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02/26/2024

Love me some woma pythons, they are such a beautiful python, they were one of the first species I ever got to work with, many years ago. They can have some vibrant colors on them, and quirky personalities. They are one of Australia’s hidden gems.

02/21/2024

I love me a good black & yellow jungle, but something about these golds, that are fabulous looking to me, and clean on top of it. This is a Palmerston locality jungle carpet, these guys in the US still have that typical wild jungle look. He’s been doing some breeding for me this season. He’s been breeding a beautiful black & yellow zebra jungle (pure) with all the old school jungle blood lines.

02/20/2024

The southern coastal’s seem to enjoy their perches. Most of the southern coastal’s I work with are dark, with purple hues. They are quite impressive. Hope to have luck with breeding these guys one day.

02/19/2024

We will see how this goes. I moved this girl shortly before or after she ovulated. I honestly can’t remember. I bred her to my original stripe Palmerston jungle. She has a nice abundance of black on her, so it will be interesting to see how the babies look, if all goes well, of course. Last time she laid for me was in 2022, so I’m hoping for the best.

02/18/2024

These two separate clades of pythons, are known for their giants, but they both have smaller species/subspecies (depends who you ask), just to give you guys an outside perspective of these two clades, but still sticking with pythons. The short tail python clade, are broken up into four species (fully elevated species), but they are only 1.5% or 2% genetically divergent from each other, and inhabit less of a geographical range, than that of these two other species groups. Which begs the question, are there more than, just two or three species? That is for taxonomist to decide. I can have my opinion on what should be considered a species, but I am not a taxonomist. A lot can cause speciation events such as climates or environment, mountains, for example, can be a huge reasoning for speciation events. Some of these mountains can be tens of millions of years old, and to have animals on both sides of a mountain for that period of time will cause evolutionary variance.

This post was made from an article about the Eunectes murinus being broken into two separate species. If you looked at the other members of the family Boidae group like Boa & Corallus that share the same geographical ranges as murinus it seems a bit more logical that they would also be more then one species.

02/14/2024

This is another example of I only bred once now I’m not sure what to breed to her now(maybe), but she’s so pretty I can’t imagine selling her. The ultramel gene really has grown on me over the last few years. This burgundy ultramel spotnose is really easy on the eyes.

02/12/2024

A group of grow up royal pythons, the three are het puzzles. The other one I’m not sure I’m allowed to say (not new). Some of these girls will probably be ready by next season. I should have some good males too, put to these girls.

02/11/2024

I’ve been on a big snake kick here recently, so I thought I’d show a Sri Lankan python. These Sri Lankan pythons have been growing quite a bit, along with the other larger python species I work with. I’m going to have to start really working on the big snake room here soon. 😬

02/10/2024

The beauty of a wild type reticulated python is what makes them one of the most beautiful python’s on the planet, and with those two orange eyes that can really captivate you, and with the size they can potentially get. I’ve only ever got to work with one big reticulated python. It was a tiger retic Ben had. She was 18 or so feet. When they are that big or bigger it is quite impressive. They were one of the first big constrictors that I got to work with, earlier on for me in the hobby. I have “big” plans for these two girls I work with, as they grow (doesn’t require breeding them).

02/09/2024

Took a good shot of this female olive python’s head, she looks so angry, but she is a sweet snake, as long as she is not in shed. I have just been keeping her, and raising her slowly, I don’t have any male(s), yet for her (she’s a het albino), but that’s okay. I really enjoy working with her. Olive pythons were one of those snakes, I didn’t think much of, until the opportunity arisen, and I gave her a try, and man was that a fantastic decision, she’s well mannered, always curious, and easy to handle. If you’re into bigger snakes olives are definitely something to look into.

02/08/2024

Big constrictors, are well adaptive to their environment, as far as how big they will grow, depending on food availability. Rock pythons are a great example of this. Most know that Central African rocks tend to get bigger than the Southern species, some specimens of sebae, can even get close to 5 m, but in the country of Niger (West Africa), they rarely exceeded above 3 m, so these pythons have adapted to their environment to stay on the smaller side (3 m is still a good size snake). Sometimes bigger is not always better.

02/07/2024

It’s really hard to beat a classic wild type Burmese python, a species with such a history in herpetoculture, and an infamous reputation in the US as well, good and bad, and I see both sides, but regardless of your stance on the matter. They are beautiful pythons that have inspired, and enamored people in herpetoculture for decades. I love the wild type of all snakes, but I am a sucker for albinos. 😉

02/06/2024

These are such a curious species, any time I’m moving around in the room, they are always up front looking at me, the older Angolan’s don’t seem to care as much until I open up their enclosure. They are such an awesome species to work with. These guys are the ones I got from a buddy in South Africa.

02/04/2024

Love the look of the cinnamon puzzles. I’m interested in adding more dark genes into them, and maybe down the line add lighter colored genes, just to get more pop.

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