About 6 months ago I came across a captive bred juvenile (approx. 4') Irian Jaya Carpet Python that had a stripe running along each of his sides from his head to his tail. A trusted friend that works at the pet store called it a "Striped Carpet Python" and said that it was quite rare in the sense that it was a genetic stripe and not one caused by incubation temperatures. He called the reptile distributor and they said it was an Irian Jaya with a genetic stripe. I'm just curious if anyone knows how common these are, or if there's another name for them because I can't find any on kingsnake.com He started off tame but has gotten rather aggressive over the last few months and I'm looking to sell him to make room for other projects, but I haven't seen another one so I don't know what he is worth. Regular adult Irian Jaya Carpet Pythons sell for $250-$300 all the time so I figured one with a genetic stripe would be worth more, but how much? Any help or information would be greatly appreciated.
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Striped Irian Jaya Carpet Python Availabliity??
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Do you have any pics? I have been breeding them for years now and I regularly get some with a stripe on each side. Have never sold them as anything special because of the regularity of the marking. I have looked it up also and never found anyone selling them as striped either.
I just took pictures tonight so I'll hopefully load them onto the computer tomorrow. I live up in VT where we get an extremely limited selection (most things can be ordered though) and a striped IJ Carpet Python isn't common by any means around here and I've never found any that look like mine online. Would you happen to have any pictures of the striped ones you've bred?
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1.0 Anery Columbian Redtail Boa
1.0 Striped Irian Jaya Carpet Python
0.1 Gray Banded Kingsnake
1.1 Ball Python
1.0 Sunglow Striped Corn
1.1 Leopard Gecko (Male-Albino, Female-Reduced Pattern)
I dont have any digital pics but I'll see if I can get someone to scan them on to a disk for me. I am looking for more males for my breeding pojects let me know?
