Blood or short tail?

[Dom]

I have many diff. species of python but this is my first blood python ever - I just got the little guy about a week ago.. Is he ever so cute!

Now heres my Question .. What is he? How do you tell locality or wether its a blood or a short tail .. Can't post pics unfortunetly but I would love if someone would be able to tell me so I can try to figure it out on my own ..

By the way .. he is 18 inches .. nice and fat .. tamed .. cb .. and supposed to be a blood ..

Thanks for all u're help - the more descriptive the better

Dom

[Linds]

Sorry I cannot be of much help without pics, I do not know much about the scale counts, etc of the Python curtus ssp.

Congratulations on your new aquisition though!! :bounce:

[Grant vg]

There is alot of confusion behind this whole P. Curtus species with ppl who dont know much about them....

Heres the facts...


There are 3 ssp...Malaysian Blood python , borneo short tail python and the Sumatran "black" short tailed python...

A lot of ppl sell them as "blood pythons", no matter which sub species it is....however there is a fairly big difference between the three, but a little bit harder with the Borneo and Sumatran...

The true Blood python usually occurs in a red colouration (hint: the name) although not all are BLOOD red, maybe even most arn't, at least in Canada that is.....
Most Bloods look like this...

http://gallery.kingsnake.com/data/1328redbloodmale-H2-med.jpg http://gallery.kingsnake.com/data/1328redbloodmale-H1-med.jpg

Where as the borneo, usually has a yellow'er <-:confused: head with earthy tones along the body and sometimes with some white and yellow markings...kinda like this...http://gallery.kingsnake.com/data/1328Borneo-hanginfullbody.jpg http://gallery.kingsnake.com/data/1328borneo-fullbodyshot1-med.jpg

And then theres the Sumatran "black" which as a hatchling usually is black with some silveryyy<-:confused: greyish markings...something like this....http://www.vpi.com/5VPIBreeders/SumatranShortTailedPython/PccurtusF16Feb9800b160.jpg

Now the blood python can come in four or so colour variations... being red, yellow, orange and brown...being the dominate colour...heres my yellow female..http://gallery.kingsnake.com/data/1328Yellowbloodfemale-enclosure-med.jpg

I Cant stress how much confusion there is with this species, if u look at the KS.com classifieds...they got bloods as borneos, borneos as red bloods, blacks as bloods and a whole lotta different combos...its hilarious and enough to confuse anybody...
In Canada, most ppl (at least with P. Curtus) are fairly smart at representing there snakes, so u probably have a true blood of one of the four variations...most likely like the first two pics above...u really cant miss it....if ur still unsure, try getting a pic and i'm sure we can help u out....
Anyways, hope i've been of some help!:rolleyes:
Feel free to ask any questions....the more and more i work with this group the less i am interested with the rest of the snakes in this world...and i sometimes jonse (sp??) to talk about em'!!!:rolleyes:

Oh yeah, one more thing....True red bloods occur mostly in malaysia but there is a small local located in Sumatra (Probably confusing u even more!) lol
As far as i know, there is no way of telling the two locals apart...not even by scalation....but many ppl sell them as sumatran locales, because there is a rumor going around that the malaysians are nastier....ooops...did i confuse u even more! lol

Congrats, and welcome to a new world of snakes!

[Dom]

U're post was of great help ..

After looking at your pics, I have concluded thath he or she is a yellow blood python .. He actually ooks almost identical to your big girl except he is about 10 times smaller..

Thanks so much for the help

Take care
Dom

[Linds]

Also Dom, at such a young age they havent come into their colours yet, so your little guy still may change some ;)