Help with ID

[chris73]

This was sold to me a few years ago as a Carpet Python. Naturally, it is, but I suspect it may be a Coastal Carpet Python by it's coloration. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

 

[LPacker79]

Certainly looks like a Coastal to me, but I'm not experienced by any means. My own Coastal is just a yearling. How old and how large is this one?

 

[pitbulllady]

Actually, it looks more like an Irian Jaya(New Guinea)Carpet than either a Coastal or a Jungle. IJ's tend to have really clean white areas and the brown inside the black. If it is a Coastal, it's a really exceptionallly-colored one. I've never seen one with the while so clean and little or no gray. I have a six-foot Coastal male, and he is nowhere near as brightly-colored as this snake, though I've seen some that were a very attractive silvery-gray color. It could also be a hybrid of Coastal and Jungle or Coastal and IJ, since these crosses are very common in captivity.

pitbulllady

 

[chris73]

Actually, it looks more like an Irian Jaya(New Guinea)Carpet than either a Coastal or a Jungle. IJ's tend to have really clean white areas and the brown inside the black. If it is a Coastal, it's a really exceptionallly-colored one. I've never seen one with the while so clean and little or no gray. I have a six-foot Coastal male, and he is nowhere near as brightly-colored as this snake, though I've seen some that were a very attractive silvery-gray color. It could also be a hybrid of Coastal and Jungle or Coastal and IJ, since these crosses are very common in captivity.

pitbulllady

I would've thought the blacks were too intense to be an Irian Jaya. The dealer I bought it from is pretty reputable so I HOPE it's not a hybrid, because that would render it useless to me in a breeding project.

My own Coastal is just a yearling. How old and how large is this one?

This one is approaching 2 years. About 3 1/2 - 4 ft but very slender still. Carpets (at least in my experience) are very slow growers. I'm not into power feeding, if anything I err at too little.