carpet or diamond????

[ackie]

[b][i]
hi ppl
i hav had this so called carpet python for almost 2 yrs now
she used to look like a costal carpet python, but her patterns hav now changed and she is lookn a lot like a diamond python.
talk about confusing.
i think the guy must hav went into the bush and found a clutch of eggs while mummy python was away, and not realising that he had got the wrong spilota.
anyway i spoke to a lady from the national parks and she said that i could be a throw back. she said that out every 5000 carpet pythons one will turn into a diamond python.
am i lucky or hav i been conned into buying a wild cought snake?
i think i hav been conned.
wat do u think????

[Bendragon]

Have you got a photo you can upload onto the site so we can have a look at the snake. When you bought the snake were you sold a Wild Caught animal or was it Captive Bred. As Carpet x Diamond's can happen (although rarely) in the wild, most are cross bred by breeders (who know's why) but they are for sale none the less.

Ben

[grahamh]

How big is she - maybe a photo then and now might give us a clue.

Do the Coastal Carpets have the same number of Labial Pits as the Diamond - I'm not sure.

[pythonss]

hi everyone.
in the northern range of the diamond pythone there are natural intergrades..this is the name given to diamond x coastal carpet

there is also a few around that are breeding true intergrades but there are also people crossbreeding this species with the wrong form being used such as diamond x south east queensland coastal carpets. this is not the true form of intergrade.
as for the lady at the parks department saying one out of every 500 turn into a diamond.. that is absolute rubbish i would put her on the spot and ask her to back that statement up with some sort of proof , but thats just me.
anyway the only way a diamond can come out of a carpet is if they have shared bloodline..in which case to intergrades will produce all intergrades of differant visual degrees. if uyou pair a diamond with a carpet you will then get a mixture of visual diamonds, visual carpets and visual intergrades.
a throw back comes when there is a say carpet line that has diamond blood maybe as far back as grand parents..then every now and again you will get a throw back to a previous bloodline..

like the others have said with out a pic to look at we cant say what you have one way or the other..
but hope the info provided helps in some way..
cheers paul.

[Magpie]

If one of the original wild caught predecessors was an intergrade that looked like a coastal, I'd assume it was possible to get a throwback to the diamond patterning. Maybe it would require the genes be in both parents but it's always possible the parents were related too. :roll:
I have an intergrade that came from the wild. She looked like a coastal to start but is getting the diamond colouration but with coastal patterning. See my gallery if you are interested. Does yours look like a true diamond (ie with diamond colour and pattern?)
I would say if it started life looking like a coastal but changed to look like a diamond, it must be an intergrade as all the diamond hatchlings I have seen look like diamonds. But I haven't seen that many and am not a diamond fan so don't know much about them.