some carpets

Actually, that for sure looks like a red phase costal through and through. No hint of IJ in it that I can see. kzoo, do a search on other forums for red coastals and you will see what I am talking about. Also, I will put a post up next week when some of the babies shed out to show some more red phase coastals. They really are that red as babies...it is pretty cool to see. And your jag is both a jag and a red phase, so when you breed her you will get some red sibs like the one pictured above. You will get a lot of good stuff out of her!!!


Great looking red phase by the way!!!

Dunno how I missed this thread....GORGEOUS snakes!! :clap:

that is awesome! yeah i hope i didnt come across wrong, i'll be the first to admit i'm a noob when it comes to carpets.

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Originally Posted by kzooherpetoculturist

i'll be the first to admit i'm a noob when it comes to carpets.

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Well, you won't be a noob for long with a girl like you have now!!! You will have a few people interested in her clutch, that's for sure!!! Shoot me a PM if you are having a hard time finding red coastal posts and I will help you out. You should find them interesting since you have one, and the lineage of red coastals that your girl came from is actually fairly well documented, as far as US carpets go anyway. I can point you to pics of her grandma, and give you the name of the guy that originally had her.

As for your red Blake, do you know much history on him? He sure looks good!!!

nope, sorry, I was writing about that a little earlier in this thread... he was an accident for the guy to have and I was in the right place at the right time to get him... and he thought it was a bad thing that he was red... ;)

and kzoo, don't worry about it, it's cool...

Blake,

I got my female striped Jungle from Bob Clark last year as a baby. He said he bred her. Fortunately for you yours are older so we'll just have to wait and see what the striped belly means if anything if you get a chance of a successful breeding. Maybe Ben has some insite on it. Ben?

In any case you have some really impressive snakes.

Charlie

Do you have any pictures of your striped jungle? I'd love to see it... and yeah, I'm pretty excited to see what happens with mine...

We have jungles from different lines that are about as distantly related as you can get within jungles that have the ventral striping. Some for more than half of their belly. It does seem to carry through to some of the babies...but nothing more than that so far for us. But, you never know what will happen until you try!!! Either way, great looking snakes!!! And you for sure scored getting that red as a "mistake" then.

I looked at your website and wow, you guys have some REALLY nice carpets... personally my favorite ones are the tigers, but that's one of the nicest carpet collections I've seen... both of those jungles of mine we've talking about have the belly striping for the back ~40-50% of their bellies...

Thanks a lot for the compliments Blake! My partner and I have been working with jungles since 1998. Wow, coming up on 10 years now I guess. We would have quite a few more, but back in 2001 or so (Justin, correct me if I get the details here mixed up) we had a heater problem and lost all our adults. That just left us with the "ugly" babies that no one had picked up yet. Well, those ugly ones ended up turning out pretty nice and things have been smooth ever since then. We have had lots of cool people help us out along the way on forums like this and we are pretty happy to now be at the point where we get to hatch out quite a few lookers each year. It is a lot of fun. And it looks like you have a good start towards being able to make some nice babies yourself. Very cool stuff. And, it does sound like the ventral striping on yours is very similar to what we see on some of ours. For sure keep us posted on here once you get some babies and let us know how that trait seems to get passed with your line.