Quote Originally Posted by Royal_Rodents View Post
not to jack your post or anything but in your opinion are coastel carpets tempermental or relaxed and what do you house the buggers in
I my personal experiance with a small group of 2.2 adults and dozens of hatchlings/yearlings over the years they have a fairly typical python temperment. Some can be nippy for the first few months but all of mine outgrew that phase fairly quickly. My adults all had a strong feeding response, but once they felt the snake hook under them you could almost see them relax and sort of snap out of hunting mode. Once out of the cage mine were active but very easy to handle and they didn't seem to get spooked very easily. Like all snakes, there are individual variation on temperment but on the whole I highly recommend coastal carpets, especially if you want a BIG python without the hassels of keeping the giants.

I kept my adult females in 4ft Neodesha cages and my males in 3 footers. Older bigger males would need larger cages but do to family issues I had to sell my entire collection before my males reached that size.

Here is a photo of one of my female coastals on top of her nest box just waiting to drop a nice pile of eggs back in 2001!


Here is my other female breeding with one of the males back in 2000.


I hope I was able to help with your question. I know if I had the space right now coastals would definately be in my collection again.

I aslo want to thank everyone for the kind words and I will post updates if there is any progress with my chondros.

Thanks, Kevin