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[dalvers63]

Hi everyone!

I am new to this site, but not new to reptiles. I've been keeping and breeding snakes for the better part of 20 years. I've owned many different species over the years and always come back to the Australian pythons.

I currently keep 28 snakes:
16 ball pythons
7 carpet pythons (Centralian, Jungle, Irian Jaya, IJxJag sibs)
3 boas (Hog island, Sonoran and Kenyan)
1 Texas rat snake
1 Bullsnake

I've cared for or kept lots of other species including corns, burmese pythons, water and spotted pythons, hognose, kingsnakes and milksnakes.

Snakes are definitely my passion and I have no plans of not having one anytime in the future. I also am involved with halfway housing and working with the adoption committee of our local herp society.

Nice to meet you all!

deb
*****
LOTS of balls
A few carpets
A couple of boas
A Rat and a Bull (snakes of course)

[Johnny Utah]

Originally Posted by dalvers63

Hi everyone!

I am new to this site, but not new to reptiles. I've been keeping and breeding snakes for the better part of 20 years. I've owned many different species over the years and always come back to the Australian pythons.

I currently keep 28 snakes:
16 ball pythons
7 carpet pythons (Centralian, Jungle, Irian Jaya, IJxJag sibs)
3 boas (Hog island, Sonoran and Kenyan)
1 Texas rat snake
1 Bullsnake

I've cared for or kept lots of other species including corns, burmese pythons, water and spotted pythons, hognose, kingsnakes and milksnakes.

Snakes are definitely my passion and I have no plans of not having one anytime in the future. I also am involved with halfway housing and working with the adoption committee of our local herp society.

Nice to meet you all!

deb
*****
LOTS of balls
A few carpets
A couple of boas
A Rat and a Bull (snakes of course)

Welcome! It's great to have you here. I'm a sucker for Australian Pythons too. How about some pictures??

[dalvers63]

Originally Posted by Johnny Utah

Welcome! It's great to have you here. I'm a sucker for Australian Pythons too. How about some pictures??

here are a couple for you:

My pair of Centralians, Jika and Juuna (Jika, the male, is the lighter red)



My 07 female Irian Jaya, Sonoka:



And my newest one, a female 06 Jungle carpet:

[danktat]

Definatel sounds like a nice, diverse collection. I would love to see more of it. Welcome to RTC

[dalvers63]

Originally Posted by danktat

Definatel sounds like a nice, diverse collection. I would love to see more of it. Welcome to RTC

thanks much! I look forward to being here. I'll see what I can do to get more pics up. Hopefully someone here will have an idea about the boa I just adopted from our herp society. It was abandoned in an apartment along with a bunch of younger boas so I have NO idea what type "she" is (not sure of sex yet, I'll probe her after she digests her last rat a bit). It's quite possible she is just a mutt. Either way, she's pretty and I like her. She's quite dark which are my favorite types of boas.

[Johnny Utah]

Great looking snakes. I'm in love with JCP's. I have two of my own.
Question - Are Centralian Pythons the same thing as Bredl's?

	Jungle Carpet Python

[dalvers63]

Originally Posted by Johnny Utah

Great looking snakes. I'm in love with JCP's. I have two of my own.
Question - Are Centralian Pythons the same thing as Bredl's?

Yes, they are: Morelia bredli

I was SO happy to see they had come down in price and luckily we have one of the main breeders of this species in Washington. When I saw he had some for sale, I jumped on the chance to pick them up. They're some of my favorite pythons and I can't wait for them to get big. They're currently just over 100 grams and eating rat pups once or twice a week.

I'm hoping to be able to breed them in 3-4 years

	Jungle Carpet Python

[Stargazer]

28 snakes...whoa....! *bowing*

[dalvers63]

Originally Posted by Stargazer

28 snakes...whoa....! *bowing*

You'd never know they were there unless you looked :-)