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Best representation of her colors I can get and still does no justice. Indirect natural light during the last hour of daylight.
Brisbane Locality Coastal Carpet Python
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What a sensational looking snake, with some of the best color and pattern traits I've ever seen in a coastal.
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Rockhampton Locality Coastal Carpet Python
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My little ij girl is growing nicely and just shed. Sorry for the lighting, I really wish the camera did her a little justice because her colors are gorgeous.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...dfd8810d0e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...efe99d0d67.jpg
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Loving all these pics. Carpets are so beautiful and have such variations between the different locales.
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Loving all these pics. Carpets are so beautiful and have such variations between the different locales.
Couldn’t agree more. Alongside Boas, adding Morelia is probably the best decision I’ve ever made as a keeper. Can’t speak highly enough of them.
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Love this podcast. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want a Roughie. Thankfully the $1500 price tag has me sufficiently at bay
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Love this podcast. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want a Roughie. Thankfully the $1500 price tag has me sufficiently at bay
Same!
Roughies' evolutionary and ecological backstory is really cool, and between that and their manageable size one would be more than welcome in my house. If their prices here were more like they are in Australia -- I'm pretty sure they're typically $200-300 AUS over there -- one may have even beaten the Papuan home. The US price tags are far greater than I'm willing to pay, though.
It'll be interesting to see what the Morelia (and Morelia-adjacent) market will look like in a few years. It seems like the prices for most everything are going up, save for commonly bred snakes like coastals and jungles.
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Not a great picture, but fresh new skin on Stella this morning. I’ll try for better lighting and pictures when I get home this afternoon
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Wow, where have you been hiding these 3 beauties? :gj: I see you've been a member for almost a year now.
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Great looking Morelia! Thanks for sharing! I would love to hear some descriptions of all four of the critters you posted here. Jungle jag, carpondro, caramel jag etc, and coastal something or other?
I finally got into Morelia after close to 20yrs of what ifs, maybe later, someday, etc and finally decided “eff it!” Best decision I’ve made as a lifelong keeper.
Hope to see more posts of your animals around here!
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Wow, where have you been hiding these 3 beauties? :gj: I see you've been a member for almost a year now.
Thanks, I joined a while back and to be honest never really posted anything, just had a nose about and I don’t use the Internet much, mainly just research, but loved the snakes on this thread so thought I’d put pictures of my 4 Morelia up 😊
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Thanks, I’ve had snakes over 25 years on and off and a few years ago saw a baby carpet for sale in my local pet shop and had to get him, which kicked off my new found interest. The first in the pictures is a jungle/jag female, the second is a Carpondro female, 25%GTP 75% carpet, the third is her sibling Carpondro male, and the fourth picture is the carpet Python female I bought in the pet shop, I know nothing of her morph or breeding, she was just sold as a carpet Python. I have a few more snakes, 18 in total, Sorong GTP, Peruvian rainbow boa, Greay Banded kingsnake and the rest are various morphs of ball pythons, but I live my Morelia, just wish I had the room to get more 😊
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Thanks, I joined a while back and to be honest never really posted anything, just had a nose about and I don’t use the Internet much, mainly just research, but loved the snakes on this thread so thought I’d put pictures of my 4 Morelia up 😊
Well I hope you come out of hiding more often...we love "eye-candy" around here. No fair holding out on us- ;)
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Agreed. The Morelia Mafia mobs deep around here in the last year and a half or so. Post ‘em if you got ‘em!
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Thanks, I’ve had snakes over 25 years on and off and a few years ago saw a baby carpet for sale in my local pet shop and had to get him, which kicked off my new found interest. The first in the pictures is a jungle/jag female, the second is a Carpondro female, 25%GTP 75% carpet, the third is her sibling Carpondro male, and the fourth picture is the carpet Python female I bought in the pet shop, I know nothing of her morph or breeding, she was just sold as a carpet Python. I have a few more snakes, 18 in total, Sorong GTP, Peruvian rainbow boa, Greay Banded kingsnake and the rest are various morphs of ball pythons, but I live my Morelia, just wish I had the room to get more 😊
One more snake & we'll be tied. ;) I have 19...:D
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Great looking stuff on these latest picture posts.
I'm waiting for spring here and I'll pop a few new ones up.
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Thanks everyone for your comments, here’s photos of my Carpondro’s when they were juveniles, their mother and father, and here’s my GTP which I’m hoping to breed with my Carpondro’s to put more GTP into the mix, but as of yet, unsexed.
Male Carpondro
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Their mother 50/50 Carpondro
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Their father, albino carpet (can’t remember morph)
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And my GTP, was bought as an unsexed Aru but opinions are he/she is probably a Sorong
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I'm sure I'm not the only one here that's very impressed with your beautiful snakes- thanks for sharing them. :gj:
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I'm sure I'm not the only one here that's very impressed with your beautiful snakes- thanks for sharing them. :gj:
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Gotta say, I'm liking the activity and Morelia I've been seeing on this thread lately! Awesome groups of snakes all around :D
Ziggy and Gio - I'm particularly happy to see (and eventually see) some updates from you. Y'all know how much I like seeing happy, healthy, mature snakes.
All of this has made waiting for my Papuan torture - particularly because I've seen some very pretty caramel coastals that I could easily pick up along with them. I probably won't - I should just start off with one carpet and see how things go, and a full grown coastal is probably/technically something I should have a spotter around for - but the more primitive side of my brain has been saying "me want two new pretty snakes to spoil!" :P
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Looking really bright yellow today, so beautiful. I look forward to seeing lots more.
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A good read related to feeding and growth.
https://www.snakesociety.nl/jaargang...%20spilota.pdf
I wish there was more information on this subject. Hopefully Nick and Justin have covered more in the upcoming book.
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Zombie critter [emoji3444]
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Love the substrate. I use the same!
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Morellia Madness
Posted this in another thread. Not necessarily Morelia specific, but it is Morelia Python Radio. One of the most engaging, entertaining, and informative episodes I’ve listened too. And they’ve set a consistently high bar for a decade. 10th season airing weekly. WOW! Will certainly need to re-listen multiple times and learn from it continuously.
Find your passions and follow them, folks. I’ve found Morelia after close to two decades of admiring, and while things can always change, Morelia and Boas do it for me. I know there will be ebbs and flows of change in decades to come, but it feels incredible to have the knowledge, research, trials, errors, theories, observations, questions, answers, speculations, phenotypes, localities, pedigrees, species, subspecies, etc that are available to herpetoculture at this moment in time.
Here’s to finding what you love and doing it for a lifetime. Cheers, y’all
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Oh yeah, this was my favorite recent episode, and probably one of favorites overall! This deep of a dive into snake biology and life history is what I look for nowadays.
The next food order is going to look a little bit different thanks to this episode. A little bit of poking around yesterday revealed that Layne Labs and a few other places sell day-old quail that are the same weight as a hopper mouse, so it looks like the kids will be getting a taste of avian prey sooner rather than later. I'd like to give Reptilinks a try as well, but they have a $75 minimum order requirement, and I'm not sure I want to order that much product without knowing my kids will eat it. That might change if day-old quail chicks come back in stock there, though, and I can split the cost between links and whole prey.
Ideally, my combined Boa-Morelia freezer would contain a mix of different rodents, birds, and even reptilian prey (ie. the iguana meat Reptilinks). It's hard finding all of that stuff in one place, though, as is shopping for a diversity of prey items for just a few snakes. Even the small quantity packages are still on the large size. For example: for one boa, one pack of mice/rats and one pack of chicks may be a year's worth of food, and just two types of prey isn't a particularly diverse diet. It sure would be nice if reptile food suppliers offered mixed prey packs...
On the topic of diet and prey diversity: a falconry website I liked to frequent in my wannabe days has a great page on prey types, their nutritional benefits, and creating a balanced diet. Granted, it's for raptors, but I think the information can be valuable for reptile keepers as well.
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Stalking the floor from her perches as she does every single night, surely thinking “this game trail sucks!” [emoji23]
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These guys are so busy at dusk, they crack me up
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So the flight from Spokane didn't phase this girl in the slightest!
Meet Pandora, a 2020 Papuan carpet produced by Nick Mutton. She seems to be settling in well and enjoying her new box. I'll get around to creating her thread in a bit, but y'all can enjoy one of the few non-blurry photos I have of her for now. :)
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Very pretty! It's been some years since a snake was shipped to me, & she (my Aussie spotted python) came out the same way...apparently quite unbothered. :cool:
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Papuan Carpet for March in the MPR calendar and finally built a frame for the etching I got from my friend last fall. Bonus pic of my male brissy who looks a tad dull and may be headed into a shed cycle soon.
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There's gotta be a better word than "dump" (even in "photo dump") for such eye-candy. :w00t: Perhaps "Envy Alert" would work?
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Beautiful beastie!! And even more so in the light!
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Cool set of photos, it appears you have some talent in the art field.
Having a stunner Brissy probably helps too.
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Awsome pics jm
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More Madness.
I'm adding the most up to date head shots of the two Morelia I have here.
The head of a coastal mix.
Jewel.
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I had to put a crappy indoor shot in here to even things out. Her sunny picture is nicer than Kev's cloudy photos.
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The head of a Bredli.
Kevin.
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Both looking awsome Gio
Great pics too
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