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  • 10-07-2008, 04:52 AM
    Chuck
    Re: Thinking of getting a Carpet Python...
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by xanaxez View Post
    yea they have a few nice ones also, but just in my opinion some of them like the jag x coastals are overly priced.

    I am interested what you think they are worth. AAR has very quality stock at market prices, I am surprised you would say that.
  • 10-07-2008, 11:18 AM
    Colin Vestrand
    Re: Thinking of getting a Carpet Python...
    haha, seriously... i wasn't sure if that was sarcasm or serious. they're much more reasonably priced than just about anyone i can think of. \

    carpets are not balls, you can't just put a blanket price on them.
  • 10-07-2008, 12:01 PM
    xanaxez
    Re: Thinking of getting a Carpet Python...
    well... it was being serious, but like i said in my opinion and it differes from alot of others. i am sure they have great quality snakes and i do not disagree but in my opinion even though i love carpets a normal junglexjag @ 700.00 is kind of high when you can get deals on stripped or tigers for just a couple of hundred dollars more. i'm not putting down anyones prices of animals or quality by no means here im just voicing an opinion. an animal is worth as much as someone will pay for it. i know quality has alot to do with it but as i have seen from alot of dealers and so forth, they have a clutch and get a few that are a little different in colors or stripes...etc and those are priced higher then the others? they both came from the same parents with the same blood line so what makes one better then the other? quality doesnt change just the appearance so it seems to me that its more about the eye candy to some then it is about the quality or the animal.
  • 10-07-2008, 12:13 PM
    Colin Vestrand
    Re: Thinking of getting a Carpet Python...
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by xanaxez View Post
    they have a clutch and get a few that are a little different in colors or stripes...etc and those are priced higher then the others? they both came from the same parents with the same blood line so what makes one better then the other? quality doesnt change just the appearance so it seems to me that its more about the eye candy to some then it is about the quality or the animal.

    well, i gotta say i disagree completely... if this were true then there would be no point to selective breeding!
    you hold back, or sell for higher prices, the ones that are a step above the rest because they either A)make a better display snake, or B)will potentially have better offspring than their siblings. if you throw that out the window then how can we improve the lines to breed for color or pattern?
  • 10-07-2008, 12:13 PM
    m00kfu
    Re: Thinking of getting a Carpet Python...
    Isn't the eye candy what you WANT when you buy a carpet? I don't know about you, but I would much rather pay a little more for one that looks spectacular than one that just looks average.
  • 10-07-2008, 12:22 PM
    xanaxez
    Re: Thinking of getting a Carpet Python...
    both of you are correct and i do not disagree i guess i just do not look at them as a display object. i look at them as something i can enjoy to have and play around with as a pet. i have a couple of very nice looking ones i guess and i have a couple that wasnt as fortunate in looks but they all are equal to me no matter how nice or ugly they may be they are still part of my family and care for them all like they are spectacular because to me they all are.
  • 10-07-2008, 01:38 PM
    reaxion07
    Re: Thinking of getting a Carpet Python...
    ^That's how I feel about my Normal BP. He may not be fancy, but he's still awesome. After our first shed with him, he actually got quite a bit of yellow on the sides, almost like a pastel! I think the Australian site's photo's aren't the same quality as Will Bird's, maybe that's why the snakes look different? You guy's have given me a ton of good info, this forum is amazing. Thanks!

    One more - are they like BP's in that it's stressful for them to be in an enclosure that's too large? Is it okay to put a juvenile in an adult sized enclosure...
  • 10-07-2008, 02:45 PM
    Chuck
    Re: Thinking of getting a Carpet Python...
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by xanaxez View Post
    well... it was being serious, but like i said in my opinion and it differes from alot of others. i am sure they have great quality snakes and i do not disagree but in my opinion even though i love carpets a normal junglexjag @ 700.00 is kind of high when you can get deals on stripped or tigers for just a couple of hundred dollars more. i'm not putting down anyones prices of animals or quality by no means here im just voicing an opinion. an animal is worth as much as someone will pay for it. i know quality has alot to do with it but as i have seen from alot of dealers and so forth, they have a clutch and get a few that are a little different in colors or stripes...etc and those are priced higher then the others? they both came from the same parents with the same blood line so what makes one better then the other? quality doesnt change just the appearance so it seems to me that its more about the eye candy to some then it is about the quality or the animal.

    I am not sure how you think line breeding works but selective breeding is how quality animals are produced in the first place. Differance in color and patten may not mean that much to you but when breed for there traits they inhance furtue offspring for the same trait thus making them more valuable to the individual trying to line breed for a trait. Now when you say a normal jungle Jag for $700 what do you mean normal jungle jag they are a morp not some natural sub-species varient of the carpet pythons. You can't make a price comparison and say a Jag is over price or not worth it when you compare it to a tiger or a striped coastal. All three are totally diffrent and it is like comparing apples and oranges. look I am not trying to poop in your wheaties I just don't think you fully understand what you are talking about.

    Any snake in to big of an enclosure will get strressed out and may go off feeding, so yes.
  • 10-07-2008, 05:36 PM
    kessers
    Re: Thinking of getting a Carpet Python...
    I've got a pair of Diamond x Jungle's. I got both full grown. They both have a super sweet disposition, the female more so than the male. They both LOVE to eat. The male will eat cold rats and in the care of his last owner once ate a glove with a faux fur trim.

    To give you an idea of how sweet these snakes can be and why I love my pair so much. My husband found her at a reptile rescue. The rescuer told us that she likes baths and that as a "bonding" experience we should give her a quick bathe when we got her home. She started to push her shed up off her nose. I didn't have her enclosure fully set up so there was nothing rough for her to rub her shed off on. So she allowed me to peel the whole shed off of her. from heat pits to the tip of her tail. She didn't so much as nose butt me to get me to stop.

    I would however like to point out that the wet skin of a 7ft + snake reminded me of a used elephant condom. Kind of unpleasant lol.
  • 10-07-2008, 05:40 PM
    reaxion07
    Re: Thinking of getting a Carpet Python...
    Hahahaha, nice description. That's awesome - my girlfriend got tagged when we were soaking our BP for getting to close to his head. He is really intolerant of movement towards/too close to his head. I really want one now - time to research tub prices!
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