Double clutching pythons

[Splitmore]

Currently there is an ad on one of the herp classifieds for a pair of adult breeding darwin carpets, the asking price is $3000, a little high yes but on furthur enquiry with the seller these darwin apparently double clutch every year. According to 'Possum Pete' the female lays one clutch in april then another in august. He also claims to reguarly double clutch childrens as well. I've been breeding pythons for about 15 yrs and never had a python double clutch, I remeber a few years ago Dave Barker was asked the question on his web site and to his knowledge it had never been recorded anywhere in the world.
Would like like to hear from people like bigguy etc if they have ever double clutched pythons or has 'Possum Pete' uncovered the holy grail of python breeding?

[dugadugabowbow]

I thought the same thing about that, i remember a few years ago on a yahoo groups the double clutching debate came up. No one had ever had it happened but a few thought it could without any proof.
I never heard of anyone doing it, not anyone with proof anyway, i thinks it's virtually impossible for a python to do it twice in a season for many reasons.
Looking at the price of these snakes i doubt "Possum Pete" is a reliable source of info.

Steve.

[bigguy]

Splitmore, Possum Pete is the only person I have ever heard of that claimed they have double clutched pythons. I think you will find its a worlds first, and to have two pythons doing it is just plain amazing :roll:

[ether]

It wouldnt do the snake much good would it?

[blake_da_snake]

wat site is it on does it have pics

[Nome]

I'd say by the price of the snakes for a start he's just a Pak O' BS :wink:

Been a few around lately

[PilbaraPythons]

It might be like my double and triple clutchs of jungles in the past which were promptly seized by the fauna squad, it was found they all had seperate DNA. Nice try possum man

[Valley Reptile Supplies]

lmfao pilbara

[herptrader]

I have never heard of it before in Aussie pythons.

[Sdaji]

I've heard four or five people claiming to have double clutched pythons, spotted and Children's pythons, chondroes and now carpets. I take these reports about as seriously as I take most reptile anecdotes :roll: . It seems very unlikely that pythons can ever double clutch. Stranger things have happened and I wouldn't be 100% sure, but I'm fairly confidently guessing it will never be genuinely found to occur. I certainly know one possum I'll never buy anything from! :roll:

[BROWNS]

Here's a reply from Possum Pete..

I thought something was up got a weird email from a guy called Chris, says
he has been breeding for 15yrs and has never read about pythons double
cluctchin.
I told him to talk to Russell grant, roy pails, daniel fitzgerald.
They have all done it, they have all done papers on it.

Just relaying an email....

[africancichlidau]

Bit wider than April and August but my Childreni hatched out in Feb and then again in November in 2004. I now keep them seperated unless for mating.

[peterescue]

I had to double clutch my old truck

Possum pete like have you seen the pics there is something in the water bowl it just looks grotty to me an pilbarra might be right Some colubrids can double clutch eg corns but i dont know with pythons never heard of it. :

[BROWNS]

Say what????You been licking toads again olddude