First Carpet Python

Nice Coastal. Best of luck; this brings me back to memories of nursing my once sickly pythons and how much they've improved now. :)

juvie carpets are ridiculously resilient... he will be fine, given normal proper care.

Oh he's definitely resilient, he's doing loads better he ate another fuzzie today and i haven't seen but 3 mite since i brought him home and Ive been cleaning his tub everyday and giving him a 5-10 min betadine bath every other day.

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Well she has grown about 6 inches, her girth has doubled, she's feeding every 5 days on small mice and 3 day old rat pups. When i got her she was 75g now she's about 130g.

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Originally Posted by Austin236

Oh and i have a question? How fast do these guys grow on a regular feeding schedule of every 5 or 7 days.

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First of all I wouldn't call 5-7 days "regular" for carpet ptyhons. I much prefer a less-frequent feeding schedule, and depending on the age and subspecies of carpet python, it can range from every 7-10 days or even just every two weeks.

On a 7-10 day schedule, my coastal carpet python male hit 7' and 5lbs at two years old. They put on more mass during their second year of life than the first.

If you aren't already, make sure you get that guy switched over to rats. A mouser carpet python can be a huge huge huge pain, especially since it's quite easy for it to break the 10lb mark.

Yours does look coastal-ish, but I would avoid labeling it as such for breeding purposes. You can't tell for sure on looks alone, and since Australia no longer allows exportation of animals, false labeling of breeders and their offspring can be the downfall o having pure lines of the various subspecies.

Carpets are by far my favorite snakes out there, I hope you enjoy yours :D

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

First of all I wouldn't call 5-7 days "regular" for carpet ptyhons. I much prefer a less-frequent feeding schedule, and depending on the age and subspecies of carpet python, it can range from every 7-10 days or even just every two weeks.

On a 7-10 day schedule, my coastal carpet python male hit 7' and 5lbs at two years old. They put on more mass during their second year of life than the first.

If you aren't already, make sure you get that guy switched over to rats. A mouser carpet python can be a huge huge huge pain, especially since it's quite easy for it to break the 10lb mark.

Yours does look coastal-ish, but I would avoid labeling it as such for breeding purposes. You can't tell for sure on looks alone, and since Australia no longer allows exportation of animals, false labeling of breeders and their offspring can be the downfall o having pure lines of the various subspecies.

Carpets are by far my favorite snakes out there, I hope you enjoy yours :D

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Yeah im not 100% on if its a coastal because I rescued this snake from a horrible owner. So I went by what my researching found and what my local reptile guy Ben Seigel thought, he said it almost has an Irian Jaya thing going on its color so who knows, im just labeling coastal because more than likely it has coastal in it. This girl is not picky I mix it up every week between f/k 3 day old rat pinkies and small mice. So far she hasn't been picky.:D

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Originally Posted by Austin236

Yeah im not 100% on if its a coastal because I rescued this snake from a horrible owner. So I went by what my researching found and what my local reptile guy Ben Seigel thought, he said it almost has an Irian Jaya thing going on its color so who knows, im just labeling coastal because more than likely it has coastal in it. This girl is not picky I mix it up every week between f/k 3 day old rat pinkies and small mice. So far she hasn't been picky.:D

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Carpets are great eatters and can sometimes go both ways between mice or rats, but they can also get hooked on one or the other eventually as well. Why run the risk of it wanting just mice if it will accept rats? If it is a coastal it is going to get big. A full grown coastal would only need one appropriate sized rat but if it will only eat mice your looking at needing to fed it 10 or 12 mice at a time. That's why you don't want it eatting mice.

And if it does have IJ in it you really don't want to feed it mice as IJ are known for getting stuck on just mice.