10 Pound Albino Retic Photo Shoot!

[cchardwick]

Just did a photo shoot with my 50% Jampea dwarf albino (Clarke white phase) reticulated python, her name is Lucy! Enjoy!

[ShaneSilva]

Gorgeous! I'm a sucker for retics

[Snoopyslim]

Great shots she clearly makes you happy =)!

[Reinz]

I sure love Lucy, gorgeous. She looks like fun.

How long, 8-9 ft?

[Albert Clark]

Amazing looking animal! Grats.

[cchardwick]

Yes, she does make me happy LOL. She is a great snake, no aggression at all. She eats large rats now, thinking about moving up to XL. I tried to give her a left over adult mouse the other day and she just looked at me like, 'your kidding, right?' LOLOLOL. I'm actually going to breed her in a few years to my super dwarf purple albino male, should get some really cool lavender babies.

It's funny, I had a few snakes that I was a little intimidated of, but since Lucy has gotten so large I look at my other snakes and can't believe that I had any fear of them at all. Somehow she has helped me get rid of all my fears and intimidation of smaller snakes, even if they are super aggressive. I guess I realized that compared to Lucy what can they really do to me, bite my pinky finger? LOL

To give you an idea of size I'm 6' 4" tall, so this snake would look even bigger if someone smaller were to handle it. We had her on a 6 foot folding table and she was not straight and hanging off of both ends, I'd say she is between 7-8 feet long right now.

[Zincubus]

That's a beautiful looking creature and the bonus is her temperament .

She would look absolutely amazing in a display viv !!

[Tigerhawk]

You are not helping me one little bit. I have been trying to talk myself out of getting a Retic. Then you go and post these pictures of yours. You look like you are having a ball. Thanks a lot dude. Now I'm back to wanting one again, By the way your Retic looks great. Post more pictures.

[cchardwick]

You are not helping me one little bit. I have been trying to talk myself out of getting a Retic. Then you go and post these pictures of yours. You look like you are having a ball. Thanks a lot dude. Now I'm back to wanting one again, By the way your Retic looks great. Post more pictures.

If I were you I'd get a super dwarf + dwarf + mainland cross. That way you can dial in the size you want. I'm going to cross my purple albino male to her, so I'll end up with babies that are lavender albino and 18.75% super dwarf, 50% Jampea dwarf, and 31.25% mainland. Should be a little bigger than a boa but not as big as this 50% Jampea / 50% Mainland will get. I'm guessing the babies will be about as large as you would want to get for one person to handle comfortably. Of course I won't have babies for at least three years LOL. I'm pretty sure the final size will depend mainly on the percentage of Mainland blood, pure Mainland getting over 20 feet and up to 200+ pounds. I'm guessing this albino girl won't pass 70 pounds and maybe 12 feet or so... Of course a lot depends on how much you feed too, I tend to feed my snakes a lot since I raise my own rodents and have an abundant never ending supply!