Carpet python help?

[SWDK]

That's good to hear. What did you end up offering it?

[Andy_G]

Glad he began eating again for you!

[Derek Roddy]

Originally Posted by Andy_G

Since he is actually that young, it won't have to do with breeding.

Originally Posted by Andy_G

but I am going to be quite blunt here, he has been overfed in your care. There's no other possible way that he has gotten to his current size so quickly even if he came from a bloodline of VERY big coastals.

Actually, if the animal is the size he says....could very well been the breeding season that caused the non interest in food. I have friends who have power fed their males into breeding in 18 months.....easy to do with a male carpet.

I also bet he was a 14 and not a 15. Some people list the hatch years as their hatch date....some use the breeding season for theirs...this would cause that discrepancy.

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[Andy_G]

Originally Posted by Derek Roddy

Actually, if the animal is the size he says....could very well been the breeding season that caused the non interest in food. I have friends who have power fed their males into breeding in 18 months.....easy to do with a male carpet.

I also bet he was a 14 and not a 15. Some people list the hatch years as their hatch date....some use the breeding season for theirs...this would cause that discrepancy.

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If he were a '15 animal...wouldn't he be less than a full year old? I can easily see an 18 month old power fed male having an interest in breeding...but one that is barely a yearling? THAT is what threw me big time...the interest would be showing next season, not this one, at around that 18 month mark. It would make much more sense to have actually been born in '14, as I mentioned in a previous post, but OP seems pretty confident that it's a '15. I guess size is much more of a determining factor, though.

[Derek Roddy]

Honestly the OP only knows what he is told.
No way you could grow a hatchling carpet to be on med rats in 10 months.
Bet it was a 14.

Common practice for breeders selling wholesale. Because most only maintained feed.