Love Retics

[LouB747]

I've been lucky enough to find 3 retics in the wild. One was 12 to 14 feet. I managed to get some pretty good underwater video of this smaller one. He was a more manageable 6 to 7 feet.

http://youtu.be/65p0CB8HFQc

Lou

[Herpo]

Love the patterns! Gorgeous creatures, but they make a hell of a mess with the feces don't they?

[LouB747]

I've never kept one so don't know. But just based on their size I'm guessing that would be the case!

[dave himself]

Nice video mate :)

[bigsnakegirl785]

Love the patterns! Gorgeous creatures, but they make a hell of a mess with the feces don't they?

Depends on the individual it seems. Some adults like to paint with their feces, some just make a giant pile you gotta shovel out.

As an owner of one (albeit a very young one), it's the pee you have to worry more about. They pee multiple times a week, and make a decent-sized pool of it, too. My retic alone goes through an entire paper towel roll every couple of weeks, and I only give her 6-9 squares at a time (2-3 squares and 3 sheets of those). As long as they don't smear their poo, they don't make much of a mess of that.

[Herpo]

Shovel out! Oy vay...

[jpsteele80]

Love the patterns! Gorgeous creatures, but they make a hell of a mess with the feces don't they?

LOL ill send you a pic of what my 16 foot male does after a 10lb rabbit, its not something i look forward to cleaning thats for sure

[LouB747]

Wow, 16 foot. That's crazy.

Here's another video that I took that has a retic in it. Found in a tree around midnight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTaLG90IO10

[LouB747]

And this video has the largest one I've seen. I say 10 to 12 foot in the video, but comparing sizes of the surroundings afterward, I estimate it to be at least 14 feet. While I've seen large pythons in pet stores, seeing something like this in the wild is unreal.

It's a long video, and youtube deleted some of the music I used. Anyways, skip to 28 mins to see the retic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXgifwAaGX4

[LouB747]

Here's a crappy pic of the beast.

[KSTAR]

Nice stuff!!