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

Malaysian Short-tailed Pythons ( Python brongersmai) hatching. #python #pythonbrongersmaiofinstagram #bloodpython #snakehatching #snakesofinstagram | 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

My largest Malaysians Short-tailed Python (Python brongersmai) This girl is an absolute sweetheart, but you have to watch her feeding response. She once got me on the thumb and it felt like she was going to pull all the meat of the bone. Never once have I seen her go for something like that and I was just changing the waterbowl. Always a good wake up call when they get you. Luckily not something venomous. It is always best practice to let a snake know it is you so as to avoid a feeding response.

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