A few tableland carpets

[Derek Roddy]

I hatched a super nice clutch of my Tableland Carpets this year. These are a few I'm going to hold onto for a little while...see what they turn into.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/Carpets/DSCN4441.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/Carpets/DSCN4441.jpg.html)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/Carpets/DSCN4444-1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/Carpets/DSCN4444-1.jpg.html)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/Carpets/DSCN4370.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/Carpets/DSCN4370.jpg.html)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/Carpets/DSCN4360.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/Carpets/DSCN4360.jpg.html)

Here's mom...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/Carpets/DSCN4358.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/Carpets/DSCN4358.jpg.html)

Cheers,
D

[drumcrush]

Wow, very cool! I want a carpet sooo bad haha

[Donnie]

Really nice selection there. It would be hard to give any of those up, good luck with deciding the eventual keepers :)

[Terranaut]

Wow does mom ever look like my female.
I love seeing adult carpets, people tend not to show off their adult snakes if they are mudded out at all.
Those babies are awesome. If they have that much colour now they will be awesome in a year. Congrats.

[shaunyboy]

all beauty's mate

pic number 3 is my favorite

cheers shaun

[Sublimeballs]

How close are these geographically in the wild to coastals? Their pattern this similar to my coastals, not the colors these have a lot more red to them. I know coastals are highly vairiable. I was hoping this could help me narrow down whereabout my females genetics could have originated from. I understand I can't know for certain but would love to have and idea.

[shaunyboy]

How close are these geographically in the wild to coastals? Their pattern this similar to my coastals, not the colors these have a lot more red to them. I know coastals are highly vairiable. I was hoping this could help me narrow down whereabout my females genetics could have originated from. I understand I can't know for certain but would love to have and idea.

Jungles are found in North Queensland and Cape York Peninsula

Coastal are found along the eastern slopes of The Great Dividing Range throught coastal Queensland,from Cape York Peninsula to slightly south of Coffs Harbour,in northern New South Wales

so Coastal ground covers the Jungle ground mate

cheers shaun

[Mikoh4792]

Nice! are your adults huge(like athertons are known for)?

[Derek Roddy]

Cheers everyone....
How close are these geographically in the wild to coastals? Their pattern this similar to my coastals, not the colors these have a lot more red to them. I know coastals are highly vairiable. I was hoping this could help me narrow down whereabout my females genetics could have originated from. I understand I can't know for certain but would love to have and idea.

We'll these are about as close to you can get to the original animals that were brought into the US legally over 30 years ago. The person I had gotten these from in the late 80s had gotten them through a friend who owned a serpentarium in the 70s. The original animals were purchased off a zoo in which Hank Molt used to be aquatinted with as "Atherton Tablelands Carpet Pythons".
The tablelands is a huge area...about the size of SC and most of georgia...so geographacal differences are going to be huge. That said, these animals more resemble the jungle forms found just west of the coast and east of Atherton.

One thing I think keepers miss is the fact that coastals and Jungles are genetically the same animal and, are no different other than habitat "forms" that occur from ecosystem to ecosystem.

Nice! are your adults huge(like athertons are known for)?

They're like any other snake.....they grow in regards to what type of food they're eating.
The animals around Atherton grow bigger as most of that land has been developed for farming and therefor...larger food items (rats..eating human made grains) are in bigger numbers...causing the snakes to grow larger as a result.

It's the same in captivity. This line of animals under my care get about 5 feet. the same animals in another friends care (who feeds more than me)....his are 8 feet.
All in the feeding...in captivity and the wild.

D

[ScalelessTime]

Wow. They are definitely beautiful.

[sharthun]

Awesome Snakes!:cool:

[Sublimeballs]

Thanks Shaun and Derek, it's nice to get info from people I feel confident in trusting. Ill have to post up some pics of my little girl soon for everyone. Gorgeous carpets Derek, what do these sell for? I like the idea of the purest possible local I can find; especially with the Aussies seeing how they will only be more watered down in the future. Can you post more pics of the parents?

[marvelfreak]

Stunning Carpets. To me the babies look kind of like Irain Jaya.

[red ink]

Nice one Derek.. congrats on a great looking clutch mate.

[shaunyboy]

Nice one Derek.. congrats on a great looking clutch mate.

^^^^^
it's good to see your still around mate

cheers shaun

[Derek Roddy]

Thanks Shaun and Derek, it's nice to get info from people I feel confident in trusting. Ill have to post up some pics of my little girl soon for everyone. Gorgeous carpets Derek, what do these sell for? I like the idea of the purest possible local I can find; especially with the Aussies seeing how they will only be more watered down in the future. Can you post more pics of the parents?

Well, with this stuff (lineage, pure, etc) you kinda got to go with what you believe, see and experience. Being that I have ben in the Carpet Python game for 25 years, I've seen things long since forgotten in the carpet python "world".

Being that I've had these animals for so long (88) tells me that I have one of the "purest" lines of carpets that exist in the US. At least the longest running "untainted" line of Carpets that as close as you can get to the original animals first brought into the US.

And, being that this line of animals have been here in the US since the mid 70s...stands to reason that the blood is likely to be in just about all the carpets established lines in the US....based off the blood being here so long and the small amount of breeding that was done up until the morphs started popping up.

I only have one single male at the moment.PM me if you're interested.

And, here are the parents...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/Carpets/DSCN2568.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/Carpets/DSCN2568.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/Carpets/DSCN2571.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/Carpets/DSCN2571.jpg.html)

Grand Parents...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/Carpets/rudi.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/Carpets/rudi.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/Carpets/bert3.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/Carpets/bert3.jpg.html)

And great grandparents...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/Carpets/orgathertonpair.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/Carpets/orgathertonpair.jpg.html)

Cheers,
D

[LadyWraith]

Beautiful snakes. So cool getting to hear such tracked history on these guys.

[Wama]

One big happy family....Very nice