Well, thanks for your input. Good to hear I don't have the only stubborn JCP about eating live only. I also know what you man about the way they attack prey. Vicious and very quick. I dangle the victem by the tail with tongs and am amazed at the speed of the strike. That said she is a sweatheart with being handled etc. No fear, not nervous and never offers to bite or even get in any way defensive. Over all a great snake.

On the activity level I can only guess but this is my instinct based on my experience with many snakes over about twenty five years. Generally an active snake is hungry, looking for a mate or is simply in need of something. When all their needs are met they tend to just sit where ever they find the most comfortable temps. If he is on the cool side that is just what he wants at the moment, perhaps your house temps are a bit higher and that has raised the viv temps?

The reality is all snake have periods of calm and periods of heavy activity for no apparent reason. I am curently keeping about forty odd snakes and of those I have had for more then an year just about all weather hungry or not have gone on spurts of activity and spruts of doing absoultely nothing almost no movement at all for days.

My JCP in particular does what you mention often in the evening she comes out, cruises a bit then climbs into her PVC tree and chills and then some time during the night she seems to go back into her hide. Right now both my JCP and my pair of spotted pythons are all spending most of their hide time in the cool hides even with full bellies. So may be it is just the time for that for Aussy Pythons.

Anyway glad to meet you and ask me anything you like about carpets, I am not as experienced with them as many other species but it is fun to talk and it is a great way to learn,