Coastal Carpet Python at Snakes Alive 2008

[88Tdwp]

If you have a ten foot Irian jaya male, then I am certain that you would have the only one in the whole fucking world. Irian Jaya Carpets are the smallest species of Morelia spilota, and males are even smaller then the females. I doubt you are telling the truth. Coastals are the largest species of Carpets and to say that you have a 10 foot Irian Jaya, that would rival the size of Coastals. Nice try buddy.

[boombox15talay]

i really need an answer. my coastal is about 1.8m long, is it okay to feed it rats by this size? much apreciated =)

[aydstvb]

Es un ejemplar precioso, a bery beautiful snake.

[deano112211]

Are carpet pythons legal in Ireland?

[primaledge]

Yes...

[bustedlegninja]

they sure are I've 3

[1softkiss]

Just out of curiosity what are the dimensions for the Coastal's enclosure?

[SerbianEagleCCCC]

The biggest carpet I have owned was 2.8 metres long.

I sold it to Crocodile encounters and I am pretty sure they now use it in shows

[dracoskalz]

cool snake 5*

[Cj0n3s12]

I am selling a 3 week old Baby Jungle Carpet for $140. Interested? email me at Cjcapecod@aol

[Herper666]

i swear sssnakeman069 is talking

[1softkiss]

5*s Gorgeous Coastal Carpet!!!! They are indeed incredible snakes and I've got my first carpet and am hooked for life.

[cosmicgate07]

Nice carpet ! I'll buy a carpet and boa constrictor this summer

[mcdowelli76]

I think it was in 1974 they caught a wilf female coastal that was 13'10 or 11" . My big girl is a little over 8'. I hope she has a couple feet more. I have a friend who has a 10' irian jaya male .Feed 'em well ,lots o' excercise and watch 'em grow. :)

[rolawren]

Good one. They seem like nice pets.

[dopeyoak]

@mcdowelli76 how do give a snake exercise?

[mcdowelli76]

@dopeyoak It's more or less supervised exploration out in the yard. Give 'em a yard with enough stuff to climb on and they'll do the rest.

[dopeyoak]

@mcdowelli76 Ah cool. Thanks for the reply.

[philipmichael93]

how big is it?

[rolawren]

I think it was about 7 or 8 feet. Taller than your normal tall guy. It can grow a couple more feet, but will get wider with age.

[philipmichael93]

ahh ok. i thought they only get 8 ft. max. Are you going by what the guy said?

[rolawren]

No what I have read on the web on musueum or herpetological sites. Generally as you said 7 to 8 ft is the norm and the figure given for normal maximum lengths, but in rare cases very old snakes have been found to 13 to 14 ft (in the wild). What that guy in the video said was that they can get to 10 ft (I think from memory, as I have deleted this off my PC but still have the tape). We once saw a big python crossing a road in Qld, but it was probably only 7ft - still very impressive.

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[ponytopgun]

Robyn - well done 2698 views!

Allan

[grapecar0]

are you sure thats the biggest? i was never told if mine was a jungle or a coastal carpet python but it is just about as big as this one. nice snake though

[rolawren]

Have checked a couple of sources and also the sign on the tank at the exhibition said it was the largest of the subspecies. Morelia spilota mcdowelli. The Jungle Carpet Python is smaller, but still a large snake. It is distinctively black/dark brown with bright yellow whereas the Coastal C.P. is olive greeny/brown as you can see.

[Genocide5052]

if its that big then its definatley a coastal carpet python, jungles only get 1.5m

[HerrRettereich]

my jungle is pushing 7 feet at 5 years old and is still pretty thin

[chriscornel]

Beautiful snake I have a morelia spilota imbricata which is the only carpet you can own in west aus which sucks. Do you think that some day we can have snakes from the eastern states?, I would love to have a green tree or diamond python :)

[rolawren]

W.A. is very protective of keeping fauna and flora that belongs to its state protected from introducing other species from the East. I doubt if it would change, but who knows. The one you have must be a very attractive snake, just not a big or showy as some of the eastern especially tropical snakes.

[Zamboner666]

australia?

[rolawren]

Canberra, the capital city of Australia, in an annual exhibition. It is just a clip that I put up to test using YouTube months ago. The whole story of the exhibition (including this footage) and a narration is in the video of mine called:

Snakes Alive at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

(I will put the link in the description of this video).

[Zamboner666]

Where was this like what city

[tommygf333]

what does he eat? rabbits? people?

[rolawren]

Since he is capivity - rats, he can eat up to a wallaby (small kangaroo), and probably lizards, goannas that sort of thing.

[tommygf333]

cool i have had one for a few months now its very friendly and growing rapidly it eats small mice at the mo

[peterandpaul01]

How long is he?

[rolawren]

I believe he is about 3 metres. They can grow to about 4 metres. In the recording the owner, Greg said that he expects it to grow another metre, but double its weight. Currently I think he said it weighs about 4 kg.

[peterandpaul01]

Nice :D

[rolawren]

By the way I think the snake is called Fingers because he accidentally bit some-one a year or so ago. He is about 10 years old, and the owner in the video says that he is likely to grow another metre and I think he said double his weight. He was also saying that they can eat small rock wallabies (like little kangaroos), but was explaining they have to keep warm to digest the food, otherwise it can go off inside them and they can die from it. Hence they use roads to bask on, which can be fatal

[sununicycler]

Wow, that was a beautiful animal. The sound quality was a bit subpar though. I would have liked to hear what the guy had to say about them.

[rolawren]

I do have about 3 to 4 minutes of this footage, as I was after the footage of the Coastal Python, not the sound, for my other promotional video on Snakes Alive, which has a narration track. Unfortunately it was a very crowded room with about 100+ people. I only put up the more interesting angles I had of the snake. I moved around abit to get different angles, which I cut out, but Greg was still talking, suppose I could freeze frame good snake picture between setups, and leave Greg talking. Thx.