Kalatoa 100% Pure SD Retic Progression (Pic heavy...)

[Gio]

Her highness shed last night and looks incredible. Gave me an unbroken 8'+ shed!



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She looks sensational!

You know I prefer a natural, Mother Nature color scheme. While Wallace is a morph technically, his pattern is a "natural morph" pattern. I believe Carl Herman (RIP) who never lived too far from me acquired the first US tiger here in the US as a wild caught animal, I could be off target there but I believe that is accurate. Wallace would easily survive if released back into the environment reticulated pythons come from.

Anyhow, you have a wonderful and very beautiful girl there!

[jmcrook]

Phyllis shed today and her face looks pretty much back to normal as far as I can tell. She also slammed her first 400gram jumbo rat no problem. She's getting quite big. Might be over 7' at this point and probably 7ish pounds.


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[Sauzo]

Nice. Good that her face is ok. Yeah Caesar eats 300g rats.

So i ended up going back to aspen lol. Seems my snakes dont like the Reptichips. When on it, Caesar just sits curled up. Rosey will push to get out. Rango and Gina sit in their hides curled up too. Vicky just sits in the back. When back on their aspen, Caesar will stretch out and relax. Same with Rosey. Gina and Rango will sit hanging out of their hides just relaxing. And Vicky will burrow in the aspen and stretch out. Figured they would like the ReptiChips but guess not lol. Its ok though as i still get around 70ish humidity with just misting the aspen once or twice a week and it also smells much better and easier to spot poops and pisses.

[jmcrook]

Huh, all 3 of my snakes seem to like the reptichip just fine. I actually like the smell lol. Thinking about trying the cypress mulch from lowes as it's way freaking cheaper than reptichip and still holds decent humidity. I just really like how well reptichip absorbs piss and eliminates a lot of odor while keeping pretty consistent humidity levels for me


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[Sauzo]

Lol i must be doing something wrong. It smells good for a few days, then it starts to smell kind of like mildew or dirt. But yeah, its weird that none of my snakes seem to like it. Dottie is the only one who seems indifferent to it but everyone else just doesnt seem to like to stretch out on it. It's like they want the least amount of their body touching it haha.

But the weirdest part is like i said, it smells ok, almost kind of like a raisin smell for a few days. Then it gets thats musky/mildew/dirt smell. But then again my snakes are weird. When caesar pushes, if i just leave a door open, he will come over to the open door and camp it in front of it and just relax and be quiet. Same with Rosey. Here's Rosey earlier tonight. She was being a terror in her cage so i slid a door open and she has been relaxing since hahaha. My snakes are such weirdos.

[Reinz]

Glad to see that pretty girl's face is ok.

She sure doesn't seem to be having difficulty sliding that Jumbo down!

[jmcrook]

I think it might be time for a bigger water bowl... she's only had this one for maybe 7 months?! Jeez...
To be fair, she did just pound a 450gram rat and is about 115% of her normal mass in the bowl right now. I think 3-400 gram rats are the best size window for the time being. Got this beastly rodent down fine but it's about the biggest prey size I'm comfortable giving her right now. I'm sure she'll be hungry again by the end of the week haha


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[jmcrook]

Had Phyllis out in the front yard today to stretch out and do some bathroom business after the cleaned her cage and she got to do a little impromptu snake education for some of the neighbors. She met I think 6-7 new people, was incredibly well behaved and everyone that saw her thought she was incredible. She's met a few of the neighbors before but not this many over the course of an hour and she couldn't have been a better ambassador for typically non snake people. Her size definitely captivates people quickly and then folks always comment on her pattern and coloration, followed by the obligatory "does she bite?!" question haha. I of course was happy to help educate all of her visitors as to her background, geographic origins, age, eating habits, and help dispel some of the usual snake myths... "is she mean? Does she bite?!"-no, snakes are not mean. They are sometimes scared and/or defensive but not mean. A couple folks petted her briefly and were quite intrigued to find that snakes are actually rather soft and smooth, not slimy lol.

Here she is right before she took a giant piss all over the yard and my shorts haha.


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[Gio]

Had Phyllis out in the front yard today to stretch out and do some bathroom business after the cleaned her cage and she got to do a little impromptu snake education for some of the neighbors. She met I think 6-7 new people, was incredibly well behaved and everyone that saw her thought she was incredible. She's met a few of the neighbors before but not this many over the course of an hour and she couldn't have been a better ambassador for typically non snake people. Her size definitely captivates people quickly and then folks always comment on her pattern and coloration, followed by the obligatory "does she bite?!" question haha. I of course was happy to help educate all of her visitors as to her background, geographic origins, age, eating habits, and help dispel some of the usual snake myths... "is she mean? Does she bite?!"-no, snakes are not mean. They are sometimes scared and/or defensive but not mean. A couple folks petted her briefly and were quite intrigued to find that snakes are actually rather soft and smooth, not slimy lol.

Here she is right before she took a giant piss all over the yard and my shorts haha.


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Whoa you guys look great. She looks fantastic and her size is damn near perfect. She could easily put on another 2 feet and be no problem to handle.

You scored with that one sir!

[Sauzo]

Had Phyllis out in the front yard today to stretch out and do some bathroom business after the cleaned her cage and she got to do a little impromptu snake education for some of the neighbors. She met I think 6-7 new people, was incredibly well behaved and everyone that saw her thought she was incredible. She's met a few of the neighbors before but not this many over the course of an hour and she couldn't have been a better ambassador for typically non snake people. Her size definitely captivates people quickly and then folks always comment on her pattern and coloration, followed by the obligatory "does she bite?!" question haha. I of course was happy to help educate all of her visitors as to her background, geographic origins, age, eating habits, and help dispel some of the usual snake myths... "is she mean? Does she bite?!"-no, snakes are not mean. They are sometimes scared and/or defensive but not mean. A couple folks petted her briefly and were quite intrigued to find that snakes are actually rather soft and smooth, not slimy lol.

Here she is right before she took a giant piss all over the yard and my shorts haha.


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She looks almost like Caesar except the color. I'm going have to get a pic of Caesar on the floor inside. Not sure i want to chance him outside yet and he seems kind of scared of being outside. Imagine that, a little 2' boa loves to go outside and a 7' retic is kind of scared of the outside lol.

She looks good. I like how she blends in with the ground color. Kind of cool.