and the award for silliest thing said at IRS expo goes to...

[saximus]

yeah peter because a train goes though the middle of someones backyard and is covered in scales

Umm he was being sarcastic because nothing like what you are describing exists

 

[cris]

For all of you that have this fantasy dream of 12-15 foot carpets snap out of it as you look very foolish!

There was a reward offered by a member of this site over a few years of quite a large sum of money for conclusive proof of such and yes no one can provide it so his money is and always was safe!

As far as i know nothing has ever been payed despite the person seeing 2 carpets over 3m in a farily short peroid of time in urban areas, plus plenty of others who have found animals over that length. Its not something you see everyday but carpets can get well over 3m.

Lambert,
There is NO Diamond pythons in QLD... let a lone world record breaking sized ones.

All east coast carpets are the same as 'diamonds' are you racist?

 

[DanTheMan]

This is the biggest "Maleny Diamond" I have ever seen, what size do you guys reckon it is? Must be close to 15ft. Sorry about the picture quality and lack of its full body.

 

[dangles]

:?nice diamond:?

looks more like a BHP to me

 

[grizz]

This is the biggest Maleny Diamond I have ever seen, what size do you guys reckon it is? Must be close to 15ft. Sorry about the picture quality and lack of its full body.

6ft, that's a midget wrangling a spotted python

 

[Australis]

All east coast carpets are the same as 'diamonds' are you racist?

Im not racist no.I would probably side with your lumping though.

 

[James..94]

:?nice diamond:?

looks more like a BHP to me

Na mate Keelback!!

 

[bigfella77]

On the hunt for the pics already,

 

[DanTheMan]

Another pic but still not a full body shot. It is being held well infront of its tail as high as I can. Any guesses?

 

[dangles]

how tall are u dan?

 

[saximus]

how tall are u dan?

Was gonna ask the same thing. Unless you're 7' tall I wouldn't say it's 15' snake

 

[Specks]

Probe 8.5-9.5 ft long probably, nice find aye
Also a great "maleny diamond" ;-) haha

 

[Jonno from ERD]

I was just pointed in the direction of this thread...I can't remember exactly what my original offer was, and I've tried searching for the thread but I can't find it. From memory, it was a carton to see any Morelia spilota species over 10 feet long (which has cost me just one carton, to John Cann) and $10,000 to simply measure any of the Carpet species over 12 feet.

The Carpet that was caught by Greg Hollis and others was only 11 feet 4 inches.

 

[dangles]

if your around 6ft dan im guessing approx11-12ft long

 

[bigfella77]

Was it bigger than the snake in Dan's pictures?

Yes, although it was a bit leaner. From memory it was caught in early spring.

 

[cement]

I own the largest diamond I have ever seen and she is 2.75m (9ft).
I also have been relocating snakes here on the central coast for years and see a hell of a lot of diamonds.
The text books max them out at 3m, well even the very old females that are declining on their way to death from old age, still haven't beaten 2.7m.
I would be very impressed to see a diamond over 9.5 ft

 

[Jonno from ERD]

It's big - but without a tape measure over it, who knows?

It's interesting to note that three out of four of the 3.1m + Carpets I have seen have been slender. The overweight one had been kept in squalor and pumped full of food for years, before it was handed over to a wildlife park.

 

[DanTheMan]

I'm just over 6ft (1.9m)

 

[kawasakirider]

Don't snakes have indeterminate growth? This conflicts with anything said about a snakes maximum size, so I don't understand how it could be true. Could explain huge snakes, though.

 

[saximus]

Do they grow until they die but once they reach "max" length the growth slows so much that it's basically imperceptible. That's how it's been explained to me anyway