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SnakeyJay
10-23-10, 11:59 AM
right so the situation is this... i took my dad to my local reptile store today as i had to get a new thermometer.. anyway hes agreed to buy me a new snake for christmas... but which one.. im thinking either a jungle carpet or a nice type of redtail Boa... does anyone have any suggestions and pics so i can see what your talking about?? much appreciated everyone x
Reptile_Reptile
10-23-10, 01:07 PM
jungle carpet.... ftw
check out this thread
http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/general-discussion/84536-new-friend.html
Freebody
10-23-10, 05:11 PM
Always go with a carpet lol here comes the flood of posts that look just like this one lol :) red tails boas are sweet snakes as well. i have both, love them both as well but the carpets are much more interesting because they like to climb around and eat off their perches ... carpets ftw :)
D&J-burgos
10-23-10, 11:08 PM
much agreed...beautiful snakes
marvelfreak
10-24-10, 05:55 AM
:)Get a Jungle you can never go wrong with a carpet.:)
SnakeyJay
10-24-10, 01:14 PM
lol so red tails are generally in active?? oh whats ftw?
Lankyrob
10-24-10, 01:36 PM
Ftw - f*** the world
Reptile_Reptile
10-24-10, 02:35 PM
no ftw = for the win

so i said jungle carpet for the win
presspirate
10-24-10, 03:25 PM
My boa's are pretty active. My Nic more so than My redtail, but for the most part they are out and about quite often.
Freebody
10-24-10, 04:04 PM
Ftw - f*** the world
LOL ya its for the win lol
Lankyrob
10-24-10, 05:23 PM
Hehehe, another example of language not "travelling" well!
presspirate
10-24-10, 09:13 PM
Hehehe, another example of language not "travelling" well!
I was with you Rob with F the world. I think it's a generation gap thing......:yes:
Reptile_Reptile
10-24-10, 11:38 PM
lol old people and their lack of understanding in current pop culture ^_^
Lankyrob
10-25-10, 03:45 AM
I dont know - "the youth of today"!!! ;)
Will0W783
10-25-10, 08:50 AM
I say go with the carpet. I am a total Morelia addict, with 7 carpets, 3 green tree pythons, and a Moluccan scrub. Carpets are curious, active snakes, and jungles have a gorgeous yellow and black pattern. I also have red-tails and the hypo salmons are my favorites. They get large though; 10-12 feet; so you have to be prepared for a 60 pound snake that is time and a half your height. Carpets top out at 6-8 feet on average and are very slender for their length. Both RTBs and carpets tend to be good eaters, but carpets are generally more tolerant of lapses in temps/humidity.
Reptile_Reptile
10-25-10, 07:36 PM
what is Morelia? is it just a name for python?
Freebody
10-25-10, 07:48 PM
its the carpet python scientific name, diamonds, jungles, coastals... they are all morelia then the specific name after that :)
SnakeyJay
10-26-10, 01:17 PM
im definately stuck between 3... jungle, coastal or a red tail.... dont know what a nic is tho.... oh im with rob, i was thinkin f*** the world.
presspirate
10-26-10, 01:37 PM
Nicaraguan Boa. They are on the smaller end. 4-6 feet and not as heavily bodied.
Will0W783
10-26-10, 06:04 PM
Morelia is the genus name for carpet pythons. Morelia spilota designates a carpet python species: diamonds are Morelia spilota spilota, jungles are Morelia spilota cheyneii, coastals are Morelia spilota mcdowelli, and Irian Jayas are Morelia spilota harrissoni or Morelia spilota variegata, depending on the sub-locality.
There are also Boelen's python (Morelia boeleni), Green tree python (Morelia viridis), rough-scaled python (Morelia carinata), and the scrub pythons (Morelia amethystina species). Moluccan, Aru, Amethystine, Biak, are all localities of scrubs with their own species names, which escape me right now..lol. Sorry, I'm a bit of a Morelia addict...lmao!

I think I got them all...did I miss any Morelia, guys?
SnakeyJay
10-27-10, 01:45 PM
wow thats alot of python !!
Will0W783
10-27-10, 01:56 PM
Lol, yeah it is a rather large genus. Not as large as the red-tailed boa genus though. But Morelia definitely contains a nice variety of species. They all have the typical large nasal heat sensing pits though. In fact, once you recognize that they belong to the same genus, you can see a lot of similarities between them all. ;)
SnakeyJay
10-27-10, 02:09 PM
thats amazing willow! so what sort of boas are there? just asking out of interest x
marvelfreak
10-27-10, 03:11 PM
Morelia is the genus name for carpet pythons. Morelia spilota designates a carpet python species: diamonds are Morelia spilota spilota, jungles are Morelia spilota cheyneii, coastals are Morelia spilota mcdowelli, and Irian Jayas are Morelia spilota harrissoni or Morelia spilota variegata, depending on the sub-locality.
There are also Boelen's python (Morelia boeleni), Green tree python (Morelia viridis), rough-scaled python (Morelia carinata), and the scrub pythons (Morelia amethystina species). Moluccan, Aru, Amethystine, Biak, are all localities of scrubs with their own species names, which escape me right now..lol. Sorry, I'm a bit of a Morelia addict...lmao!

I think I got them all...did I miss any Morelia, guys?

Inland Carpet (Morelia s. metcalfei), Southwestern Carpet (Morelia spilota imbricata), Isle of St. Francis Carpet (Morelia spilota imbricata), Northwestern Carpet (Morelia spilota variegata), and this doesn't count the three kind of carpet found in New Guinea.
You asked. lol :) Reptile magazine May 1999 had a article by Dave and Tracy Barker called A Capestry of Carpet Pythons. It has a bunch i never heard of.
percey39
10-27-10, 07:45 PM
We have just had a name change a while ago for the Australian scrubs Kim and they are now known as Morelia Kinghorni, people still refer to them amethystina but the name has changed.

PS. Sorry for the technicallities LOL
Freebody
10-27-10, 08:02 PM
oh i wonder if thats a loop hole in them being legal to own here now, i know scrubs are banned but this new name i dont think is on their LOL JK i know i cant win from losing :P
percey39
10-28-10, 12:34 AM
Haha i dont think that the scientific name change will mean anything in that regard as a scrubby is a scrubby LOL.
Will0W783
10-28-10, 09:05 AM
Lol, thanks Percey and Marvelfreak! I am going to have to go look up that Dave Barker article. ;)
marvelfreak
10-28-10, 12:23 PM
Lol, thanks Percey and Marvelfreak! I am going to have to go look up that Dave Barker article. ;)
Dam i just realized i have this magazine for 12 years. It's a really good article that's why i kept it all this years.
Here's one i missed.
centralian python (morelia bredli)
Xanafein
11-04-10, 03:13 PM
go with the morelia.... although that answer has been beeten into the ground
link
11-05-10, 05:59 AM
carpet is the way if you want a snake that in inquisitive and great to watch mine follows me with his head everywhere i go in the room.lol :hmm: