Morelia amethistina

Here is my 5/6 years old female from Merauke :

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Lovely looking specimen!

A very very nice looking species and specimen!
The grow up very large, so how large is yours after 5/6 years?
If I have the space and would add a Python to my collection, this can be one.

Thanks to both of you. That female is approximately 3 meters long, maybe a little bit more and she's still growing and shedding regularly. So far, my (little) experience with this species and different meeting with amethistina breeders make me think the growth is quite slow and that they reach their definitive lenght around 7/8 years old. That one will probably reach 350 / 380 cm. Despite the lenght, this is a very slender animal.

Thanks fir that qick update, only 3-4 meters. Thats a size that will be good
to work with. When I here something about sizes of this
species, I've here from specimens of 5-6 Meters, maby only tales...
They told that this species can each lenghts close to
reticulatus. But will this depend to localities were they
come from. But still a very nice species, and when I'm right - not often bred?!

Peter, not as often reproduced as Morelia viridis or Crotalus atrox you're right, but not that rare, there has been some reproductions in Europe and there will be some others.

5/6 meters ? Hahahaha, peoples.... No. Size is 3.5/4 meters. Maybe you've read or heard things about Australian scrub python which is in fact Morelia kinghorni and can reach 5 meters yes. Sometimes a little bit more.

Despite the fact I probably don't have enough experience with venomous snake, I think Morelia amethistina is one of the most difficult snake to handle, due to its large size, slender body (Where a 3 meters Python molurus will weight 35 kg, a 4 meters Morelia amethistina will weight between 8 and 12 kg only), agility, impresive intelligence, attack distance, looooong teeth and an exacerbated agressivity.
But one really fascinating and robust snake. Some locality are truly amazing.

You are right Johannes , this people talk about australian ,, Amethyst's''
its long time gone, and I'm not very familar with taxonomicl changes in
thus group. A lot has changed over the last decade. Thankts to update me!

You're welcome ! Any questions just ask.