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dannybgoode
04-06-17, 10:24 AM
Ok so I know I said my collection was done apart from a couple of small colubrids but then this came up.

As some of you may remember I've been mulling a dwarf retic for some time but I'm a stickler for proven localities-something that is even more important on something like a retic where a) pure localities are rare and b) it has a significant bearing on size.

So here we have a 1.0 F1 pure Madu locality reticulated python. Parents are both WC long term captives and both are between 4 1/2 and 5'!

To say I'm excited to have found him is an understatement! :D

Breeder pic for now. Should be incoming in a couple of weeks.
jay's reptiles
04-06-17, 12:08 PM
WOW, so pretty.
Skipper7
04-06-17, 12:09 PM
Wow!! I'd love a retic with that size and beauty
Tsubaki
04-06-17, 12:41 PM
Congrats! :D
Tiny Boidae
04-06-17, 12:48 PM
That's awesome. Great looking animal. Enjoy him!
dannybgoode
04-06-17, 12:50 PM
Thanks all

Really is a dream snake and there's only a couple of others 'on the list' so to speak.

Thing is about sd Retics is they don't think they're small so they have all the attributes of a 20'+ monster except the size and yes I agree, so pretty. :)
dave himself
04-06-17, 02:40 PM
Welcome to the club Danny ;)
trailblazer295
04-08-17, 06:32 PM
Beautiful retic, looks quite similar to one I was considering recently.
dannybgoode
04-08-17, 10:58 PM
Beautiful retic, looks quite similar to one I was considering recently.

What stopped you?

Spoke to the breeder on Friday - nice guy, knows his stuff and hopefully snake will be ready in a couple of weeks :)
trailblazer295
04-09-17, 04:44 AM
What stopped you?

Spoke to the breeder on Friday - nice guy, knows his stuff and hopefully snake will be ready in a couple of weeks :)

Wasn't a pure locality like that and picked a fire tiger instead I posted about.
dannybgoode
04-09-17, 05:32 AM
Wasn't a pure locality like that and picked a fire tiger instead I posted about.

Fair enough. I nearly went for an SD platinum in a charity auction. Very pretty snake and would have been much cheaper but was not pure locality.

It was a tough choice but couldn't pass the opportunity on this one.
trailblazer295
04-09-17, 05:55 AM
Fair enough. I nearly went for an SD platinum in a charity auction. Very pretty snake and would have been much cheaper but was not pure locality.

It was a tough choice but couldn't pass the opportunity on this one.

I would have done the same thing, if had the opportunity for such a pure blood direct line to wild caught. Better someone like yourself got it, one day someone with a pure female might want to breed. Best to keep such pure animals pure. Harder and harder these days, everything is mixed and unknowns.
dannybgoode
04-09-17, 06:12 AM
I know someone with a 1.1 pair of proven locality so will try and snag a female when he breeds them then I'll have an unrelated pair myself :D
trailblazer295
04-09-17, 06:23 AM
I know someone with a 1.1 pair of proven locality so will try and snag a female when he breeds them then I'll have an unrelated pair myself :D

You'll have to breed then ;) You'll be obligated too :p
dannybgoode
05-07-17, 07:54 AM
Just had a text through from the courier. The retic is arriving late next week :)

I'm ever so slightly giddy. My local store had some mainland x Madu in and they're just such special looking snakes...