View Full Version : Carpet Python guessing game
Mikoh4792
03-19-14, 10:46 AM
Just want to show the new herpers that you can't really know unless you know the lineage.
I'll reveal the answers after several guesses. These may or may not be hybrids/intergrades
1)https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t31.0-8/1891459_221071244762023_7293658_o.jpg
2)https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1780736_10203091104261212_2089469565_n.jpg
3)https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1901432_10100893133041216_1752922518_n.jpg
4)https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t31.0-8/1932726_10152251198851337_1483813984_o.jpg
5)https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t31.0-8/1540334_633074556751251_829219088_o.jpg
Theweinz
03-19-14, 11:17 AM
All Jungles except #1 has some Tree Python and #3 some coastal blood???
Mikoh4792
03-19-14, 11:36 AM
All Jungles except #1 has some Tree Python and #3 some coastal blood???
What makes you say #1 has tree python?
Sharlynn93
03-19-14, 11:43 AM
I was thinking the same (I know I'm wrong, because I am new to carpets and they are pretty impossible to guess) but the way it is perched suggests GTP or ETB...and the #3 pic was based on coloring in my guess...but any combo can throw any colors and patterns...I have seen pics of IJ's that look jungle, etc...
Mikoh4792
03-19-14, 11:46 AM
I was thinking the same (I know I'm wrong, because I am new to carpets and they are pretty impossible to guess) but the way it is perched suggests GTP or ETB...and the #3 pic was based on coloring in my guess...but any combo can throw any colors and patterns...I have seen pics of IJ's that look jungle, etc...
Good guesses, but to point it out there, pretty much all carpets perch like that. Coloring is a bit iffy with jungles/coastals. Since many carpets go through ontogenesis(change in coloring with age), you will find many jungles that are grey/white/brown as babies and turn neon yellow as adults.
LadyWraith
03-19-14, 11:51 AM
What a fun game! They all look like some variation of JCPs to me. #2 and #4 are perhaps of the zebra variety? I'm fairly new to my interest in carpets as well. But I'd really like to own number 2 or 4 lol.
Mikoh4792
03-19-14, 11:56 AM
What a fun game! They all look like some variation of JCPs to me. #2 and #4 are perhaps of the zebra variety? I'm fairly new to my interest in carpets as well. But I'd really like to own number 2 or 4 lol.
#2 is zebra for sure, and #4 is not zebra. You owned one lol. Can you guess what subspecies they are?
LadyWraith
03-19-14, 12:02 PM
Haha, no clue. I'm tapped out; that was the extent of my guessing. But no I want a carpet pretty bad lol. All these pictures lately are killing me.
Sharlynn93
03-19-14, 12:36 PM
Good guesses, but to point it out there, pretty much all carpets perch like that. Coloring is a bit iffy with jungles/coastals. Since many carpets go through ontogenesis(change in coloring with age), you will find many jungles that are grey/white/brown as babies and turn neon yellow as adults.
mine has always perched in "hunt" mode, I guess..LOL...she seems like a super hungry girl! She is in full blue right now, so hasn't budged from her hide in 2 days :D
Terranaut
03-19-14, 12:36 PM
This would be like trying to sex them from the pics. Very difficult if not impossible other than the obvious Zebra BUT!! The asymmetrical head pattern on #5 is very cool.
Mikoh4792
03-19-14, 12:55 PM
This would be like trying to sex them from the pics. Very difficult if not impossible.
Yup that's the point I'm trying to make with this thread. I just see people posting their snakes all the time asking " What kind of carpet is this?".
Sharlynn93
03-19-14, 01:05 PM
try being a member of a bp facebook page...100 pics a day of "is my normal really a normal?"...people grasping at straws...normals are beautiful...be happy with him/her...
Mikoh4792
03-19-14, 01:13 PM
try being a member of a bp facebook page...100 pics a day of "is my normal really a normal?"...people grasping at straws...normals are beautiful...be happy with him/her...
I guess it's the word that makes people less appreciative of them. A better word would be wild-type because after a while, a new morph becomes "normal" when everyone has one.
Sharlynn93
03-19-14, 01:24 PM
so true :) there is so much variation in the "normals" of any species that all of them are beautiful...not enough appreciation for the origins of the animals...sorry..done hijacking! carry on, I am anxious to see these results! :)
Mikoh4792
03-19-14, 01:26 PM
Just waiting on 1 or 2 more guesses and I'll reveal the answers
Theweinz
03-19-14, 01:38 PM
[QUOTE=Mikoh4792;910481]What makes you say #1 has tree python?[/QUOTE
Wild uneducated guess, thought that was the hybrid suprise!! So hard to tell with these guys, all beautiful!
No. 4 almost looks like a jag.
I'm horrible with guessing CP's and don't know them that well..but my guess..
1) Coastal
2) Zebra
3) IJ (maybe x coastal?)
4) Jaguar
5) Jungle
Mikoh4792
03-19-14, 01:52 PM
lol good guesses everyone. Here are the answers
1) Carpondro(25% gtp, 75% mixed carpet python(mostly IJ))
2) Coastal Jungle (from a zebra to jungle jag)
3) Coastal Jungle
4) Pure jungle
5) diamond jungle coastal (diamond jungle jaguar sibling)
Mikoh4792
03-19-14, 01:56 PM
Theweinz was right on the money with #1 and #3
That was definitely difficult! All very beautiful snakes! I agree it is very hard to tell without knowing any info. But when no info is known, it's still fun to guess! ;)
Theweinz
03-19-14, 03:53 PM
Theweinz was right on the money with #1 and #3
Wild guess/hunch at most. Thanks for the photos! I eventually would like to get a male to go with my jungle female.
Sublimeballs
03-19-14, 07:11 PM
Dang, I wish could have loaded the pics earlier.
Here's what I would have guessed anyway.
#1 carpondro (the head shape is a giveaway).
#2 jungle Zebra
#3 coastal
#4 jungle
#5 jungle
After reading the answers though. I can see the typical skull cross bones infulence in the #3 animal from the jungle blood. And #5 does look somewhat similar to other diamond crosses I've seen. Before I could load the pics I was expecting IJs, tablelands, and Darwin's tossed in there.
This is a fun little game, I should do one on retic locales.
shaunyboy
03-20-14, 10:25 AM
1 = Jungle altough ive seen a lot of Irian crosses have that faded scales,like behind the right eye on this guy (probaly wrong that there's irian blood in there though mate)
2 = Zebra
3 = may be a Jungle
4 = Jungle
5 = Jungle
that would be my guesses mate
cheers shaun
Mikoh4792
03-20-14, 11:23 AM
1 = Jungle altough ive seen a lot of Irian crosses have that faded scales,like behind the right eye on this guy (probaly wrong that there's irian blood in there though mate)
2 = Zebra
3 = may be a Jungle
4 = Jungle
5 = Jungle
that would be my guesses mate
cheers shaun
Already revealed the answers mate. You are right that number 1 has IJ. It's a carpondro with some IJ blood.
shaunyboy
03-23-14, 10:48 PM
Already revealed the answers mate. You are right that number 1 has IJ. It's a carpondro with some IJ blood.
it's been a while since ive missed something on here,but it looks like i'm still my good old self :wacky: mate
cheers shaun:D
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