For those of you with large constrictors (retics, burms, rocks, scrubs)
I was curious about how much experience everyone had with snakes/reptiles before they got their first big constrictor.
I know most people wont like this as I had almost none. I had a boa for about 6 months before I got my first retic. I had been researching snakes and such for about a year and half to two years before I got my first snake. The boa was suppose to be a nice medium sized snake to get use to larger constrictors. The plan changed though when I came across a very nice high silver male retic in a petshop.
From what I had been reading on the forums and still see sometimes. "No snake can really prepare you for a retic." So I just decided to jump in.
He was about 5 feet or so when I got him about 2 years ago. Now he is around 12-13 feet. Havent had any real trouble with him once I got him to calm down.
I've since gotten a purple albino male and I'm looking into getting a couple more retics. Mainly 1 or 2 nice locals (Sula, Buton, anything with a nice yellow head) and maybe 3 or 4 more morphs (platty, anthrax, caramel are on top of the list.)
I was curious about how much experience everyone had with snakes/reptiles before they got their first big constrictor.
I know most people wont like this as I had almost none. I had a boa for about 6 months before I got my first retic. I had been researching snakes and such for about a year and half to two years before I got my first snake. The boa was suppose to be a nice medium sized snake to get use to larger constrictors. The plan changed though when I came across a very nice high silver male retic in a petshop.
From what I had been reading on the forums and still see sometimes. "No snake can really prepare you for a retic." So I just decided to jump in.
He was about 5 feet or so when I got him about 2 years ago. Now he is around 12-13 feet. Havent had any real trouble with him once I got him to calm down.
I've since gotten a purple albino male and I'm looking into getting a couple more retics. Mainly 1 or 2 nice locals (Sula, Buton, anything with a nice yellow head) and maybe 3 or 4 more morphs (platty, anthrax, caramel are on top of the list.)