Carpet pythons

Glad she is settling in! I tried the link and it said "access denied".

Try this one? It says this is my animal's "public page" so it should be visible I think:

http://www.iherp.com/Public/Animals/...nimalID=194321

Oh yeah, that works. Beautiful markings and color. Wow!

Cool, now I don't have to keep multiple picture galleries :)

I've added some pics of the parents and breeding, working on trying to get some of the grandparents...

She looks great and comes from really good stock DB. Her environment sounds comfy and she seems to have a good temperament. All she needs to do now is shed and eat. I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy her a lot.

Love it!

Great choice there!

Man I am so in love with that combo, congrats! :)

Nothing much to report, she hasn't shed yet. I offered a mouse today but she wasn't interested so I'll give her a few days or until after the shed to try again. I'd rather wait until she's in her fresh coat of paint to take new pics too.

Got up this morning and found a shed skin in the cage. Also, I weighed her two days ago at 117 grams. She's pretty slender, got to get a little meat on her. Rock, your bredli is probably around 1.5x that weight I think?

I got my order in from Perfect Prey with some small adult mice. They're a little bigger than what she's been eating but I talked it over with the breeder and he thought it should be fine. After these are used up I'll be moving her to rats but I didn't want to try switching food sources at the same time she was moving to a totally new environment (cage instead of tub, handling, etc...)

I offered her the smallest mouse (I weighed all of them) this afternoon but she didn't take it. Will try again in a day or two :(

Sorry, she didn't eat again. Sounds like you are close.

You're correct about the weight of my Bredli. I checked him last night and he has definitely grown a little bit. He is hovering around 200-225 grams now. I weighed him last night on the old kitchen scale which does not have the most accurate display, but it's zeroed out.

Anyone who has records... Back when your carpets were around the 120 gram mark what size prey did you give them?

I'll try again later today but if a 13-14 gram mouse is too big I can pick up a couple smaller ones locally to try her on until she grows into the bigger size.

Just my 2 cents as you know I'm not an expert, but it does seem like you have the correct size mouse.

My Bredli was around 145 grams when I got him, very slender and with a small head compared to my 6 month old BPs. My first feeding was a large mouse. No problem. Then I jumped up to rat pups which were supposed to be roughly the same size but the ones I was given during the first two feedings were exceptionally large. I have video of the those feedings and in retrospect they still seem way too large but he had no problems with them.

One difference, perhaps, mine ate live from the breeder and I have continued that.

DB- I'm glad your girl shed for you. If she refused yesterday I wouldn't offer her food again for another 5-7 days or whenever her next scheduled feeding date is. It won't hurt her to wait and you'll waste fewer feeders. When my carpets were 120g I was feeding them 1-2 rat fuzzys every 5-7 days. The rat fuzzys are 10-19g each. I don't push the envelope too far but carpets can take some pretty large meals. I've fed my carpets jumbo mice at 125g with no problems. Those mice were 30-35g each.

At that size I was feeding my JCP a rat fuzzy every five days, with occasional mouse fuzzy snacks when another snake refused.

I forgot how small he was when I got him!


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Thanks for the input. I did some searching online and found pics of carpets eating pretty big stuff so I don't think the size of the mice is the issue - most likely she's just not fully settled in yet. She tends to spend all day in her belly-heated hide log and then come out some at night. Hopefully as she acclimates I'll see her outside more during the daytime as well. When I take her out she seems pretty mellow and has never tried to bite. She will explore a bit and sometimes she is a little startled by an unexpected touch but not that bad - it's not like she tries to take off running.

Her last meal was about two weeks ago so she's definitely "due" and I'd hoped she was only refusing due to being in shed but I'll go ahead and give her a bit longer.

I haven't had the chance to figure out how to take some really good pics yet, but here's a quick phone snapshot from the other night when she was hanging out on her branch like she does every night.

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...psk4j4yedg.jpg

Sweet picture. I have to say, over and over, that is such a beautiful snake. With all the talk on Boelen's, yours really gives it a run for it's money! Such a great pattern throughout. Stunning.

Will Byrd has some nice info about carpets.

He tends to feed larger meals.

http://ectotherms.net/kyherpsoc/carpetpythons.html

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Sweet picture. I have to say, over and over, that is such a beautiful snake. With all the talk on Boelen's, yours really gives it a run for it's money! Such a great pattern throughout. Stunning.

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Thanks. I really like the way she looks so much like a Diamond and then adds the Jungle style banding. It's a great mix of traits and seems relatively unique. Most Diamond/Jungles I see are the opposite where they look like a Jungle but cleaner and with very uniform tipping within their bands.

I'm going to try to feed her again this weekend, really hope she'll take it this time. I'm going to wait until she come out of her own accord in the evening which is around the 9pm mark after the timer has cut off her lights and heat. After it goes dark she comes out to sit on her branch and that's when the mouse will appear :)

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Thanks. I really like the way she looks so much like a Diamond and then adds the Jungle style banding. It's a great mix of traits and seems relatively unique. Most Diamond/Jungles I see are the opposite where they look like a Jungle but cleaner and with very uniform tipping within their bands.

I'm going to try to feed her again this weekend, really hope she'll take it this time. I'm going to wait until she come out of her own accord in the evening which is around the 9pm mark after the timer has cut off her lights and heat. After it goes dark she comes out to sit on her branch and that's when the mouse will appear :)

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One tip that you may already know, but I've been doing it lately, is to scent the room. I bring the rats in the room and let them sit there first. I read 30 minutes but 10 minutes seems to do the trick for mine. They start to come out in search mode so I know they are primed and ready.

That's a great photo DB! Besides being beautiful, they are so satisfying to watch when they are in arboreal mode. :)

Your girl looks GREAT DB! She has some really strong diamond influence and she's only gonna get better.

OK, successful feed! As described earlier, I waited until she came out on her branch after dark. Thawed in hot water, dried off, and left to sit near her cage for about 15 minutes so some scent might spread around. I opened the cage and it took her a few seconds to think about it and smell it and then she struck from her perch. The delay may have been due to the larger sized prey.

Anyway, she constricted it hanging in the air and was able to hold onto it with some coils while she adjusted her head into position. I was trying to leave her alone so I missed the actual swallowing but maybe next time. I just looked over and the mouse wasn't hanging in the air anymore so I thought maybe she dropped it but then I didn't see it on the ground either :)

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Your girl looks GREAT DB! She has some really strong diamond influence and she's only gonna get better.

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Yeah, I can't wait to see how she develops over time, especially the pale saddles - I'm curious whether they turn more yellow, more white, or what.

DB - what a looker you have there, congratulations.

I'm on the fence right now with adding another snake to my collection. I'm not into this for breeding, just collecting and the idea of a carpet really intrigues me. I read the entire thread and gained a lot of information about carpets, the questions you asked are some of the same I have so I thank you for posting and the other carpet owners for responding.

I'll be following your posts and hopefully seeing more pictures of your acquisition. By the way - did you pick a name for her?