How big?

[Niki]

I visited our local reptile rescue today and they had in a jungle carpet python, it was a beautiful,and it looked enormous, when I inquired about him they said he was ten feet long!!!He was curled up so I couldn't see for myself but he's head and body looked huge I mean massive. I thought jungles were relatively small for carpets between 6-8 feet and slender. The owners are of the sanctuary have decided to keep him for themselves, good job really, or I would be building another viv this weekend!!!!!!!!

[LdyDrgn]

Must have been a female to be that big... Males usually range about 6-8 feet.

[RachelS.]

I'm thinking it was a coastal carpet python because jungles do not get that big.

[gonesnakee]

Chances are it could be a "jungle like" specimen of a coastal/jungle carpet cross? Mark I.

[LdyDrgn]

That's a possibility.... pics would help ;)

[MudBoy]

Niki I live in Australia and you are right jungle pythons dont grow that big. Most are between 5 and 7 ft so it will be a cross as most are over seas. I have seen pictures of what most people call jungles in Canada and USA and they dont look anything like the wild ones we get here.
I have pix if you want to see a true jungle.
Coastal carpets get big here, I have a 9ft and an 11 ft that I have photos of and I have a friend with much bigger.
If you want to see some pix of them or any other Aussie snakes just ask.
Cheers.

[reticguy]

Jungles in captivity look far different from their wild counterparts not as a result of cross-breeding, but as a result of SELECTIVE breeding. Breeders selectively bred jungles to exhibit the brightest possible yellows against the sharpest blacks.

Nathan

[Colonel SB]

I wanna see some pics of wild carpets.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Get the Barker book for wild Jungle pics. They aren't all that impressive. Drab, crappy patterns, and generally rough-looking. Not at all exotic in appearance.

They are killer to a Carpet-lover like me, but if you want a show-stopper, get a selectively-bred Jungle. Ha ha, actually, its your only choice!! LOL!

...and Reticguy is right. Yes, there are crosses out there, but Jungles look like they do because of selective breeding, NOT because of crossing with other SUBSPECIES.


You think these were crossed to look like this? No way.

http://members.shaw.ca/Uploaded_pics2/Jungle_Barker.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/Uploaded_pics/JCF2.jpg

[MudBoy]

Wild caught Jungles are stunning creatures if you see them in the flesh and not in a book with over processed and fadded out poor quality photographs. The colour changes with the location, from the dark coastal jungles which are very black with vivid yellow markings to the highland rain forest jungles that grow to imense size and have very little black on them at all.
I have pics of all of the above and if you find them DRAB then I think that is just your opinion and you are entitled to it .

Cheers Rick.

p.s. heres a little wild caught jungle from the central lowlands of Queensland.

[ThEmAdHaTtEr]

Nice pic Mud. I love that one! And yeah it was prolly a coastal. Others dont get THAT big.