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Hello Everyone!

So my boyfriend and I recently moved into a new house and we're expanding our reptile collection. So far we have 2 Leopard Geckos, 2 Chinese Water Dragons, 2 Brown Anoles and their 2 babies (I need to separate them before I'm run over with Anoles!), 1 Ornery Tokay Gecko, 1 Ball Python and 1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa. Our garage is insulated and is heated so I'm building some cages to house my snakes in the garage. Once cage is going to have 6 different sections and will house my Ball Pythons and Brazilian Rainbow Boa's. But I am also very interested in getting a pair of Jungle Carpet Pythons.

I've done some research and so far it seems like a lot of people keep pairs of these snakes together year round. Does anyone have any opinion on this? I'm thinking of building a cage that would be 4x2x5 for a pair of Jungle Carpet Pythons. Would this be large enough for a pair? What initially sparked my interest in these gorgeous snakes is a pair of them at my local reptile store. The owner is asking $500 for the pair, they look to be about 4-5ft long and in good health. But I think $500 is out of my price range at the moment. I looked around on the classified here and the price range seems to very dramatically. I've seen some 09 babies for $125 and then some for $450. What would you consider to be a good price for a quality pair of Jungle's? Also is there any way to be sure I'm getting a pure Jungle Carpet Python and not one that's been mixed with Diamond's or other species?

Sorry for the long post. I really appreciate any input!

Though some keep pairs together, snakes are solitary animals and seek each other only at breeding time. Keeping two together may cause stress, disease, and a big problem at feeding time. Constrictors are best fed inside their cage-virtually impossible with more than one snake in the cage. Putting a snake back in with another after it just ate with rodent odor on it is asking for trouble even if fed outside. Bill
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You get what you pay for bottom line. shop around trust me, Buying Jungles is an art. You want a bright yellow nice adult or a crap colored adult? Thats the difference from the 09s for 100 vs the 450's.

Id have to agree with the multiple housing thing, unless its breeding season and its a female colony why keep them together? That cage is way too big for a baby even a pair of babies.

As far as the purity, well thats just trusting the breeder. honestly with my jungles im not so keen on purity, as long as they look outstanding and are appealing. Not saying id go buy a known mutt, but theres lots of unknown lineage out there with fantastic animals youd turn down for no reason.
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Pat
"You keep WHAT in your freezer?" "Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

I keep carpets, lots of them.

I wanted to add that most of the hybridizing in jungles was done with diamonds, so thats what your really on the look out for, which is hard since lots of 75% dxj's look better than pure Jungles. Not many people were taking jungles to coastals, not saying it doesn't or hasn't happened (Especially recently with the morphs), I can also pretty much say no one ive ever heard of has crossed a bredli into a jungle.
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Pat
"You keep WHAT in your freezer?" "Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

I keep carpets, lots of them.