This is my 5 year old male Diamond Python and my 11 year old female Jungle Carpet Python and some eggs she laid today. The female JCP was bred several times from 1996 to 2000 by two different male JCPs and produced a bunch of nice babies. I sold one of my male Jungle Carpets in 1999 and lost the other after breeding season in 2000. I have caged the female Jungle Carpet with this male Diamond Python for about a year. I saw him courting her several times over the last few months but never witnessed actual breeding. I suspected she was gravid but she was too big and muscular to tell for sure when I handled her. She has been very active the last two days and has cruised her cage like she was looking for something. She went into an inverted flowerpot this morning and began laying. I removed the flowerpot to take this PIC. The male was coiled on top of her. The eggs are in my modified hovabator incubating. There were 21 full size eggs that look good and 7 small off color "pills". I am generally against cross breeding snakes but the Diamond and Carpet Pythons in this country have been cross bred so much over the last 15 years that it is likely that most of them are already crosses. This female was sold to me as a JCP and she looked like the Barker's book cover black and yellow male JCP until she reached 7 feet in length and turned this more olive color. She very well may be a cross of some sort. I think my male Diamond is full Diamond based upon his color and pattern which is an admittedly weak method of identification.
Jeff
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Off topic. EGGS!!!!
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"dont be afraid to die, only be afraid to not live"
"dont become classified. if you are nothing, then you can be anything."
Live birth is pretty damn cool, but hatching eggs is amazing!
I hope you get a nice litter.
Linda
