Pulling eggs from female Jungle Carpet

[Dilema]

Originally Posted by 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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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

[Derek Roddy]

Originally Posted by Dilema

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

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.


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Originally Posted by millertime89

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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