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Originally Posted by tommymac
Actualy they are doing a lot with the jampea/dwarf retics now. the females will bareley hit 15 feet and the males are all under 10. they also have prety good temperaments too. I believe there are guys breeding tiger and super tigers with the jampeas and are working albinos in too. theres going to be a lot of intresting morphs out in the next few years and the prices are comming down too.
Tom
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I know I've seen pics of the jampea/dwarf retics but for the life of me, I cannot remember what they look like. I'll have to go look them up again.
The first time I ever saw a retic was in a little place just north of San Antonio, Tx. The guy who owned her let me handle her to prove how docile she was, especially for a retic. He told me she's been handled constantly since she was a hatchling and it showed. She was very docile...allowing me to do whatever to her, including opening her mouth without putting up too much of a fuss. The only thing I didn't like was her size, but that was mainly because she was so heavy and long, I could not hold all of her. She was huge! Not quite as thick as a burm but had much more length than any burm I have seen. But she was truly gentle.
A friend of mine here who's a reptile lover doesn't like any retic because of their known aggressiveness. He believes that it's their instinctive nature & they're too new of a "pet" to have it bred out of them. So he believes that no matter how docile they appear, they'll turn on you. It's always an argument when we discuss reptiles.
I'd like to see where the new morphs are headed & how the pricing of them are going to be. I would like to have another snake, but I also have plans of touring in a few years too. If anything, Mini-Me would eventually become the owner of any possible pet. She's great with any animal & I know with her an animal would be well taken care of.