It's just my view on this but owning one of these amazing snakes is an awful lot of responsibility. First off is the size, if you go for a mainland and it's female you can end up with a snake that is 16 to 20 long, are you prepared for this ?. The second thing is another person to help out when things go wrong,and they do. My wife and I never handle any of our larger snake alone IMO its just not worth the risk. The third thing would be space and cost, we don't know what size our female retic will end up, but we're prepared to give her a 9x3x3 viv at the very least. Then there's the cost of feeding, when we brought our girl home she was eating small weaner rats ( I think ) now she's eating medium rabbit's, and she will only be two years old this May coming. And finally are you ready to deal with your normal placid large snake if things go wrong ?. We've had Daisy, who is normally so laidback and good natured that we've had the neighborhood children in stroking her and getting their pictures took with her, turn on us in seconds and it really is no fun trying to deal with a snake her size who does not want to go back in her viv. I have posted many times that our retic is the calmest snake that we have and she is. But does that I mean that I trust her or don't give her the respect she deserves not at all, and the bigger she gets the more respect she will be given. I'm not trying to put you off owning or caring for one of these amazing snakes, it's just I've seen it time time again, people get a large snake and once it grows they realize what they have done and want to move it on. I'm not saying you would do that I'm just saying it does happen. I hope anything thing I've written helps, and if you do decide to buy there are plenty of people on here to help you out
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