I'm sure everybody in this hobby has the same experience as me. This is not a very popular hobby, so I, (as well as probably everybody else) am known by friends as snakeman. Well, a guy I work out with has been trying to tell me for months about a Reticulated python in Java of 48 feet in length. I would always knod, say ok great, end of convo. Well, today he brought in a newspaper clipping confirming this thing. My mouth dropped. 48' and 8 inches long, weighing in at 983 lbs, this thing is a monster. I wouldn't want to catch that one on a bad day while hungry. So, I came home, and went straight to google and searched for more information on this thing. Theres tons of links, but here's the first one that came up, and has a picture, I thought I'd share it.... Even as a snake keeper, and i have some big burms... this thing is too much.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3845750/
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all I can say..... WOW
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That one's a couple years old and I'm not clear on the details anymore, but I believe it was more in the range of 28-30 feet long when all was said and done. Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong 
. Still a LARGE retic by any means.
Quig
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Saw that on NGC and THAT snake was in the mid 20's. They never did see a snake that big. Would be cool though, wouldn't it?
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1.0 ghost
1.1 albino
0.1 het albino
Yea I remember it being in the 20's and a lot smaller than they said.
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1.1 Motley het butter corns
0.1 Snow corn
0.1 Okeetee corn
1.0 Anery mutt corn
0.1 Stripe Ghost corn
0.1 Amelanistic corn het carmel
2.1 Colombian Redtails
1.0 Hypo Colombian redtail
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Anery Kenyan sand boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan sand boa
Yep, if you're good with photography you can do extreme things with a picture.
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That is from 2004, they went over and measured it, it was in the mid 20 foot range.
yes, I also saw it many years ago and it was measured out about 20 feet. Isn't there an award of $50,000 or more for the first recorded snake over 30 feet? Still uncollected.
Link
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N-Joy,
A.C.
http://www.midwestexoticpetcenter.com/
