IQ Exotics

09/25/2024

It’s always nice to see this pretty lady out and about before lights turn on.

“Blade”
‘21 0.1 Baylin line tiger coastal from

09/25/2024

This ‘24 F4 red coastal was just listed on MM. Feel free to reach out via messenger with any questions.

09/22/2024

New skin and new name for this holdback 😉

“Richter”
‘24 1.0 f4 red coastal (MBB/Russian x MBB)
He’s from Belmont x Katara. So bonus points for anyone who gets the name reference. IYKYK.

09/20/2024

A female Puerto Rican boa that arrived earlier this week. She was swabbed per protocol and will remain in quarantine for the next several months.

And yes, I’m not wearing gloves. Unfortunately, I forgot to pull them from the snake room before picking this girl up from the FedEx hub- so that room was off limits until after a shower and a change of clothes.

09/18/2024

This girl gets better with age. 😍

“Burberry”
‘22 0.1 MPenn line red northern coastal from

09/16/2024

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted the Chilabothrus. This Puerto Rican boa was produced by by way of .ectotherms

09/15/2024

An F3 red jag coastal from this season (MBB x MBB/Lemke)

09/08/2024

This girl is probably my favorite holdback from this season. She’s an F4 red coastal from Belmont x Katara (MBB/russian x MBB)

09/05/2024

3 male ‘24 red coastals. The red jag in the first pic is spoken for, but the other 2 are looking to ✈️✈️✈️

Pic 1) ‘24 F3 1.0 red jag from Gunther x Fuego (MBB x MBB/Lemke)
Pics 2 and 3) 2.0 F4 reds from Belmont x Katara (MBB/Russian x MBB)

Feel free to message me with any ❔’s

09/05/2024

This ‘20 female MPenn stripe x jungle is looking to ✈️✈️✈️

Please send a message for serious discussion. Thanks for looking.

09/04/2024

I’m reluctantly making these two jungles available ✈️✈️✈️

Pic 1) ‘20 female MIA line jungle (F1 female from the original animals) by way of Martin Rosemond. She’s old enough to breed, but I don’t have a suitable male for her.

Pic2) ‘22 male jungle produced by Riley Jimison

Both animals are mild mannered, but are very eager to eat because they’re in the middle of a summer feed cycle in preparation for the winter.

Feel free to message me with any serious inquiries. Thanks for looking.

09/03/2024

This pretty lady has been doing really well. She took a meal last night, as you can see by the bulge in her belly.

“Carmen Sandiego”
‘20 0.1 red coastal (MBB x Russian) produced by .ectotherms by way of .exotics

08/30/2024

The dam to this season’s red jungle clutch

“Cerenia”
‘19 0.1 90%+ jungle/coastal from

08/28/2024

Some of this year’s established hatchlings, including this male F4 red coastal will be looking for new digs very soon ✈️✈️✈️

Feel free to send a DM.

And yes. That is a pink snake hook

08/26/2024

This male red coastal from the Gunther X fuego clutch (MBB x MBB/Lemke) had his second shed

08/24/2024

A favorite around here 😎

“Ms. Mercury”
‘22 0.1 MBB red jag from /

08/21/2024

One of this season’s hatchlings looking good. This little guy is an F3 red coastal jag from Gunther x Fuego’s clutch (MBB x MBB/Lemke) parents owned by .ectotherms.

08/15/2024

This red jungle has had her second shed and has become established almost seamlessly. She’s the clutchmate to the other red jungle 2 posts back. She’ll be staying here.

08/14/2024

One of this season’s holdbacks from the Gunther x Fuego clutch. Some of these will be made available once very well established (some are already spoken for). This guy made a mess with the sphagnum moss. 🥴

08/10/2024

One of this season’s red jungles just had his second shed. He’s looking really bright. 😎

He’s from Gunther x Cerenia
(MBB line red jaguar x 90% Jungle/coastal)

08/09/2024

For my fellow snake nerds who are into this type of info. 🤓

Here is a bit of a read, for those interested…
What DO YOU KNOW about CARPET PYTHONS and where they came from!?

It’s been a while, and in that time we’ve been given some exciting new information, so let’s do a quick update. Previously, the theory supported here at Pwt Pythons, was that an expansion took place 9000 years ago. At a time when Australia was part of a larger landmass connected to New Guinea. I thought that an early group of Papuan Carpet Python had originated and dispersed from what is now NG, into modern day Australia where they have since adapted overtime. It seems I was wrong, at least partially, but wrong nonetheless. This includes previously posted locality maps, which will be updated accordingly.
I have recently learnt about fossil specimens of Morelia, discovered in northern regions of Australia. With this information in mind, the previous theory seemed unsupported.

So these past few weeks I have been busy reading through multiple papers, gathering information from research in geology, ecology, field work and biogeology; and with these little pieces of information, a larger puzzle has been brought together. With the help of a particular paper published in 2020, detailing extensive molecular studies, tests and their findings, the origins of the Morelia lineage is becoming clear. However, to begin explaining the incredible diversity we see today, I want to take you much further back in time. It is a little bit complicated, so let’s use dot points…
- The Eocene (56-33.9 million years ago). The dawn of a new world, and like many modern animals… Biogeographic reconstruction places the origin of pythons, in Asia at this time.
- 33.9-23 million years ago, the Oligocene epoch, saw a decrease in global temperatures and the spread of grasslands and deserts. Ancestral python groups had seperated and in the process… some dispersed into Africa, while the Indo-Australian lineage had dispersed across the Wallace line and were living in what we now call Indonesia.
- By the early Miocene, (23.3-15 million years ago), some groups had travelled back across the Wallace line, to disperse across SE Asia. While what was now the Australo-Papuan lineage, continued on to disperse into New Guinea.
- Mid Miocene (15-11 million years ago). During this sub-epoch, the Australo-Papuan lineage separated into two groups/clades. Morelia and Bothrochilus; the later primarily remained and diversified in New Guinea, with some dispersing into Australia or back to Indonesia. For the most part, the Morelia group diversified across Australia, with the exception of three seperate ventures back into New Guinea. These three that dispersed back into New Guinea are what we now know as the spotted python, papuan carpet and green tree python.
- By the end of the Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago) each of these diversified clades had settled or ultimately become bound by their respective geographic situations. Allowing ample time between then and now, to adapt to specific ecological niches across the planet.

A handful of papers discuss adaptive radiation, and its association with ecological opportunities. Especially those found on islands, or in some cases, continents that have experienced suitable periods of isolation. As the Australo-Papuan lineage dispersed across the landmass that would someday become Australia and New Guinea, they found an ecologically diverse landscape. At the time, NG was predominantly rainforest, likely giving rise to an early form or ancestor of the Green Tree Python. Although much of northern Australia was also rainforest, (including Uluṟu), there is no evidence to suggest that Green Tree Pythons were widespread across Australia. As the planet warmed up and regions further from the equator began to dry out, what was rainforest, became open woodland and later, scrubland or desert. As the environment shifted, it is likely that a group separated away from the early ancestor of GTP, whilst the later became restricted to the diminishing rainforests.
Having diverged from their rainforest counterparts, a new group of pythons found themselves adapting to a harsher, drier, colder environment. This group would go on to become the Carpet Pythons and Anterasia we know today.

An adaption to the drier climate allowed these pythons to reach new ecological opportunities, which in turn, gave rise to further morphological diversification. Further diversification into these newly available ecological niches resulted in the phenotypic variation that has created the subspecies and perhaps even localities we see in Carpet Pythons today.

A massive thank you to everyone who helped bring this post together. In particular…
Daniel Natusch thank you for answering all of my pestering questions. And for inspiring me to revisit this topic and to further my knowledge and understanding.
Thank you to Damien Esquerre for reading through the draft a number of times, I have been very grateful for your advice and patience.

08/09/2024

This snake was upgraded to her adult caging a few weeks ago and has settled in seamlessly.

“Lexington”
‘21 Tiger coastal (Baylin x Ted Thomson lines) from

08/07/2024

Female holdback F4 red coastal. This pic doesn’t show it well, but she’s got a really nice dorsal stripe. Some of these will be made available after a few more meals.

08/04/2024

This girl is never on the cage floor. 😎

“Jenova”
‘19 0.1 diamond python (RBZ/SDZ x CC) produced by Andy Watson by way of

07/29/2024

A very pretty wild type that’s been growing nicely. 😏

“Leviathan”
‘23 0.1 Russian outcross from .ectotherms