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Retic Question:
What is the size of the smallest Retic available on the market today? And do the retics that are labeled as "dwarfs" actually stay small despite a good feeding schedule? Thanks for your time guys, just a question that was bugging me all these years.
Sincerely,
Fred Albury
This has been answered over and over again but I'll answer it again. The smallest that I know of is 6ft. They may actually be smaller then 6ft those would be known as super dwarfs. Kayaudi's are known to get about 9ft while jampea's can get as large as 14ft. I'm talking about females on these. Now Bali Yellow Head Retics while labled as dwarfs many times over are in my opinion not dwarfs. I personally Kept a trio with my male being 10 1/2ft 6yr old although he was fed every 3 weeks to keep him small. He came to me in poor shape, his backbone was showing! They are a bit slimmer then a normals though. I know a 16ft pair of Bali Retics that were sold. Remember C.B.B. usually grow a bit bigger then their w.c. counterparts. Most of the Dwarf Morphs are dwarfs bred to the morph and babies bred back to the normals. That's 33 1/2 % dwarf. Instead of thinking about money, people should be breeding them back into dwarfs again and again to get a much smaller verson. How many ft. Is a dwarf to you? If your comparing it to one of the 33ft retics found then yes they are dwarfs. Need anything else just post away,
John
"Most of the Dwarf Morphs are dwarfs bred to the morph and babies bred back to the normals. That's 33 1/2 % dwarf."
Where did you come up with this? You say most of the dwarf morphs like there are a ton of them. There have only been a few clutches of dwarf morphs ever produced.
As far as I know there has only been one clutch of dwarf tigers and that was produced by Mike Wilbanks. None of the offspring from that group are even large enough to breed yet.
As far as the dwarf albinos, everyone is working to breed them back to dwarfs to create smaller albinos...not larger ones. The same goes for the tigers.
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