I have a snake question: Blood Pythons

[ChrisNCT]

Hello. Hopefully someone can help me here. I have aquired a snake that I am not familiar with. I cannot find too much info them out there.

It is a Blood Python (Short Tailed Python). It is about 24" long or so. Still young, and docile.

What kind of ballpark to these snakes run..are we talking hundreds of dollars? I seem to find some one various oddball sites for like 350.00 each. Can this be true?

 

[stemloop]

Hi Chris,

I'm by no means an expert, but I'll tell you what I know (or think I know!). Bloods need HIGH humidity. Like practically sitting in water is ideal. The catch is, the water has to be clean. Most folks aren't into doing water changes on their snake cages! If they get too dry, then they will have difficulty shedding, and can also become impacted. I think there are at least 2 "subspecies":

remainder of post EDITED to remove text which basically came outta my a$$. my memory sucks and I should have confirmed with some quick research. sorry!!

Todd

 

[FryLock]

Ok this can get confusing P.c.curtus are the Black Bloods the smallist of the curtus they are very dark brown with black markings and some times gray heads the best one's are almost jet black, next are the Borneo short tails P.c.breitensteini (i have two 6' gals) there brown and yellow marked with some black and orange there the mid sized one's, last are the snakes they get the name "Blood Python" from P.c.brongersmai from main land S.E.A and parts of Sumatra there the guys that can be red but not all of them are there the big guys at 6'-7' (but they dont offen get over 6') mine sit then there baths until the water starts to get a bit iffy then i move them out (i have a bath in the other side ready) keep em hot with drinking bowl and som thing they can sit it for a wash and and ur away a lot more here http://forums.kingsnake.com/forum.php?catid=6

 

[woijchik89]

sounds cool.....got any pics?

 

[FryLock]

Here one of my P.c.breitensteini having a bath

 

[FryLock]

Chris im not up on there price's State side now if you check out some of the breeders on the link i think you will get good C/B of any race for less then $350 (except very top end reds and morphs).

 

[Joe]

You should be able to find a CBB blood python for a lot less than $350. Check some of the ads on kingsnake.com

Joe

 

[ChrisNCT]

Here are pics of the python itself

Here are some pics that I am linking to on anther forum. Lets hope they show up!

The condition and setups in my garage are perfect for many animals. I curretly have 10 Tarantulas, 5 Scorpions, 2 bunnies, 2 Ball Pythons, 10 mice for breeding, approx. 4000 adult crickets, approx. 2000 pinhead crickets and now this short tailed blood sumatran python. The temp are 75 at night and 85 during the day. The humitidy varies between 65% to 80 %.

Any idea on what I can get for this snake if I decide to sell it?

 

[stemloop]

Ok this can get confusing P.c.curtus are the Black Bloods the smallist of the curtus they are very dark brown with black markings and some times gray heads the best one's are almost jet black, next are the Borneo short tails P.c.breitensteini (i have two 6' gals) there brown and yellow marked with some black and orange there the mid sized one's, last are the snakes they get the name "Blood Python" from P.c.brongersmai from main land S.E.A and parts of Sumatra there the guys that can be red but not all of them are there the big guys at 6'-7' (but they dont offen get over 6') mine sit then there baths until the water starts to get a bit iffy then i move them out (i have a bath in the other side ready) keep em hot with drinking bowl and som thing they can sit it for a wash and and ur away a lot more here http://forums.kingsnake.com/forum.php?catid=6

Thanks, Frylock, for clearing that up. As I said, it's been awhile for me, and I'm no expert. I had forgotten all about brongersmai, and even reversed what I thought I knew about the other 2!

 

[FryLock]

stemloop np you should see the foul ups i make on spiders since started to get back in them half the subfamilys have changed let alone the species names