My new Bredli

I went to firexpo this past weekend. I have been wanting to get a carpet and was leaning towards a jungle/diamond mix. The show did not have much in the way of carpets. I finally checked out this female and decided to get her instead. I think i made an awesome decision. She is in shed, had to ride around in my pocket to target, cracker barrel, stay in the htel bathroom, and finally the 3 hour ride home. Although alitle shy, she has been curious and has not tried to strike. I got her from ahp exotics.

I am leaning towards naming her Evelyn.

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Very nice

What a pretty girl :) I like the name Evelyn.


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I am going to offer food tomorrow and see what happens. I can't. Wait to she how she looks after her shed. I wanted a name to go along with her having the markings on her face that reminds me of a skull. My wife suggested Evelyn from He-man.

Success of feeding today. I offered the first mouse and she was hesitant at first till she figured out what it was. She ate that one kind of slower than i thought she would. I offerd a second and she snatched that one like a fat kid taking candy!

I wanted to try a rat but no one had any rat pups sized for her. I will order some but i have read that it can be a pain to switch a carpet from mice to rats so if you have any advice on doing so please share.
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First of all congrats on your find. Get you a frozen rat thaw it out and rub the mouse a little,with it before you feed it to the snake. Try increasing the amount of scent of the rat you put on the mouse. Until she gets use to the smell and then you should be able to switch her over. This has worked for me with mouse eating ball pythons in the past.

Very nice

I gave her the 2nd mouse and then had to go get kids from school. I took her floor hide out so when i got back she was perched on her branch. I will have to get a pic. A facebook member of a carpet python group i am in said that her bredli had no trouble switching from mice to rats. I think i will order them and start just offering them and see what happens and go from there.

My carpet is a garbage disposal lol she will eat anything you put in there but i feed live

I hope mine will be too. I feed frozen/thawed and that is what Evelyn took today. The breeder does frozen. He had a male bredli for like $100 because he was being a pain and still only took live.

Since she is still a juvie, i am going to do a 5 day feed cycle for a while.
Here is her on the branch still now after she was feed this am.
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OK,, Now we're talking!

I remember you wanting one of these and you did it right!

I like the Bredli choice. They get big, and thick.

Carpets can take HUGE meals, and there are a few well know breeders who will push the limits with no worries.

I have a 1 year plus coastal/jungle or coastal/diamond. I started her on rat fuzzies, then moved to small rats, and the other day she took a medium rat that the royal refused.

I will not always use the larger sizes, but they can and will take something easily 3 times their girth. I also would not push it until you have a well established, settled animal. I know it's not your first rodeo so you'll be up to speed quickly.

I highly recommend THE COMPLETE CARPET PYTHON. Nick Mutton and Justin Julander authored it and it's one of the best in the "Complete" series of snake books.

I want to hear how this compares to your Brooksi for activity and display purposes.

I'm stoked for you.

ENJOY!!!

If fed the brooks today an actually just had to set the fuzzy down so he could find it by smell cuz it was freaking him out with me holding it. He is bout blind as a bat due to shedding. He still hides but i have seen him out a few times during the night and day. I think adding the fake plants helped out. He loves his paper towel tubes and is just about all the time in one.

Evelyn had been in the hide til today. I had the hide out while feeding so she perched afterwards. I had to feed and run. I had to pick up kids so when i saw that she had the second mouse and was going good i left.

I hope to build an enclosure and plan on going hunting for a corner funtiure piece to turn into the enclosue. I might see if i can make it multi funtional as well.
Of all the pics and snakes that i have seen at shows, carpets are a "hey look at me" snake. I think my brooks will not be this way for a long while since he is still so young.

Love bredli! That's great, cograts on the pickup.

Also, seriously, just feed her a large-ish every seven days. The carpet complex in general is very efficient with the noms. (And I second picking up the Complete Carpet Python, it is a fantastic book.)

One really cool thing you have going, is the fact you have the Brooksi which is a diurnal snake, the royal which is nocturnal, and the carpet which is nocturnal, but somewhat active during the day at some points.

Great collection of 3 IMO!

I have been waiting all week to hold Evelyn. Luckly I worked every day but Thursday( 5, 24 hour shifts!) so that helped out. I got home today to find a COMPLETE shed. After tending to my other 2, i got her out. She is still shy but is all over place and checking things out.

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Love it!

Those colors will get better with age too!

I need to get some pics with my wife's camera. The one on my tablet does not do her justice. He reds are almost a bronze color to me and as you get closer to her tail it darkens to black.

Evelyn has been coming out of her hide and staying out. She has been on her branch often. I broke out the wife's camera and got a pic and then one for feeding while holding onto her branch. She is still pretty shy though.
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I got some adjustable rods to add some more climbing surface for evelyn. Plus i wanted to provide more that was not directly underthe heat lamp. Apparently, the new rods are a hit. I put 2 next to each other since they are small.

I think she hissedat me yesterday when i got her out but she did not try and strike.

Today will be the first try to feed her with rat pups too.

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I got some adjustable rods to add some more climbing surface for evelyn. Plus i wanted to provide more that was not directly underthe heat lamp. Apparently, the new rods are a hit. I put 2 next to each other since they are small.

I think she hissedat me yesterday when i got her out but she did not try and strike.

Today will be the first try to feed her with rat pups too.

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Can't let this thread die. Things are looking good! It's one of the more entertaining species of snakes IMO. I love the fact they climb and perch but have no issues being on the ground either.

Excellent display animals, beautiful colors and patterns and a nice size.

I really like these and you've got a beauty!

Keep in mind these guys can take larger meals. Mine is on small rats, and has taken a medium at just under 1.5 years old. You'll be up to smalls soon I'll bet.

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Can't let this thread die. Things are looking good! It's one of the more entertaining species of snakes IMO. I love the fact they climb and perch but have no issues being on the ground either.

Excellent display animals, beautiful colors and patterns and a nice size.

I really like these and you've got a beauty!

Keep in mind these guys can take larger meals. Mine is on small rats, and has taken a medium at just under 1.5 years old. You'll be up to smalls soon I'll bet.

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I post to myself if i have to lol.

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Can't let this thread die. Things are looking good! It's one of the more entertaining species of snakes IMO. I love the fact they climb and perch but have no issues being on the ground either.

Excellent display animals, beautiful colors and patterns and a nice size.

I really like these and you've got a beauty!

Keep in mind these guys can take larger meals. Mine is on small rats, and has taken a medium at just under 1.5 years old. You'll be up to smalls soon I'll bet.

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I will post to myself if i have to lol. She took her rat pup today and ate it hanging with no trouble at all. I am happy that i hopefully did not or will have any feeding trouble.
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I've had a few posts where I'm my biggest fan too LOL!

Yeah, I think once they are rolling, feeding issues are rare. The reptile store I frequent has 2 Bredli's and they are tanks. They are one of the larger Ssp of carpet, and seem to like to chow down.

Nice pictures. I'll bet you're excited every time you check on it!

And that shed really made the colors pop.

Yea i have serpent withdrawls when i am at work (48 hour shift) and usually can not wait to ineract with the 3 that i have when i get home. I have to hold or do whatever with Evelyn last due her being quarantined.

Well I am a huge bredli fan they are my favorite species. Nice to see other Bredli lovers on this forum. It seems like morelia do not get much love here. Bredli are so beautiful in my opinion. Your set up looks really cool. I am in process in building new enclosures for my pair. Let's see more pictures.

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Well I am a huge bredli fan they are my favorite species. Nice to see other Bredli lovers on this forum. It seems like morelia do not get much love here. Bredli are so beautiful in my opinion. Your set up looks really cool. I am in process in building new enclosures for my pair. Let's see more pictures.

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I actually was leaning more towards getting a jungle /jungle diamond mix but when i got the green light from the boss, the selection at the fireepxo was limited. Not wanting to lose the chance for another snake i got the bredli instead. The species was on my list to get one day. I am happy it worked out the way that it did though because she is pretty awesome but still somewhat shy. The boss does not know yet that they get kind of big lol.

I think other subspecies of the morelia are represented here but no so much for the bredli i think or members are/have not been talking about them for some reason. I joined a couple of morelia facebook groups and they even have slower traffic and many members are from down under.

I am about to have a month off from work because my 3rd rugrat is due this month. So when i can emerge from the newborn sleep coma that they can cause i plan on working on figuring out the what, how, & where for a permanent enclosure for her.

What, i am taking a bath here! (Do bredli's like to soak?)
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I have never seen either of mine do this. That's not to say they haven't though.

This is the first time i have seen her do this. My wife told me this is the 2nd or 3rd time she has seen her soak. Wheni can do day i will get her out to hold her and also check her out.

I'll check my carpet python book, but I believe I went through a chapter that stated one of the Ssp soaked and had a habit of eliminating it's waste in the water bowl.

Have you noticed any waste within a few days of the soaks?

My coastal has not been spotted fully soaking however one night she had her tail end in the bowl and the next day it was a toilet.

As a whole I don't think soaking is a typical behavior.

Check out temps and humidity in case something was accidentally adjusted.

If you suspect those damn mites, jump on the procedures to find and eliminate them.

She has a "present" for me when i get home from work like clock work. I feed her the day before my shift and when i get hole 2 days later it is waiting for pick up. She does not leave in her water bowel which is nice of her to do. Lol

Yey for quarentine. I think Evelyn might have mites and that is why she is soaking. I have tried looking on her but she does not hold still so i checked her water bowel. I saw little black dots in the water so i take it that those are the mites. I read that they look like little flakes of pepper.

I go to work tomorrow so i plan on putting a larger water bowel in with her to make it easy for her to soak til i get home and can clean. I need to order some pam too.

Cleaned Evelyn's home today to help with the mites. Found alot on the outside of her home on the card table that the enclosure sits on, kinda weird. That makes me wonder if the tank was the "infected" that brought the mites home. I had a feeling though that coming from a large event such as firexpo i would get my first case of mites.

Evelyn got an olive oil tx and a bath while her home was bleached and then washed with dawn and hot water. Now we have super quarantine mode going on. Still waiting on the pam to arrive in the mail.

She has had a rough day and has actually went in her hide after roaming for a bit.
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Somebody is feeling better....
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I'm sure she will come through fine. Mites sick but it's nothing you can't beat. Good luck!

She looks great. Have you tried provent a mite. It works great for enclosures. Just follow the directions on the can. I use it on a monthly basis as a preventive for my collection.

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She looks great. Have you tried provent a mite. It works great for enclosures. Just follow the directions on the can. I use it on a monthly basis as a preventive for my collection.

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I wish i would have got a pic of her last night after this one was taken. She was really lounged out with her tail hanging down, part of her body under the heat lamp, and her head and neck stretched out like she is in the pic, lol.

Yea my can arrived in the mail the other day. I had already fed her the same day so i had to wait to use it when i got home from work. So Yesterday when i made it home from work, i changed her paper towels with ones that i had treated with pam. I also sprayed some on the table that her cage sits on since i found mites on it as well.

Before I got Evelyn situated, i cleaned my bp's enclosure and I sprayed some for preventive measures. So far basic quarantine measures have kept the mites away from my bp and brooks king. Now that i have some pam, i will use it for prevention as well.

Very nice she is lookin awesome

Here are 3 furniture pieces i have found and one will be come a enclosure for Evelyn. DIY time.

In other news i believe i have won the battle with the mites. I have not seen any dead ones lately on the paper towels. However she has not been perching like normal and has been in her hide. Also she would normally do her buisness a day or 2 after earing but now she is holding it in for some reason.
Temps and all are good.
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I got the wood one with the glass. Evelyn is going to get a new home.
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" Hey, what are you doing? How about a rat?"
Mites are long gone and Evelyn is doing well. Most of the time she is hanging out on her bars.
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I took Evelyn out in the yard to cruise around the other day. She is now in shed and not happy. She struck me twice on the back of my hand, lol.
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Looking good and growing like a weed.

Gorgeous i bet it felt nice

She finally shed and is in a better mood. I weighed her and she tipped the scale at 603g. Here are some pics of her perched with a full belly & a clean home.
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I got in the way of dinner!
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Doesn't look to bad. I haven't ever been bitten by my Bredli I also do not want a full on feeding response bite from one. The muscles on the back of the head of my female look strong. How are you digging her? Also how is that enclosure coming? I am in process of building one myself.

She realized she had me and let go which was worse than the bite. She is pretty cool. I wish she was not a shy as she is but I think time will help with that. The enclosure is dragging along since I have to find time to work on it.

How big is she now? My coastal is about 5' 3" but still thin. She has eaten large rats which seem huge.

Your girl is growing fast!

She was just over 600g the last time I weighed her and I think she is around 4 foot. She grew bigger than I thought she was so she is getting 3-4 weaned rats so I can use them up and the order her some larger rats.

Evelyn just had a good shed so it was time to be weighed. My flash blocked some of the numbers. Plus it was fun keeping her still to be weighed. She tipped the scale at 1071g. It was also time to clean her apartment.
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