New carpet

I just got a 7ish foot carpet from a co worker. I don't know a ton about her specifically but I really look forward to working with her. Pictures to come :)

sorry but thread is worthless without pics ;)




congrats though

I know. He gave me to her in a big glass aquarium with paper towels and a heat lamp. Im going to finish setting a vision cage I have for her and take some pics

Piiics pics pics pics!!!

The crowd is getting restless for the presentation of the pics. ;)


<< Waits patiently(and anxiously) in the corner for pics of the 7 foot beauty which will be shown to the forum.

Carpets = :love:

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A little stuck shed on her. Ill let her get settled in for a few days then offer her a meal.

She looks great! Congrats!

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A little stuck shed on her. Ill let her get settled in for a few days then offer her a meal.

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I wouldn't worry about her eating. She is very well nourished. I bet she's a great eater. A little more humidity with your Vision and she'll be golden. She's really gorgeous! She looks like a Diamond/Jungle intergrade and very nice one too! I wish I could get lucky like that! :)

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I wouldn't worry about her eating. She is very well nourished. I bet she's a great eater. A little more humidity with your Vision and she'll be golden. She's really gorgeous! She looks like a Diamond/Jungle intergrade and very nice one too! I wish I could get lucky like that! :)

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x2 im still new to carpets but thats what I was seeing too looks like a fairly high % of diamond at that.

Very nice! :gj::gj: Definitely some diamond in that girl.

Nice pick up!!

Beautiful girl!

Sooooooo pretty. Gratz on the pickup. :gj: :gj: :)


ty for the pics. :D

Can't tell by your pic, is the grapevine tall enough for her to climb? My jcp loves his branches and spends most of his time hanging around except when he is ready to shed, he goes in his hide. My jcp will only eat f/t rats from his branches as I dangle them in front of him. Btw, great looking girl...

Not really tall enough to climb. I'm going to set something up for her to climb on today or tomorrow

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Can't tell by your pic, is the grapevine tall enough for her to climb? My jcp loves his branches and spends most of his time hanging around except when he is ready to shed, he goes in his hide. My jcp will only eat f/t rats from his branches as I dangle them in front of him. Btw, great looking girl...

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They definitely take advantage of climbing, but it's a myth that they have to. Many breeders keep their carpets in tubs with just substrate and a water bowl and they breed and live long lives. Bob Clark addressed this in Reptiles magazine a couple years back.

So ive had her for a little now and after holding her and watching her ive come to realize theres something a little bit wrong with her. She kind of rolls a little bit and acts a little bit goofy :\ My friend says she may have been dropped or something at one point in her life (not the person I got the snake from.) Now I just tried to feed her and after a few minutes she bites the rat by the side and doesn't really do a good job of coiling it but basically just bite down on the rat while its screaming. Eventually the rat got away and is now sitting in the corner. Any one have any idea what could be going on with her?

Do you know what she was eating before? Some of the snakes I've had in the past that were used to f/t reacted that way to live rats. I've got an Irian Jaya carpet right now that eats f/t mice that reacts that way when I try to get her on rats with live ones. I don't know about the odd behavior. Some snakes act like that when they've been exposed to certain chemicals or exposed to high temps.

She is very nice, I really like her. :gj:

I spoke to the guy I got it from and he said she's always been like that since he got her. He got her years ago from someone else. Maybe the prey was too little but I couldn't Imagine what happened with a larger rat. It could have done some damage.

She kind of moves like a spider BP wobble. She grabbed it the second time and kind of pressed her body against the rat and the side of the cage until the rat got away again. The third time she kind of got it and piled her body on top of the rat and suffocated it. Still not a really good coil. I felt terrible for the poor rat. I asked the previous owner and he said she always would coil it for 10 minutes or so and eat it a few minutes later.

Again maybe it was too early to try and feed her after her move or maybe the rat was too small and she couldn't get around it ( wasn't looking like she was trying to hard

Below are pictures of the second and third "coils". Although the third looks decent from the picture the section of the snake on the top is rich after her head And doesn't really ever go around the rat.

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Its sorta hard to tell from those pics but that rat looks way too small for her. Maybe she was confused lol

I feed F/T but sometimes my Carpets will take their meal really slow and kinda cuddle with it for a bit. Other times they will hit hard and coil.

She might have neuro issues if someone left her in a cage that was to hot..?

It's also recommended to keep Diamonds at cooler temps. She has a high influence of Diamond. Might be something to look into.

The first thing I thought of was those BP threads that go " I found my heat tape at 130 and now my BP is acting weird" when I first saw it. She's a nice snake, I felt bad mostly for the poor rat.

I will try something a little bigger next time as the last owner said it hadn't happened to him before.

What size would you say this girl should eat.

How big is she?
Carpets can take huge meals but I feed them a meal that only leaves a small lump. Every 7-10 days.

I bump them up to something a little bigger before breeding.

My big girls, 6'-7' get bigger side med. / smaller side large rats (sometimes chickens)
Then get bumped up to bigger end of large before breeding.

She's just about 7 feet. I'm pretty sure she could take a large rat and not leave too much of a lump. I fed her probably a smaller size of a medium.

I feed my 8ft Jungle female and 7ft Jungle male jumbo rats. The female every week, the male every other week, but they are breeders. The last pic of her successful attempt with the rat looks normal for a carpet. They are extremely strong for their size and don't coil as much as some do. 3skulls may be on to some thing with the Diamond temp thing. My Champagne BP and Irian carpet female both did something similar when I got them and both got over it. If was was exposure to high temps for a short time they do often recover from it.

Yeah I'm watching her temps now and have them what I feel to be appropriate. Not sure what they were before they had her in a big glass tank with a red heat bulb on a dome lamp with a built in dimmer. Im pretty sure they didnt have a temp gun like me though.

As far as the constricting, in the last pic she doesnt actually have any part of her body around the rat. The rat is against the aspen and she is laying on top of it. Maybe with a larger and stronger meal she will feel the need to wrap it up. With this smaller meal she kind of bit it and dragged it around a few times.

Ill continue to update this thread with her progress and any updates.

Yes please do. She is a beautiful snake.

I'm hoping she she pulls out of her issue, what ever it is.

Carpets are cross bred with other carpets so often it can actually be hard to know exactly what you have in them nowadays. Looks like you could have some diamond in it. Sounds to me like you might have some jag in it. If it does have the wobbles(neuro issues) like a BP that happens occasionally in jag carpets. That also can give them trouble eatting. I have a friend with a wobbler diamond/jag cross and he can get it to eat but it takes more work then any of his other snakes.