Super Dwarf Reticulated Python Care and Information

[dkatz4]

Good to hear. Yeah i'm not really holding my breath on the Hog Island as it sounds like its a mad rush for them when they go up for sale and I personally don't like rushing headlong into purchasing a pet i'm going to have for 20 years or more lol. As for Nick Mutton, I've been eyeballing his Jungles as I love the color of them and he actually lives fairly close to me kind of, basically on the other side of Washington lol. As for the retic, think the lavender albinos which are the ones I've been looking at from Vital Exotics are 37% SD and 31% dwarf so I'm going to guess the rest is mainland. I really don't want something that is going to bolt every chance it gets like a corn or other colubrid lol. I'm getting too old to be chasing down skinny fast snakes like when I was a kid. And something around 8' or so is fine. I just don't want a surprise of something that is 14' lol.

I've been eye-balling the same Vital snakes, started off thinking about a big BCC to go with my little central american BCI, but it seems like everyone who comes in contact with a retic falls in love with them so there must be something to it, right? I have a few nube questions, sorry for that, but i figure this thread has a lot of knowledgeable people on it. Regarding the 37/31 Vital retics (god, those albino lavenders are gorgeous) - what kind of size difference would you expect to see between a male and a female- both length and girth? Also, and this probably applies to most SD influence snakes, i know the rate of feeding has a huge effect on the rate of growth, but at what age do they stop growing (or slow down, anyway)? I'm more familiar with boas, so i see a 3 year old boa and expect to see a lot of growth over the following 3 or 4 years, what's it like for retics?

EDIT: forgot to say thank you to everyone for all the great info, i'd be lost without you. Special thanks to Cody for this thread and all the great YT vids (but how about some update, man? i've watched the three long ones 100 times now)