Are Carpets and Green Tree Pythons the new ball pythons?

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they have more elaborate husbandry requirements (arboreal caging and high humidity levels) and because they aren't ideal snakes for beginner keepers and therefore there are fewer potential buyers.

I'm going to have to disagree here. I'd say that carpet pythons are hardier and easier to keep than ball pythons. I've been a proponent that "high humidity" requirements are a myth, and Nick Mutton's/Justin Julander's new book opens with a few myths.. with a high humidity requirement being among them.

Carpet pythons make for excellent first snakes.

Now with GTPs.. I don't keep them and have no opinions formed.