Python Reticulatus Wallace Progression!

[Gio]

I fed him the day before his birthday. I opened his cage last night and he had a go at me.

Good thing I have no complacency with him or I’d have taken a bite.

The retic feeding reesponse lasts a couple of days.

No joke, it’s real and they have a long strike range.

[jmcrook]

I fed him the day before his birthday. I opened his cage last night and he had a go at me.

Good thing I have no complacency with him or I’d have taken a bite.

The retic feeding reesponse lasts a couple of days.

No joke, it’s real and they have a long strike range.

Yep!!
Phyllis and Gerald are both on high alert for a good two days after feeding. Had a long missed lunge from Gerald a couple weeks ago. Came a good 2’ out of the cage. Gloriousness the 40” feeding tongs are! Hahah


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[Sauzo]

Haha, Caesar is usually in a food coma for a couple days after eating. Good thing i learned is he can go about 2 weeks now without food and doesnt push like before. He will wreck stuff though but if i open the door and give him some furious petting, he clams down and usually will just lay there with his head on the litter dam. Although a few times he will wait until he thinks i am not watching and try and slide down the stack to the floor haha.

Regardless of the food coma or not, i usually never mess with Caesar or any of the snakes for at least 2-3 days after eating. And i agree, thank god for 40+ inch feeding tongs haha.

[Gio]

Yep!!
Phyllis and Gerald are both on high alert for a good two days after feeding. Had a long missed lunge from Gerald a couple weeks ago. Came a good 2’ out of the cage. Gloriousness the 40” feeding tongs are! Hahah


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Yes,,
Such a different feeding experience.

These retics actually make it difficult. They know when it’s time 30 minutes before it’s time.

My other snakes are certainly aware but they let me open the cage. I have to trick Wallace with one door and quickly open another to get the tongs in with the food.

There’s no wiggling or taunting. The door opens and WHAMMO.

[Sauzo]

Hahaha exactly. I do that with all my snakes except the little ones. Vicky and Rosey both have at times shot out the door. Usually it is Vicky. She is kind of psycho around food.

I've had Rango, Louie and Gina all shoot out at least once too but like i said, they are too small right now to reach out far enough to get me as i stand to the side of the opening door lol.

And yup, there is no need to wiggle anything. I just slap the food on Caesars butt and he spins around and slams it.

[Gio]

I do like the predictability.

My boa is like a croc or gator. He is different than Wallace. He will just sit there usually perched. Sometimes he hits right away. Other times he waits and just when I think he’s not interested or paying attention he hits.

[Gio]

I purchased Wallace from Kris at Vital in September of 2016, Sauzo got his boy, Caesar just a bit after I received Wallace.

I looked on the website and was surprised to see this. Not only today but yesterday and prior to the message I noticed the stock for sale had been dwindling to just larger breeder snakes.

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I'm not a Facebook member but was able to look on my wife's account and noticed they have no new postings except for a few monitors that were posted for sale in April of this year.

Does anybody know if they are out of the reptile business?

I know Kris was working on a bison farm right when I was purchasing Wallace, and I'm curious if that is what he's doing full time now.

I'm in interested to know if anybody has ordered from Vital or had contact with them recently.

They were a reputable retic outfit and I'd be sad to see them out of the bizz.

[Sauzo]

Yeah i think he quit snakes for a while or possibly for good. I talked to him about a SD ultra but he told me he was done with snakes for now and is concentrating his efforts on his bison ranch.

[Gio]

Yeah i think he quit snakes for a while or possibly for good. I talked to him about a SD ultra but he told me he was done with snakes for now and is concentrating his efforts on his bison ranch.

Hmmm,

Well that's too bad but I see it happen a lot with breeders and keepers alike.

There are not many long time breeders in the retic world.

Depending on the locale, they get large to very large, not many keepers have them for long, long periods either.

Kris did an exceptional job with the species and I'm happy to have purchased from him.

[Sauzo]

Hmmm,

Well that's too bad but I see it happen a lot with breeders and keepers alike.

There are not many long time breeders in the retic world.

Depending on the locale, they get large to very large, not many keepers have them for long, long periods either.

Kris did an exceptional job with the species and I'm happy to have purchased from him.

I'm actually surprised to tell you the truth. While retics are large, they require no where near the space large monitors do. And i think Kris was breeding water monitors. They get big. I had a Nile Monitor about 30 years ago which i got as a hatchling from a local breeder. He was the most laid back lizard i have seen except when around one particular buddy of mine which he REALLY hated and took a shot at him with his tail. He was about 5 feet at the time and lucky for my buddy, he was quick. The tail put a nice dent/break in the sheet rock wall lol. I ended up having to re home him as he grew beyond my financial abilities being i was an 18 year old kid living on his own in an apartment along with a few geckos, pacman frog and a BP lol. I miss him though and still think about him. He was hands down my favorite pet especially since i got him as a little tiny hatchling who would chase crickets around the cage lol.