Your thoughts on Dwarf and SD retics?

[Aedryan Methyus]

Hey! So I got this notification on my phone and thought I might as well elaborate on my experiences as I own a SUPER TINY super dwarf retic (picture below for seeing super tiny).

So, first things first, I have an adult corn, a juvenile Russian rat snake, and then I went on to a snake exposition and met two cool dudes from the UK, their company was named Ridgeway Exotics.
The reason I met them is because of all the snakes I saw (or should I say ball pythons, that was 90% of the show) I found the ONLY orange and purple snake. What!? I have never seen that before!
I started gathering information. She was a super dwarf they said, and I was skeptical about it. So he showed me pictures of the mother and wow was she tiny, I couldn't believe to be so lucky! They actually let me hold her for a bit because I was so curious how a reticulated python would behave.

She was sweet, a true sight to behold. I wasn't planning on getting a snake at all.. But this, I imagined, when was I ever going to see such a beauty like her again? I'll tell you, never, all the shows I went to after I haven't found a single one!

So I pondered and took a walk, actually hoping someone else would take her before I could because I was nervous as hell about their behaviour as some point in the future, I've seen some nasty videos..

My girlfriend convinced me to get her, so I walked back, got her, got all the required things at that show too, and I couldn't be happier I tell you! How I love this snake!

So, her behaviour.. She had a time where she was pissed off at everything. Striked the glass continously as someone walked by. I went on a forum to see how I could correct this and they advised tap training her. I've been doing so for half a year now and it's working out great. She calmed down because the hook tells her what's going to happen, very intelligent snakes I tell you!
She's super chill now and even my mother of 64 will hold her!

So now about her size right? I have high expectations that she's going to stay really, really small. She's almost a year old now and she's still really tiny, and I mean really tiny. She's about 60cm, or 2 feet. I've seen year old 81.5% super dwarfs that are bigger than my adult corn snake.... Her diet exists out of a fuzzy rat right now, every 1.5 to 2 weeks. (and that leaves a HUGE bulge! Sometimes I think she might burst but snakes can stretch so far!) I want to keep her small, as I'm not looking forward to feeding rabbits .

I thought about this and discussed about it as well, in the wild they don't find food for maybe weeks, snakes can go on for a really long time without feeding and they survive. Snakes will manage a lot!
Above all she's super healthy, all over the place (I put a wooden perch against the glass so she can climb, and sometimes actually sits like a morelia viridis lol) and just very well behaved. I can read her very well I'd like to think.

So that's about it. A lot more text than I imagined I would write but I hope this was helpful to see a sort of new owner talk about these kind of snakes.

I'll post a few pictures now, of her pattern, her size, and just some nice ones. (hope it's not too huge of size, I'm posting from my phone lol)

Meet Juno, the 75% super dwarf retic purple morph het for snow!

Thanks for sharing your story, Shevi. She really is a stunner! You never mentioned her locale and percentages. As I already mentioned, I received my first pair of 25% Kalatoas just yesterday. They will be 1 year old in April and May and are only eating rat pups. I am totally blown away by how tiny they are for 1 year old Retics! From what I can tell, my girl is probably even a tad smaller than yours! My male is probably about the same size. These creatures are just sooo insanely beautiful, beautiful, though! There is no doubt, who the new king and queen are in my snake room!