burms and retics together?

[TonyK]

i want to keep 'real' or 'pure' breed snakes, a.k.a no hybrids!

Just google the price of those Bateaters and I am sure you will change your mind

[Jamster]

Hey guys I think this was one of my first topics when i joined the forum haha. I've noticed that my posts have become more conformist and are now structured far better,

Just an update for the hell of it

Ripcord the Retic is now sitting at just over 3.5m and my burm Cleo is in fact a boy at about the same size, just obviously a little more girthy than the retic.
They are now at work in a roughly 4x4x2.5m high cage along with Custard which is a 3.4m female albino burm. Ripcord and cleo are now bunny eaters and are still doing great:) Will post pics soonish:)

[Burmbuddy]

Hi man

Post some updated pics - nice to see the bigger ones.

Given that the burm is also a male I would really recommend seperating the male retic out. Male retics bite and tear when they fight other males and have been known to kill each other. I have seen a guy over in the US who had a 18ft male tiger break out of its enclosure and break into the viv of a smaller blond male and kill the other male, only to die later from the cuts it recieved.

Just split that nice big cage.

Dan

[Sico]

My Male retic just ripped a chunk out of the female... 15 stitches later and it wasn't even that rough a bite... I was putting her back into the cage they share after feeding them. She seems otherwise fine although it will take a good few sheds before her skin heals up all the way.

[Jamster]

The burm is a definate male, the retics are difficult to sex, so not sure if ripcord is a boy:) I know that male retics fight but I have never heard of retics fighting with other species. He will come home soon and have his own cage:)

[Burmbuddy]

Retics fight with anything...

[F1refly]

Nice looking Retic. I want one now The idea of Bateaters sounds quite cool but if it were me, I'd rather breed Pythons that are a little smaller or maybe create "Burmballs" While I don't quite understand most peoples issue with Hybrids, I do understand the issue with Un-Scrupulous dealers selling them as something else. The rest I don't understand. Maybe it's just me. I would love to create Hybrids and I'm honest enough that if I did, I would sell them as such. Going off topic a bit.
The picture of the cages, are those two cages that are connected or..............

[Jamster]

Yes those cages were connected. I took a jigsaw and cut a square out of both cages and put them together. I would then feed them outside the cage and put them back in separate halves of the cage for a while just in case with a dividing board that slid in between the two:)