Jungles tend to get 5 to 8 feet and coastals get about 7 to 10 feet, though some get 13+! So I'm really hoping she doesn't get much longer than 8 feet. I wanted a jungle because of their supposed docility as adults, their striking black and gold colors, and they are not super long. A 5 foot ball python will weigh as much or more than a 7 foot jungle carpet. The coastal carpets aren't quite as bright. So I guess is the point of crossing the two to get the jungle's coloring but the coastal's size?

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0.1 jungle/coastal carpet python: Sheila
1.0 anerythristic boa constrictor imperator: Severus Snake
1.1 rats: Eowyn, Gandalf
1.0 ferret: Walker Texas Ranger
0.0.1 gold fish: Tiger
3.0 dogs: Strider (Aussie/husky), Zoso (Belgian Malinois), Buck (husky/Rottweiler)

Docility? Last year with 190 adult snakes the only one that bit me was a jungle carpet. She also bit my daughter Becca.

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Sheila is not too awful bad now. I can pick her up off the ground usually if she's not in shed, but I have to use a coat hanger to hook her off a branch. I even used her in a demonstration for my class I teach (a biology lab for non-science undergrads) and she was well behaved. They always seem to be in strike position though...

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0.1 jungle/coastal carpet python: Sheila
1.0 anerythristic boa constrictor imperator: Severus Snake
1.1 rats: Eowyn, Gandalf
1.0 ferret: Walker Texas Ranger
0.0.1 gold fish: Tiger
3.0 dogs: Strider (Aussie/husky), Zoso (Belgian Malinois), Buck (husky/Rottweiler)

shedoesn't look like a jungle + coastal. more just looks like a jungle + jungle are a closer relative. but then again, i don't know that much about carpet breeds.

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The only time I have ever worked with Jungle Carpet Python they didn't quite look like that, so it has to be a cross. As for docile, they were considered more aggressive that the other snakes I was dealing with but I never have been bit by one yet. Good luck finding out what cross she is.

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Unless you know the snake's ancestrial background, it's purely speculation and not fact when it comes to what your carpet is a cross of...or if it is a cross in the first place. I've seen lots of crosses that look pure, and vise versa. It looks like a cross to me. Post some pics after it gets more size and age, after the colors develop a bit it will be easier to speculate as to what it was crossed with(if it is a cross in the first place). I noticed that you said you will be using mice to feed it...I hope you have a lot of them...even an adult IJ would need about 4-5 per meal, never mind a jungle, coastal, or cross.