Might be trading Monty......

[Sauzo]

This issue reminded me of a Youtube channel I follow for Burms.....Retics aren't my thing, but drthik1 (a Youtube user who breeds and owns numerous Retics-I actually think CALMpythons knows him personally) claims that if you're going to get one for pet purposes a female is the better one to have due to a more calm temperament, especially when they reach mating size. He basically says to just deal with the size difference in exchange for the temperament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m6B-nBfslY

Regardless though, I'm a large constrictor kind of guy so I'd hold on to the Retic and just work with him every day....but that's just me. Nothing against bloods.

Caesar is a breeding age male retic and he is a giant lush. Guy has never took a shot at me. Worst he does is shove my hand away if he wants to be left alone and if that doesnt work, he just wanders to the other side of the cage lol. When he wanted a girlfriend, his thing though was to push furiously all over the door. I personally thing a lot has to do with how you 'raise' the snake as well as it's demenor as a baby. Caesar was always a mellow baby except food time. Even my GTPs are mellow and i can put them down in my open hand on their perch and they will crawl off onto my hand to explore.

And to Skyriver, my vote goes to keeping the retic. A Blood Python reminds me of a BP aka pet rock......but what do i know, i got boas that are pet rocks for the most part as well as pet rocks on a stick aka GTPs lol.