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I always see the whole Carpet Python thing as very limited..... I personally love them.... I had a jungle and a coastal a long time ago.... but it seems like it is so hard to get a clean jungle these days..... A whole lot of junglexdiamond thisxthat in carpets......
It's kind of disappointing seeing how there is no new Austrailian stock ever coming in legally in the future..... Remember how hot some of those Jungles were back in the late 90's....??
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It's quite different now.. there are lot of old school bloodlines that do produce quality jungles, as well as lines that have been refined. the fact there are ugly ones out there just make the nice ones more desirable.. On top of that many imports from Europe are here now as well.
Morphs too, this is what has got me into carpet pythons.. Albino, Axanthic, Anery Axanthic, Caramel (closest thing to the boa hypo trait I have seen co-dom and super form) Stripe, tri-stripe, Tiger, super tiger, Granite, Zebra, super Zebra, Jaguar, there are Polygenic traits as well like Ivory.. Could be more I can't think of or don't know about off the top of my head. But many of these morphs are pretty much New to the US market. Very few designer traits have been made other than crosses with Jaguar at this point.
To top it off there are many locality types that are different and some are hard to get a hold of but are out there to be had.
It kind of reminds me of boas many years ago when morphs were all new.
No they can't import new stock from Australia but they can From Papua New Guinea, West Papua/Irian Jaya.. I think some new stuff still filters in slowly from Australia if you know what I mean.. But that makes the locality market for the rare localities better, captive bred isn't in competition with WC so much..
I like it because it's different, there aren't very many people doing it yet, and it's a very similar scene to the boa scene guys are arguing locality ranges, crosses, morphs, etc... Looking at it from a boa guy perspective the biggest difference to me is they lay eggs and look different....
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ATBs and Morelia Nauta are definitely on my to do list.
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