Toronto Reptile Expo - May 29th 2011 - Page 6

Nos · 05-30-11, 07:20 AM

i have like 30 plus photos i edited to upload should i make a new thread just for the photos,

Hahaha also Toddy tickles from 102.1 the edge interviewed me at the reptile expo and i was on the radio this morning, such dumb questions, and i think he changed some of my answers

forza_inter · 05-30-11, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by stephanbakir

Did they have some decent retics?

Reptilia (a reptile zoo in toronto) had a display outside the building and there was 1 retic on display....but inside the actual event, i only say dwarf retics for sale....first time i've actually seen dwarf retics and they are absolutely gorgeous! i want one so bad....but i prob need to gain a little more experience before jumping into that

stephanbakir · 05-30-11, 09:49 AM

Because SD retics get small allot of people try and buy them, besides the crazy feeding response and the fact that they are stronger then anything but annies in their size group they do make fantastic pets.

forza_inter · 05-30-11, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by stephanbakir

Because SD retics get small allot of people try and buy them, besides the crazy feeding response and the fact that they are stronger then anything but annies in their size group they do make fantastic pets.

what do you mean by crazy feeding response? and how big approx do they get?

stephanbakir · 05-30-11, 08:33 PM

Female retics are longer and larger then males, and female SD retics max out at about... 8-9 feet. Retics in general throw themselves at their meals, some don't if they were swapped to F/T early enough and fed without shaking the food to entice them.

SD retics also grow slower then other lines, a normal size tiger should reach 8-9 feet by the first year, where as a normal sized sunfire should hit 7-8 feet in the first year.
If you want the smallest SD possible I'd advise asking breeders about the size of the parents, and looking towards sunfires because they generally get much shorter then other morphs.

Lankyrob · 05-31-11, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by forza_inter

what do you mean by crazy feeding response? and how big approx do they get?

My SD certainly has the strongest feeding response of any of my snakes, he gets fed on a plate in his viv and i have to hide the plate until his viv is open then suddenly put it in the viv and shut the door quick, the second he sees the plate, even from across the room, he goes into food mode and will strike at ANYTHING hot. He has struck at the guard around his ceramic heatbulb just cos its hot.

One day i slid the door too far open when i put his rat in, he struck four foot across his viv and then around the door and back another six inches or so and nearly got me. He is crazy and unpredictable when food is around.

When there is no food he is the calmest most relaxed snake i know, i use hi. As a demostrator when i do talks at schools and the kids love him, he gets stroked and prodded by them and just sits there wrapped around my arm without a care in the world. I can even rub his head between his eyes with zero reaction. I just hope that when we do school visits noone produces a plastic plate.............