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Could some one post a pic of some one holding an adult jampea,dawf or jampea/dawf retic?

Sorry if this is somewhat off-topic, but this is something I have learned from more experienced people. Jampeas really shouldn't be considered dwarfs, but a smaller retic. The real dwarfs are the Kays and superdwarfs. Jamps can get to 15ft, and to me, that's no dwarf!
I don't have any pics, but I did a quick search and there are many in the Photo Gallery. Hope this helps!

I hate to sound like a broken record however, Jampeas ARE Dwarfs. They are much smaller than normals and on avrage closer to 1/3 of the size. Think about it a little, my breeding male weighs around 15lbs, is over 6 years old and is only around 8'. He is also feed very well. I have a normal male who is 15' and weighs 90 lbs, only he is only 4 years old. The babys I have hatched have weighed on avrage around 65 grams, compair that to a normal, where average weights may be closer to 175 grams. You factor into the equation that at the moment the only true dwarfs are kayuadi and supers however scientificaly the Kayuadi is the same snake, although from an adjacent island. Geneticaly speaking they are the same and have both been classified as Python Reticulatus Jampeanus. To tell the absolute truth, I have owned both and cannot readily tell them apart, not by color, shape, size or growth rates. Saying there not Dwarfs because sombody has pushed one to 15' is kinda ironic, the difrence is still more considerable than you give them credit for. How many normals reach 27'? Your avrage Jampea will never reach 15', and will certainly never reach 20' ever... Compairing growth rates of the 30 babys from last years clutch you will see that jampeas on avrage grow to about 4.5 after a year. I have Yearling albinos that are already twice this size and then some. I would assume that the avrage Jampea female will reach maybe 10' and the avrage male may reach 8' it is a mistake to make an assumtion about the size of a species based on the size of an individual, It is not common a for a female jampea to reach 13', but if feed heavily some are capable of doing so, and some a very small percentage may reach 15'. If they all were capable then certainly there would be more photos. I liken it to having a 27' normal, just because they can get that big dosn't meen they will, or even that they have to. I doubt that the avrage normal retic is capable of that size but there has been at least one... If we can agree that 13' is large for a Jampea, and that 24' is above avrage for a normal, then At 13' a Jampea may weigh in at 50 lbs, please compair this to a 24' normal sometime? 13' is big for a Jampea, just as 26' is big for a normal. The point is they are not capable of coming even close to that. These are retics that are capable of breeding at 6', infact they are not even found to grow much larger than this in the wild, and to my knowledge the largest found were still under 9'. Sorry for ranting it just dosnt seem logical to me to say they are not smaller than normals, when even the crossbreed jampeas have proven to be smaller. They have without a doubt in my mind proven themselfs as dwarfs....

-Thanks Shaun D

Jampea Retics

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Well ive been trying to sleep forever and its not working... So, heres a pic of me playing with my male Jampea retic. He proved himself as a breeder shortly after this photo was taken, and has not grown more than an inch in the last year scince. Enjoy, Shaun D

>>Could some one post a pic of some one holding an adult jampea,dawf or jampea/dawf retic?

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