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Here's my male, I will snap a pic of my female asap Tom Stevens

>>Here's my male, I will snap a pic of my female asap Tom Stevens

That is one awesome Spotted. I am completely new to Antaresia. Can you explain what to look for in Cape York spotteds? One thing that strikes me is that yours has bigger spots as my normal Spotted.

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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield
http://www.marcelpoots.com

Hey Marcel, I honestly can't answer your question. The particular pictures that got me interested in these Capes had some yellow in the color scheme. I actualy begged someone who had a pair and eggs cooking to let me put a deposit down a good 6 months before they'd be ready fro sale because I wanted one so bad. Unfortunately that clutch went bad and the adults were sold off. Many of the ones I see now are very dark. Matter of factly I have been told to expect these to possibly take on a more olive greenish ground color? I figured I would get any pair I could and keep searching for the brighter ones and possibly add and extra female to my group. VPI sold off thiers as well, and I can't find out who has them. Worst of all is the fact that the original ones which were responsible for most of all the ones available today date back so many years no one can prove with ease that theirs are truly Capes, and not too many people care. I wrote Bob Clark, VPI, and a few others who now work with them and I feel as if I can't find the ones like the original pics I saw.......I will just have to hope mine are what they're supposed to be. I do enjoy your pics on the other forums, you have some very nice snakes. Tom Stevens

Tom,
I have a pair of cape yorks that are the direct decendants of the pythons pictured in Pythons of Australia, they parent of my snakes are a little over 5 feet long, with the same green background that yours shows. Mine are a very bright green, with so much irredecence that sometimes the whole snake looks blue. My female is currently gravid, and I should have eggs in a month or so. Ill post pics of the pair in the next few days.
eliot stone
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1.1 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1 Suriname Red Tailed Boas
and always looking for more!

I hope that things go well for you. Are you going to let the snake maternally incubate them? A few people I have talked too swear it's the best way for the smaller Pythons. I myself do not know if I would try that. I have succesfully produced just about every type of common colubrid but the only Pythons I own are Womas and the Capes and I have no experience with either of them yet. I am going to start warming the Womas up and get them feeding again any day now. Keep me posted on your progress. I am not sure I will buy any more Pythons til I produce some myself but any which way I am very interested to see how you do. Take care Tom Stevens

I believe that mine are also from VPI Lineage.......but the casual way people refer to the Capes and difficulty in proving their heritage makes me wonder. I like all the small Pythons, but I will always be on the lookout for Spotteds with yellow on them. I think it sucks that the Capes were not appreciated and that though people knew all descended from 1.1 or 2.2 the locale still apprently slipped into uncertainty. Most people I know flip for the Granites, I have never seen an adult worthy of praise but of course to each his own and that's just an opinion. I do see a little more interest in the small Pythons in general lately and that is very cool ttyl Tom Stevens

>>Tom,
>> I have a pair of cape yorks that are the direct decendants of the pythons pictured in Pythons of Australia, they parent of my snakes are a little over 5 feet long, with the same green background that yours shows. Mine are a very bright green, with so much irredecence that sometimes the whole snake looks blue. My female is currently gravid, and I should have eggs in a month or so. Ill post pics of the pair in the next few days.
>>eliot stone

Little over 5' long? Little over 150 cm long? That is huge man. Do you have pictures or a website?
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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield
http://www.marcelpoots.com