My new irian jaya carpet python

[DennisM]

When I say they are the same, I'm not making the implication that there is no difference between localities, though research points to jungles and coastals sharing identical DNA which could make one come to the conclusion that a jungle is actually a smaller locale of coastal. Once again the study and research is ongoing here.

I should have maybe specified that in captivity, without locality data carpets are pretty much the same snake. When people add IJ to coastal and cross diamond into the mix and originally had a cross of some unknown combo you wind up with a carpet python, and when that happens, a carpet is a carpet. Not even Nick Mutton was able to tell me what my coastal was crossed with when I asked and sent him several pictures. It's a carpet python, was the only conclusion we could come to. There was some speculation as to what was possibly mixed in but certainly nothing was conclusive. Based on that, there is nothing different at all about the care or habits of mine verses any other type carpet python sans a pure diamond.

Maybe that helps with the point I was making about being the same in general.

agreed, a carpet is a carpet once the mixing begins, after all we are talking morelia spilota subspecies. upon mixing it's just morelia spilota.