What is the current status of reticulated pythons in the USA?

[GoingPostal]

Wasn't your retic shipped in from another state?

[reptileexperts]

Wasn't your retic shipped in from another state?

negligible. . . as long as the shipper was qualified to ship across state lines via the USARK agreement with the injunction, he's fine. NOW, should he need to move it across state lines again - that's where the issue will rise.

[Gio]

And you be could destroyed at the municipal level far easier than the federal level should your city/county decide to mandate what type/sizes of snakes are allowed in your area.

The boa constrictor business lost probably the world's greatest asset to locality boas because of local ordinances. Gus Rentfro is sadly out of the boa bizz just like that.

USARK is really one of the best things we have.

Research very carefully and also consider what breeding any type of snake will do for you and the hobby. Most everything is over saturated these days and you may get stuck with your whole clutch. Not an easy go if you have retics so keep that in mind.

[cchardwick]

Well I didn't actually plan on breeding her, but I did notice that a lot of big name breeders were breeding and selling retics and shipping them all over the country. It's odd that I can get one shipped to my house from one of these breeders but then I'm stuck with it in my state since I wasn't a USARK member pre ban. Now that I know the laws there's no way I'd breed my retic unless they change the laws to where I can ship out the babies. There's no way I'd be able to sell a whole clutch of retics locally, even ball pythons would be a hard sell in my state without being able to ship.

The main reason I bought a retic is to eat all the frozen thawed rodents that my ball pythons won't eat, so I can put them to use instead of throwing them away. Also needed something big to eat all of my retired breeder rats that are too big for my ball pythons. So far it's working great. And I also wanted a large snake, something big and impressive. I did a lot of research into housing, feeding and caring for a snake like this before I bought it, it was a well thought out purchase that I didn't take lightly. The thing that really pushed me to buy this snake is that with all the new laws and regulations we may someday find ourselves not being able to have a magnificent snake like this at all, this may be the only time a person can buy a snake like this, I'm thinking we may end up with a full ban on them someday, which would be really sad.

I'm not sure they would ever have local regulations against this snake in my local area (county) unless they banned them at a higher level. I live in the mountains away from the city in the middle of no where LOL.

I also have African Soft Fur Rats that I can't transport across state lines. That one is crazy too since my rats and mice produce faster than ASFs.

It seems like they should have an exception for super dwarfs that don't get that big....