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I am real interested in acquiring some children's pythons but as hatchlings I have a hard time distinguishing spotted and children's. Can any post pics and the two and tell me what the differences are so that I could tell them apart. As Adults I am certain I can tell them apart. I also know that there is a light phase that exists and the spotted have the cape york.
thanks,
Joe Acosta

as hatchlings... maybe size as spotteds are a little bigger than children's. As adults telling them apparent it pretty easy as children's python are also called "fading python" because they lose their spots as they get older and Spotted pythons always keep thier spots. And agian, size. I don't personally own any children's pythons but I do have 2 spotted pythons. My male is het.granite and my female's pretty much "normal", cleaner looking than my male.
1st pic male
2nd pic female
you can also do a google search as well;here's a pretty good site.
http://www.antaresia.com/index.html

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1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Rex- "normal" orange fire)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Glutany- German Giant Mix)
0.1.0 Okeetee Corn (Okatee)
1.1.0 Spotted Python (Hotdog and Shoelace)

From what I've seen, and I think it's evident in the photos of the Spotted posted by Black_Wolf, that the spots on a Spotteds' pattern seem a bit more fused together. Where are you planning to get your python from? If you are worried about being sold a Childrens by accident when you wanted a Spotted or vice versa, I think the you wouldn't have to worry about that when buying from the guy @ tinypythons.com or the guy @ Isis Reptiles (on KS.com's main page breeders directory). I got my Childrens from Isis.

reako45

i got mine from tiny pythons and she has been a dream. she was a yearling when i got her. i bought her at the buffalo new york show. all of the animals were womderful and i actually did not get the ones i wanted becaus ei had to think so hard at which ones, the origional pair i wanted ended up selling before i went back to get buy them. again they are wonderful to buy from
adam

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hybrid breeders association
1.0 snow corns
1.0 albino corns
1.1 sinacorns
1.0 striped ghost corns
1.1 kenyan sand boas
1.1 mbk
1.3 ghost corns
0.1 bloodred
0.1 striped albino corn
0.1 childrens python
0.1 albino nelsons
0.1 anery motley
0.1 albino banded cal king
0.1 normal corn het hypo,anery
1.0 jurassic milk
1.0 blizzard leo gecko
0.2 normal leo geckos
1.0 3 lined mud turtle

Well, here is a childrens python from VPI lineage compared with a Cape York Spotted, respectively. The differences are pretty obvious in pure species, but many have been crossed, and look like intermediates of the two. Mine are as pure as they come.


Justin

AAR

That Childrens is really nice, I need some of those someday. I am hoping to get eggs from my Cape Yorks this year, I think all the smaller Pythons are very under rated. Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

Wow Justin
Those spotteds are nice. I remember Ben telling me you guys were getting some and I wasnt all that interested b/c Im not particularly a big fan of the spotteds. But Ive never seen some like yours. Thanks for igniting an interest.

For all of you who like childrens here is a female that Justin produced from his VPI line of childrens. Ive raised this girl from a baby. She started out with spotts like most do and she has faded really well. I treasure her the most out of all my animals. She is an angel. Thanks for such a beautiful animal Justin.

Brendan