Any carpet breeders out there?

A friend if mine is looking an 88% jungle jag. Does any1 kno any breeders or where he cud find 1? Cheers

I don't think there are too many of those over here yet ....
May have to search on the mainland or europe if he wants one of these

Send Morelia a pm he'll be able to point you in the right direction

You could also try [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Paul Harris seems to be a well trusted breeder he has 2 88% jungle jags listed on his site.

Marty

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The thing worth keeping in mind with the Jaguar intergrades is that the higher percentage crosses don't always equate to better looking snakes. I have kept 50%, 75% and 88% Jungle Jags and the best looker I had, and stupidly sold, was a belter 50%er. I'd go by colouration and patterning rather than just by the %age figure if your friend wants a really good Jungle Jag.

What is the average size of an adult male and female?

88%ers will have, in theory at least, 88% Jungle influence and 12% Coastal carpet influence and so will therefore tend to reach the sizes you would expect a Jungle carpet to reach - I have an adult male Jungle here that is touching the 7ft mark although some can approach the 8ft mark in old age.

A lot depends on the lineage of the Jungle(s) used in the breeding projects - some 'localities' of Jungle carpet remain small whereas others approach the size of Coastal carpets - and also the locality of Coastal carpet used as, again, some localities get bigger than others.

how do you determin the percentage of the hatchlings? i am planning to breed my coastal jag to my jungle in a few years time, what is the cluctch gonna come out like,i know i should be doing this research myself which i am doing but thought it would be good to ask someone with experience in this matter

The percentages are easy to work out - if you breed a Coastal Jag to a Jungle, the hatchlings will all be 50% Coastal and 50% Jungle as they (in theory at least) get half of their make-up from each parent....so these Jags and siblings will be 50%ers and are called 50% Jungle Jags and 50% Jungle Jag siblings.

If you then breed a 50% Jungle Jag with a Jungle again, the make-up of the hatchlings becomes more Jungle than Coastal with the proportion being halved - so the result from this breeding becomes 75% Jungle Jags and 75% Jungle Jag siblings.

And so it goes on......the highest percentage Jags produced so far are 88%ers although the first 94%ers aren't far away.