How To Breed Carpet Pythons! - no. 205

[@jakehole-the.ophidiarium5267]

Great video! Thanks for putting these details together into a straight forward video.

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Thank you! Glad you found it helpful!

[@CrownedForCreation]

Thanks for sharing this! Definitely super helpful as I inch my way closer to the finish line of breeding! Excited for what you produce this coming season!!! 🙌

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Thank you very much. I appreciate your comment and response. I know I’m no authority on the species and have sorta been on the fringes, but I had folks asking about this one

[@oldbronco7340]

❤ the video series on breeding idea

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Thank you! Hopefully I can make the next few up to par to cover the spread

[@ModernReptile]

Thanks for the info 🙏

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

You’re very welcome!

[@LetsTalkHerps]

Interesting! Great to see this channel continue growing! Keep em coming.

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Thanks so much! I really appreciate the support.

[@Moser72]

Nice

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Much appreciated! Thank you!

[@oldbronco7340]

The intro was great! 😂😂

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Haha thanks man! I appreciate that

[@cleanballsuk]

The intro would work perfectly for a ball python breeding video 🤣

[@joshuacresswell7673]

This was really great simplified and clear outline for breeding. Was a pleasure to watch Riley

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Great to hear! Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate that. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@michaeltroso9432]

can you show your lay bin setup? Love the video

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Thank you very much! I don’t use lay bins. I let the snakes lay wherever they want

[@hellhathfurywedie9319]

Moved into my new place Thanksgiving day. Burm got to free roam in the new snake room and showed me it wasn't snake proof. She was on her own for 4 days with 39 degree weather at night. Searched all weekend and found her on pretty cold concrete when I got off work which is a further drive. I didn't have much time to search the past 2 days. Slowly warmed her the past 3 hours and I will not sleep much tonight checking on her. She must have found a hole that I missed and the concrete was probably warm around lunch. Been having mild heart attacks

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

I’m glad you found her!! Yikes! That’s scary!……might I ask how my Carpet Python breeding video prompted this response? Just curious…

[@hellhathfurywedie9319]

@Rileys-Reptiles I just think you are a cool ass dude and I love what you are doing. I never thought the reptile industry would have grown into what it is when I was kid and my first snake at 40 years old 2 years ago has awakened my obsession!

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

I’m just a normal guy doing what I enjoy. Happy to have had a positive impact on your life even in a little way. Love reptiles my friend!

[@NorthCountryReptiles]

great video, love this topic especially because majority of carpet info on KZbin is keeping and not geared towards breeding.

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Thank you! Not sure why I never put this together a while before, but hey, seems to be well received so far!

[@ernesteison7979]

This vid, is a good blueprint for breeding almost everything, snake-wise at least. Prolific reptile author and federal informant Richard(DICK)Bartlett said he had carpets in his collection in the late 50s. I first bred "Jungles" 82ish from a pair I got from Hank Molt in 1978 ($375pr) CBs were available in the 60s. The idea you have to get Diamonds cold to breed them or keep them healthy. Like a lot of things is collector lore. The world of collectors/breeders is 25% fact 25% myth and 50% how they interpret those two things.

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Very interesting to learn. Thank you

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Have you kept and bred diamonds?

[@ernesteison7979]

@@Rileys-Reptiles Yeah, my diamonds came from the same place the SD Zoo got theirs, maybe from the same group. I kept and bred them like anything else. Most boas and pythons take cold equally well in controlled doses. For many years, early 70s into the late 80s the Philly Zoo had a pair of super overfed diamonds they got from Hank. They kept them like any other python. I remember John Ruiz was breeding diamonds in the very early 80s. Stan Chiras (pronounced Sheer-Ass) says he was the first to breed them around 1988. I think in the mid-2ks, Chiras wrote another one of his beautiful husbandry articles in Reptiles mag, this one about keeping and breeding diamonds. He should have written an article about all the animals he killed with his lousy care. Crutchfield left " his Diamonds" outside in the cold and froze them to death, along with a bunch of other stuff. The history of diamonds is so convoluted. All the bloodline stuff etc. The people telling the stories weren't there.

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

That’s fascinating herpetological history to be tuned into. I appreciate your insight and sharing. I am grateful to keep learning more. Thank you very much!

[@oldbronco7340]

Is there an incubator you recommend?

[@Rileys-Reptiles]

Unfortunately all the commercial incubators are expensive. Hot Box incubators makes great pvc incubators. I made mine out of a used Sobe drink refrigerator. Replaced the stock fan and motor with a computer fan, added some heat tape down the back, and that’s more or less it. Works like a charm!