Malaysian Short-tailed Python AKA Blood Python (Python brongersmai) having a swim before being housed. | Reptile Garden

Malaysian Short-tailed python AKA Blood Python (Python brongersmai) on eggs. She is 17 years old and still dropping pearly white eggs for us. Now to take the eggs away. Sorry mommy but it is for the best. #python #bloodpython #pythoneggs #pythonbrongersmai #pythonsofinstagram | Reptile Garden

Part 2: Taking eggs from Big Girl Malaysian Short-tailed Python AKA Blood Python (Python brongersmai). She was amazingly calm and such a pleasure. The long tongue flicks show me she is not in a defensive mind set. If you just see the forkes of the tongue static in the mouth, then you know you in trouble. Then obviously hissing and heavy shrugging are more obvious. So we will see if we can bring them all to term but they not normally an issue. Basic mix of perlite and vermiculite at 50/50 at 31.5

Intermediate series: Blood & Short tailed Pythons (Python curtus, breitensteini & brongersmai) Blood Pythons are awesome snakes. Full of vim and vigour when awoken. An excellent example of what makes a next step snake. The three species of short-tailed pythons can be distinguished by small differences in head scalation. In blood pythons (P. brongersmai), the labial scales fill in the entire gap between the bottom of the eye and the lip - in Borneo short-tailed pythons (P. breitensteini) and Suma