane is trusted breeder that's specialists in boas and Pythons and has customers from around world that order snakes from him. I will only purchase a snake that I know the history and trust the place, plus like to do as much research as possible before finally purchase the snake as don't want it getting to big and misses being unsure and have to get rid of snake after few years

I'm wondering who the breeder is? Does he/she have a website I can check out?

[Yodawagon]

Also, where are you from? That might impact what's available to you.

[Suprakeith]

The breeder is Peter-rice-reptiles and I am based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England

[Yodawagon]

There's a lot of dwarf and super dwarf blood over there. Have you checked uk exotics?

[Suprakeith]

Thst could benefit me getting the snake and size want and no I haven't yet but will have look at uk exotics

[Ax01]

Ok brief run down. . . Feel free to Direct Message me for specifics when needed.

First generation crosses into superdwarf (Kalatoa F1) from crossing a wild kalaota to a mainland anything will result in a male that has potential to grow almost as large as a mainland. I have a 50% F1 MALE that is over 10'.

To get albino into dwarf, a lot of work goes into it, and if its cheap its likely a lower % cross (think around 25% is pretty common). So at the quickest rate, you can cross a wild caught jampea to a Lav albino. This makes 50% Jampea F1 (my 50% Jampea F1 male is 9' roughly, I have not measured him lately he turned 3 this past feb.). OK take siblings, and back cross them. Now you have 50% Dwarf F2 albinos and poss hets. These you could say are dwarf albinos. Do people do this though? Well, Travis kubes did and produced excellent animals. Unfortunately, what most do is take the F1 50% hets and cross them back into Mainland albinos so they are able to guarantee their hets and produce more visuals. However, some folks still refer to these as dwarf even though their lines are now only 25% Dwarf (still grow to mainland potential). Tracking this stuff is a huge part of what helps us understand sizing potential for new homes and owners. Without knowing how many generations went into it, we don't truly know what to expect, but in general always prepare for the worst (best) outcomes; big snakes.

Male mainland retics can breed at 7-8' and remain at this size their entire life. My 25% Selayer albino male het stripe is roughly 8' and is 4 years old and has been fully grown for a couple years now and fed on XXXL rats weekly.

Buy from trusted breeders, people who can give you the intimate details of their lines, and you're generally going to be OK to assume its growth potential. Feed it like its a mainland though and you'll still get a larger snake (or obese). The key to remember about dwarf and super dwarf retics is that their genetics have been refined for smaller lines due to their lack of resource availability on the islands in which they originate. Baring that in mind, if they are exposed to large quantities of food, it seems growth potential is still there. Many 50% SD females that are first generations are still breaching the 12' mark (Bob Clark has many like this he uses in his super dwarf offspring). It's still a lot smaller and easier to deal with thanks to girth. But still bigger than most people anticipate.

Hope this helps.

thanks, this is great info. is Travis Kubes still breeding? his FB page hasn't been updated in over a year and his website is down.


Edit: also quick question - for Albino Retics. are they more orange when young and yellow out as they mature? even when they yellow, the colors are really vibrant. really cool!

[Yodawagon]

Travis kubes is out of the hobby.