Ok, this is from my very limited experience!!
At present i have my new baby coastal female in a 1.5 cube viv with plenty of cover and climbing opportunity. She seems happy enough and I'm planning on her staying there for a couple of months till she grows a bit and i am confident that i can spot her in a 3ft viv without having to go searching!!
My yearling jungle jag is in a 3.5x 1.5 viv with plenty of cover and branches. She's ok in there at the minute but I'm planning on moving her up to the 4x2x3.5 that my other jungle is in when his new viv is built.
Obviously coastals get bigger than jungles, especially the females. So I would plan on a min of 4x2x2 for a coastal, maybe needing a 5x2x2 for a big girl!!
I like to give them a bit more height so I'm planning on all of mine having 3ft high vivs.
My coastal is only a few months old, and eating a rat pinkie roughly every 5 days but is just about ready for 2 at a go i think so that will be every 7 days.
My jungle jag female is around a year or so, she still eats roughly once a week and has just moved up to small rats.
My husbands jungle is around 18months and eats 1 medium rat every 10-14 days.
These guys are all fit and healthy, they come out 3 or 4 times a week for social and exericse.
If they take more than 3 days to get rid of the belly bulge then i rethink the meal spacings.
Just my personal experience and views, feel free to disagree!!:whip:

 

Thanks that helped so much :2thumb:

Where would you get your cages from and do you have any pics of your carpets?

Oh and do you use ash ceramic heaters

Thanks:notworthy:

 

i have 4 hatchlings and they are in 18ltr rubs at the moment. Its crap to look at but its a cheap way to house them for now as the smallest 2 could fit in the bulb guards and also fit inbetween the glass on some vivs.

After that id just put them straight into their adult vivs with plenty of cover.

Personally as i want to keep quite a few in limited space mine are all in 4x2x2 (wooden vivs at the moment but im changing to plastic vivs from nonstopreptiles on here)
If i was just keeping 1 id increase the height to whatever i can fit in the space. They are definitely a species that will use the most of whats given.

 

So are you saying as soon as the carpet python comes out of its first box they can go straight into there massive enclosure. I have heard this can cause stress.

And will a exo terra faunarium large be fine until then

Thanks : victory:

 

any snake will get stressed if you dont provide ample cover. Im not saying chuck a 6 month old carpet in 4x2x2 with a perch and 1 hide. But a yearling carpet could happily live in an adult viv with plenty of hides and fake decorations. Its entirely up to you obviously how you decide to kit them out. Unless you hatch your own the earliest your gonna buy one is when its a few months old at a guess. Then once its outgrown its faunarium itl likely be over a year old anyway and starting to grow fairly fast.

Im just saying personally i dont buy upgrade vivs i just put them in their rubs until they out grow them then stick them in big vivs. If you wanted to upgrade the vivs as it grows thats cool, but i dont have the space and dont want to spend the money on just growing vivs if im honest. The only thing i really change is viv decor as they grow cos once they get a certain size they mostly just squash and ruind any decorations so once they are a few years old i just have plain looking vivs with a few tubes as perches

Theres plenty of ways to skin a cat just use common sence and read the animal.:2thumb:

 

so what age do you reckon the carpet python will grow out of its exo terra faunarium

 

My hubby is a bit of a DIY enthusiast so he builds all of our vivs.
I'd agree with Tim, my guy's only have up graded viv sizes because i happen to have various sizes around. If i didn't they'd start out in a rub and go straight into a full size viv with plenty of cover. Here's a few pics of my setups and carpets.

Viv stack, heated by mats. Not ideal but usually housed corn snakes.


Bob's viv. AHS heater in this, gives a nice heat gradient.


The baby viv!!

New coastal female (no name yet!!)

Bob, jungle carpet.


Alice, my jungle jag angel!!

 

wow alice is stunning and so are your set ups. please may I ask what size your baby viv is and how you heat it ?

Thanks:no1:

 

Yes, yes she is!! I am extremely biased when it comes to her!!
The coastal is just a tiny thing, got her from a local reptile shop and not sure exactly how old she is. Not more than a couple of months we think, but she's strike feeding from her high perch and seems happy enough.
The baby viv has a heat mat inside on the bottom covered by a ceramic floor tile. She has a couple of hides over the tile and she goes down there when she's digesting, the rest of the time she gets as high as she can!!

 

nice what hides would you use for an adult carpet python: victory:

 

This is part of a recently completed stack of three vivariums all measuring 1200mm x 600mm x 600mm with the added shelf to create a better temperature gradient. We believe these are being used to house Morelia species particularly carpet pythons and feel this to be more than suitable for the majority of species except the odd overly large specimen.

We personally keep Morelia Viridis amongst other things and have the following housing arrangements;

Hatchling – Yearling – 3L Really Useful Box

Yearling – Sub-Adult – 19L Really Useful Box

Sub-Adult – Adult – 42L Really Useful Box

Adult – 1200mm (W) x 600mm (D) x 1100mm (H) NSR Plastic Vivarium

The final vivarium size is such that it utilises the sheet size perfectly when we manufacture our vivariums but also offers our larger animals room to roam throughout there periods of activity and provides a larger thermal gradient.

NonStop Reptiles

 

This is part of a recently completed stack of three vivariums all measuring 1200mm x 600mm x 600mm with the added shelf to create a better temperature gradient. We believe these are being used to house Morelia species particularly carpet pythons and feel this to be more than suitable for the majority of species except the odd overly large specimen.

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We personally keep Morelia Viridis amongst other things and have the following housing arrangements;

Hatchling – Yearling – 3L Really Useful Box

Yearling – Sub-Adult – 19L Really Useful Box

Sub-Adult – Adult – 42L Really Useful Box

Adult – 1200mm (W) x 600mm (D) x 1100mm (H) NSR Plastic Vivarium

The final vivarium size is such that it utilises the sheet size perfectly when we manufacture our vivariums but also offers our larger animals room to roam throughout there periods of activity and provides a larger thermal gradient.

NonStop Reptiles

Do you know how this stack is going to be heated?

 

Thanks alot:2thumb:

 

From hatchling in a standard 2ft vivexotic..




Then at 8-9 months old she got upgraded to a 4x3x2ft (LxHxD)


(top half, the middle was for a corn)



Taken before her first birthday (on a standard washing rotary..)

 

as long as your hatchling is not a nervous feeder,it can go right into a 4x2x2ft viv,just make sure it has plenty,hides,branches and fake plants

i feed every 7 days up until sub adulthood,when i feed larger prey less ofter,1 large prey item every 2 to 4 weeks

i go by how the Carpet looks regard feeding schedules,i keep my Carpets lean and muscular,if they look like they're getting fat i cut the feeds back

adults i only feed 3 or 4 times per winter

i put my hatchlings straight onto rat pups

a Carpet Python will take prey 3,4,5 times their girth without issues

i use non light emmiting ceramic bulbs to heat my viv's,i found they are better for ambient air temperatures

cheers shaun

 

Here's the full chart if it helps

 

Here's the full chart if it helps
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Hey, this chart confuses me. I've had my Jag Carpet Python for three weeks now and fed her two fuzzies. I'd say she's about 15" in length. Is the food too small? I don't get it at all! Haha, any help would be appreciated.

Cheers!
Marc

Ps the pic in my signature is only last week, here's one when I just got her that shows her length a little better. That tank is two foot (temp until she's bigger).

Last week before. Changing the viv...

And a few days ago on her last feed

Any and all advise is welcome!

 

As already mentioned 4x2x2 vivs are a minimum for carpets but they will always use as much space as you give them! I have many times put hatchlings straight into vivs normally without issues however occasionally some will go off there food and prefer to be in a rub!
Food wise as soon as you can get them onto rat pups the better and weekly feeding until they hit medium rats normally works well at which point I normally move to every two or three weeks!

 

Ah, I see! Okay well that's actually really helpful then.
What size would you say she should be feeding on? If you don't mind me asking.
I was thinking of moving her up from fuzzies.

 

Looking at your pics you can move her up a size no problems