Sweet Tara Eggs pipping

Another small clutch hatched this week. This is from my Sweet Tara x Charles clutch. Charles is a Jungle Carpet Python a Sweet Tara is a Diamond/Jungle Carpet Python. I love this picture with it little baby snake tongue sticking out.

Swing Low Sweet Charriot

Here is one of the babies swinging on a branch.

More Pictures of the Babies

Here are some more pictures of the Caroline x Jaws babies from this year.

Love Is In The Air

Here is one of my Jungle Carpet Breeding Pairs for this year. Caroline is the one on the bottom and Jaws is the one on top. Jaws is the snake that made me go crazy with snakes. I had a couple of ball pythons years ago and I saw Jaws in a local pet shop and 60 snakes latter ...

Note to my wife ... Remember I sold 8 baby snakes so 60 is fairly reasonable. Right?

Jungle Carpet Python Babies

My little pretties here were born (hatched) on June 6 2006. Born on 666 and all have forked tounges, SPOOKY. These are 4 of the 10 that hatched together. The Sire is George and the Dam is Gracie. They all have shed at least twice and have fed over 15 times and are quite healthy. They have been to the vets to be sexed and checked out. I am holding back the other six for now. I really lucked out on this clutch. I got fivr boys and five gals.

Nancy the Irian Jaya Carpet Python

Irian Jaya Carpet Python (Morelia spilota variegata)

I bought two of these from High Plains Herps in Colorado last year. Great people to deal with. I also bought my pair of Canary Island GTPs and a pair of Jungle Carpet pythons from them.

I am hoping to mate her with "Ronnie" in a year or two. This is an older picture of her. She is getting big and her markings and colors are stunning.

These guys are a slender elongate python. Adult generally average about 4-5? feet in total length. The maximum size of this form approaches 6 1/2 feet (2 meters) in total length making them are very manageable snake.

I feed her weaned rats every week without any problems. I prefer to feed all my snakes rats when they are big enough. Especially the Jungle Carpet Pythons (see earlier posts)

Jaws the Jungle Carpet Python

Here is the little fellow (5.75") that started my going nuts with snakes. I have had snakes for 20 years off and on but once I got him I couldn't stop myself. Now I have 11 Jungle Carpet pythons, not including the 10 babies. I love the contrasting colors of black and yellow on them.

This Jungle Carpet Python (His name is Jaws) will be (hopefully) with "Sweet Tara" this upcoming breeding season.

Jaws prefers (only will eat) mice and lots of them. He eats about 6 jumbo mice a week. I have to no avail tried to get him to eat rats. I have a few other Jungle with the same preference. My recommendation to anyone with a JCP is to get one that is eating rats or buy a baby JCP and get them on rats as soon as you can. I had very little trouble getting the babies (George and Gracie's clutch) switching over to rats. All the babies eat rats now. All you need to do is wait for them to get big enough to swallow them safely. For me its seems to be about six to eight weeks old.

The Jungle Carpet Python (Morelia spilota cheynei) The carpet python (Morelia spilota), is a species of medium to large semi-arboreal pythons, usually maxing out at 5' males and 7' for females. They can often found near people where they perform a useful service by eating rats and other rodents. They are mostly nocturnal, but can also be diurnal. They are indigenous to Australia and New Guinea

Here is a link for more information on this awesome breed of snake: Python Pete