Pulling eggs from female Jungle Carpet

[Derek Roddy]

Thought you guys might get a kick out of this.
Second Jungle clutch this year. Looking forward to working with more Carpet babies this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF9LQ314hu4

Cheers,
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[Minkness]

So smooth! Love your set ups too. =)

Congrats and good luck!

[reptiledude987]

DAMN IT!!! So jealous! I didnt get any locks from my carpets this year.

[jossh27]

i would have got bit. well probably not because id be to afraid to reach in and pick her up without a oven mitt on haha

[Derek Roddy]

Haha...thanks guys. I'm usually around to gather them before they coil but, this year...I've been super busy and not around as much. It's much easier if you can catch them before them go into mother mode. LoL.

Had another female drop last week
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/derekroddy025/jungle12015-2.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/derekroddy025/jungle12015-2.jpg.html)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/derekroddy/derekroddy025/jungle12015-3.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/derekroddy/media/derekroddy025/jungle12015-3.jpg.html)

Fun time of year. And, nice to have some carpet eggs in there next to the BHP eggs. Gives me a little variety to play with. lol.

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[millertime89]

So cool! How big/old is mom?

[Derek Roddy]

Both mothers are 6 years old this year and sisters. I'd guess they're both about 4 and 1/2 feet.

Cheers,
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[reptiledude987]

Oh shes still on the smaller side then. My jcp is pushing 9'. she was that long when I got her and apparently her previous owner got 2, 21 egg clutches out of her. Thats why I'm so dissappointed I got nothing this year. But Ill be trying again next year so we will see what happens.

[Derek Roddy]

I've seen some bigger Jungles around. I like to keep mine about the size that they occur in their native habitat. You'd be hard pressed to find a true "jungle" over 4 or 5 feet in the wild.

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[reptiledude987]

I know thats the typical size for them. which is why I was absolutely blown away when I saw her in person the first time when I bought her. But she was beautiful healthy and had a great temperment so I brought her home that day.

[Derek Roddy]

Carpets are great. love em.

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[RBDTerrell]

Smoooth lol. I feel like I would've gotten bitten for sure. I caught a little bit of the post of Facebook. This is the 3rd time she's done 10 eggs right?

[Derek Roddy]

Second Terrell. Gonna give her off this next year. I've noticed that my females seem to drop about the same every year...give or take one or two.

Hows the new additions settling in?

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[Albert Clark]

Fantastic job! Nice, cool clutch.

[RBDTerrell]

Second Terrell. Gonna give her off this next year. I've noticed that my females seem to drop about the same every year...give or take one or two.

Hows the new additions settling in?

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Ah ok. That's pretty cool that they are that consistent. They are doing great. I was just about to post up pictures of them. Feeding em today when I get home

[Dilema]

I've seen some bigger Jungles around. I like to keep mine about the size that they occur in their native habitat. You'd be hard pressed to find a true "jungle" over 4 or 5 feet in the wild.

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Depends on locality, there are plenty of true "jungles" considerably bigger than 5 foot in their natural habitat ;)

Nice looking jungle , best of luck with the clutch :D

[Derek Roddy]

Depends on locality, there are plenty of true "jungles" considerably bigger than 5 foot in their natural habitat ;)

Nice looking jungle , best of luck with the clutch :D

Sure, when you get into the tablelands areas and some other surrounding area's you get bigger colorful animals but, I don't consider those to be true closed canopy animals. (mostly because they aren't found in closed canopy areas)
Most of the more infamous jungle area's (Mission Beach, Carmoo, Djiru, Granadilla, Tully, Palmerston, etc) are much smaller than their open area counterparts.
Those areas yield bigger animals for many reasons, one of the main ones being larger food sources due to agricultural development and land clearing due to human development.
I've traveled to the "jungle" areas several times during my trips to Aussie and never saw one over 5 to 5 1/2 feet. Doesn't mean they don't exists, they just aren't that common.

I also have maybe 130 to 150+ pictures of wild jungles from those areas none of them over 5 feet.
I do have friends there that have raised these locale animals to be much larger than you'd see in the bush though.

All in the food intake and what's available to them in the areas they inhabit.

Australia is a beautiful and magical place. I encourage everyone to try to make it at least once in their lives.

Thanks for the wishes on the clutches.

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[reptiledude987]

I agree that mines abnormally large for the species Ill throw up a few pics when I get a chance. Ill put something beside her to help give a size refrence.

[Derek Roddy]

If we're talking about captive animals then this conversation is moot. Captive animals can (and will) get much larger than their wild counterparts solely based on the food intake.

We feed em much bigger items and more frequent than they'd get in the wild, thus they grow bigger.

I love a good jungle. Post it up.

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[reptiledude987]

Heres a couple shots of my big girl. One with me holding her for perspective. This is her after her being off feed for a couple months over the winter too. She slimmed down a bit but her appetite has picked up again.

[millertime89]

In your experience are carpets a little feisty when trying to remove eggs or are they typically pretty calm about it?

[Derek Roddy]

Nice jungle brother. Always love seeing them.


[/I]In your experience are carpets a little feisty when trying to remove eggs or are they typically pretty calm about it?

It really depends on the individual snake. I thought for sure she was going to light me up. Haha. She's usually a handful. Lol.

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