Wow!

Anyone else see the Albino Carpet Python on The Urban Python's page... I'm speechless, jaw droppingly beautiful.

Check it out!
http://www.theurbanpython.com/feature_home.html

I'm glad they're finally in the US

Those are sweet! That's the first I've seen of those. What kind of carpets are the original albinos? I agree that the albino will launch carpets into the spotlight way more than ever. Even though I love carpets, other than the jags and nicer looking jungles, I'm not a huge fan of their colors. The albino changes everything.

Oh wow! Let the new morphs Begin:twisted:

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Those are sweet! That's the first I've seen of those. What kind of carpets are the original albinos? I agree that the albino will launch carpets into the spotlight way more than ever. Even though I love carpets, other than the jags and nicer looking jungles, I'm not a huge fan of their colors. The albino changes everything.

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I'm guessing they're IJ/WP carpets, cause as far as I know, Australia still has an export ban on most all of their native wildlife.

And their available hets were produced by Irian Jaya dams.

Yeah I saw the Hets at the Anaheim show, Im really really glad that these are here. Its been far to long that Europe and Australia have had all the fun!!!!!

And yes I think I remember Chris Procter saying that they are IJ, and I dont think that there are actually any Albinos here just hets. I may be wrong though.

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I'm glad they're finally in the US

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The Urban python is in Canada...at least they used to be. ;)

Smokin snake!

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I'm guessing they're IJ/WP carpets, cause as far as I know, Australia still has an export ban on most all of their native wildlife.

And their available hets were produced by Irian Jaya dams.

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That's what I would assume, too, but I couldn't find anything that said for sure. It makes sense being IJ hets.

Aren't they darwins?

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Aren't they darwins?

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IJ Darwin Cross isnt it?

Oh right, I remember now. Why is that again, isn't there something like only one known darwin in EU?

check this

http://www.moreliapythons.com/forums...ghlight=albino


now that I think about it....that move might be illegal

So we do have pure darwins. Interesting. I thought there was a legit reason they were hybridized... guess not. Thanks Pat.

yep, personally... i'd rather have pure darwins than albino crosses. that's just me! but they definitely are nice snakes regardless. give carpets a few years and you will see the number of morphs and combos go up exponentially...

also, there are pure darwins in european collections. they surface from time to time and now at least one well known breeder has them... being carpets, easy to breed, they should soon be available in the US in both albino and normal form.

check this out... www.ukpythons.com
paul harris is the man!

Ukpythons.com has some amazing animals! I gotta say I love that axanthic black headed python!!

I think the albinos will be awesome. Don't forget about the granite and caramel IJ's. How many here have seen a granite in person? Pictures don't do these guys justice. I know the IJ jaguars are not pure but I would love to see a jaguar/granite IJ.

I think keeping bloodlines pure is very important and serves a purpose. However, I want to see all of these morphs come together in some combos.

David

I should say localities not bloodlines.

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I should say localities not bloodlines.

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Better!!!!


Although keeping bloodlines pure isnt a bad ideer either.

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I should say localities not bloodlines.

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Subspecies in this case.

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Subspecies in this case.

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Even better. I wasn't sure on the Darwin's.

One thing I've learned in this hobby is that there is a fine line between localities and subspecies and a lot of "localities" are in fact subspecies (like BCI localities). They just lack the research to prove it. I never completely understood the system to designate species.

A few points:

All the existing visual albinos are Pure Darwins, all the available hets in the US, Canada, and Europe are crosses to both IJs and Coastals.

There are a couple of European breeders working with pure darwins but no pure hets or pure albinos have been produced yet.

It will likely be a couple yars still before any pure Darwins become available, hets or normals and when they do they will be quite expensive, But I will certainly be first in line!

Nick