Anthrax x Dwarf/Super Dwarf Retics? - Help Me Decide On A Pair?

[Sauzo]

Here's a current photo of my retic. Her name is Lucy, she is a female and 50% Jampea (dwarf) and 50% mainland. She is just shy of 2 years old now and probably close to 30 pounds. I put a sharpie marker in the photo for a size comparison so you can get an idea of how big she is. She is a 'White Phase' (Clark) albino. The albino is associated with the purple and lavender albino. The Purple phase has two copies of the gene, the Lavender has one and the white phase has zero. It's kind of a separate but linked gene. So if you bred a purple albino with a normal you would get one copy of the albino gene and one copy of the purple gene, neither would be visual. If you bred a lavender albino with a normal you would get one copy of the albino gene (het) and a 50% chance of getting one copy of the purple gene.

When she was young I fed her pretty heavily and she probably grew twice as fast as others I have seen. Now that she is pretty much slowed down growing I feed her a large or jumbo rat once every 2-3 weeks and she is satisfied.

Also keep in mind that the more Mainland blood in the snake the more mellow and easy going it is. Super Dwarf makes them a bit skittish and aggressive by nature. You can work with them to get it out of their system but it comes naturally with Mainland blood. Also keep in mind that if you have a pure super dwarf you won't have any morphs at all. All of the color / pattern morphs come from crossing with Mainland. To reduce the % mainland you have to breed back to super dwarf. So to get this snake they probably bred a pure Jampea to an albino Mainland. Then bred the offspring together to get the visual albino.

To correct a couple things, the only snake that is 'aggressive' is a black mamba. Snakes are defensive. SD retics as well as dwarf retics can be more skittish and on the go than mainlands but this depends on how the snake was raised.

Also super dwarf does have a single naturally occurring morph. It's anery.

And from what i have been told, tiger gene tends to make bigger retics and more mellow retics. The tiger gene also changes the patterns a lot. Here is Caesar who is also a white albino but he's also tiger het snow and super dwarf/dwarf and you can see how different he looks even though both are white albinos but one with tiger and one without.