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.

Samantha and Casper

Here is a picture of my Samantha holding Casper the Albino Ball Python. She has her own ball python named "Shane", I'll get a picture of her snake up soon.

"Albino ball pythons lack all dark pigment, they are amelanistic (
containing no melanin )........a normal colored ball python is brown, black with some hints of white.........take away the dark pigments........and the brown turns yellow..........the black turns white...........and the white stays white.........throw in some cool pink eyes.............and you have the "Classic" Albino Ball. "
- Ralph Davis Reptiles

I quoted the above from Ralph Davis Reptiles website because I couldn't explain it any better myself.

Casper was born in the earlier part of this year (2006) and I'm hoping to breed him to my sons normal ball python (Lady) in 2008.

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)

Brown Snake

Northern Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi) Here is a picture of one of the three snakes I found while moving a pile of lumber in my yard.

I was very excited when I found them. I know what you are thinking boring little brown snake (not much thought put in the name either), but I don't get many snakes in my yard and when I do they aren't exciting looking ones like a coral snake or a California Kingsnake. I have to take what I can get.

When I found this little critter I thumbed through my National Audubon Society Field Guide field guide to identify it. I was very happy to find out they eat SLUGS. I have been battling slugs in my gardens for years. They are welcomed in my yard anytime. I wonder if I can buy a "herd" of them to fend off the slugs since my wife won't let me get chickens to do the job.

TomTom

Here is TomTom one of my JayaPura Green Tree Pythons s/he started out as a red and has blossemed into a beautiful green and black speckaled snake with bright white markings. Not sure s/he is done changing yet but I would love him/er to stop right here. I have had TomTom for one year now and s/he is a great eater and very docile unless it feeding time then you need to count your fingers.

Here's Lucy

Here is one of my most treasured snakes, a "Canary Island" Green Tree Python. I acquired her with "Ricky" in January of this year (2006) and are looking forward to the day I can put her and Ricky together. Of course one of the babies will have to be called Little Ricky.

They are reportedly from the island of Kofiau which is part of the Boo Islands. They are a newly discovered form of the Green Tree Python (Morelia Virdis). People are just now starting to hatch out the first CBB (Captive Born and Breed) babies. The Breeding pairs are all (as far as I know) Wild Caught.