Reticulated Python Photo Gallery

& Size Comparisons

 

 

Super Dwarfs

       

In 2004, we acquired 5.5 pure Super Dwarf Reticulated Pythons from a Canadian breeder..  The parents of these animals are extremely tiny by Reticulated Python standards.  At 5-6 years of age, they ranged from 5 - 6.5 feet in length, about the size of a Carpet Python.  Our group is breeding now and at 4 years of age, are still all under 7 feet in length.  We also acquired 1.1 retics that were produced from breeding a male dwarf albino to a super dwarf.  These snakes are a little bigger that a pure super dwarf, but are still under 8 feet long. 

We intend to breed  color and pattern mutations into this super dwarf line.  Our goal is to provide all of the stunning Retic morphs, but in a size that the average snake owner can easily house and manage. 

Here are photos of the original imports of this line of super dwarfs.  These animals produced most of our super dwarf breeders.  The male is on the left, female on the right.

Original imported super dwarfs (left-male, right-female):

 

Size comparison photos: 

Here are some photos with me holding several retics, showing the size differences.  All of the retics in these photos are cb'04 adult breeders.

Super Dwarf:

 

The retic I'm holding here is a cb'04 adult breeder male super dwarf.  Adult males average about 6 feet, females are about 7 feet.

 Dwarf Albino x Super Dwarf:

This retic is the result of breeding a male dwarf albino to a female super dwarf.  Because they are not pure super dwarf, they do get a little bigger.  Shown here is an adult proven breeder female.  She's about 8 feet long. 

Normal Size Albino

 

Here is a normal size male albino.  He's over 10 feet long and easily weighs 5 times what a super dwarf does.

More Size Comparison Photos:

Here is a photo of a juvenile super dwarf with a normal-sized albino.  These snakes are the same age!

 

 '05 super dwarf with an '06 sunfire

 Here is a photo of a gravid adult female next to a soda can to reference her size.

Egg comparison photos:

Eggs from a pure super dwarf female bred to a normal-sized tiger albino male:

 Eggs from our dwarf albino x super dwarf female:

Hatchling Super Dwarfs:

       

 

Here are the morphs we are currently crossing to the super dwarfs.  We hope to have some of these available in the Summer of 2008:

Albinos

   

Albino Tigers

Sunfires

Babies!