Safe handling practice for large snakes

[Ian of Oldham]

Just stop breeding to sale

[dave himself]

Originally Posted by Ian of Oldham

Just stop breeding to sale

Sadly mate that's not the way the world works. Normal female retics are selling for £80 that's a snake that has the potential of hitting 18ft and I'm not sure if the seller vets the buyers or not

[trailblazer295]

Originally Posted by dave himself

Sorry mate now I feel foolish :

Don't worry man, hard with text to pick up the tone. Cheers

Originally Posted by dave himself

Sadly mate that's not the way the world works. Normal female retics are selling for £80 that's a snake that has the potential of hitting 18ft and I'm not sure if the seller vets the buyers or not

No snakes are that cheap here but don't think the market for retics here is big enough. No breeders I'm aware of so any retics are expensive.

Though I've seen a lot of fish sold for cheap red tail catfish (3000g aquarium, couple hundred lbs) silver arowana (5ft and couple hundred gallon min tank) sadly these fish usually die. Unfortunately in the pet trade you can buy anything if you have the cash in your pocket. Even in a province where HOTS are illegal you can buy them if you know where to go and have the cash.

I'd never own giants or hots but keep the pics of your giants coming. Cheers.

[dave himself]

Originally Posted by trailblazer295

Don't worry man, hard with text to pick up the tone. Cheers




No snakes are that cheap here but don't think the market for retics here is big enough. No breeders I'm aware of so any retics are expensive.

Though I've seen a lot of fish sold for cheap red tail catfish (3000g aquarium, couple hundred lbs) silver arowana (5ft and couple hundred gallon min tank) sadly these fish usually die. Unfortunately in the pet trade you can buy anything if you have the cash in your pocket. Even in a province where HOTS are illegal you can buy them if you know where to go and have the cash.

I'd never own giants or hots but keep the pics of your giants coming. Cheers.

Thanks buddy and I know exactly what you mean we had a case over here about 10 years ago when a 15 year old lad came on to one of the Irish reptile forums, posting pics of his hatchling purple tiger female retic. Luckily one of the Mods off the site lived not to far from him and she went round and explained just what mummy and daddy had bought for their son. But just think someone sold a kid who up to that point only experience was a dwarf boa, a mainland retic