PLEASE NOTE: We do not have any snakes for sale at the moment. We decided to take a year off from breeding and do not expect to have any hatchlings this year.

If you need help with a snake that you bought from us, please feel free to contact us any time at (207) 684-3539 or by email.

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Green Tree Pythons

Scientific Name: Morelia viridis ( formerly Chondropython viridis )
Common Names: GTP, Chondro, Green Tree Python

The Green Tree Python is a very beautiful, small, arboreal, nocturnal python from the rain forests of New Guinea and some of the surrounding islands that are part of Indonesia. It is also found on the Cape York Peninsula of northern Australia. The habitat of the GTP is wild, remote, diverse, and gorgeous, with varied terrain and landscape.

The most intriguing aspect of keeping a green tree python is undoubtedly their ontogenetic color change. Usually born yellow or maroon, at about one year old, green tree pythons gradually change to their adult coloration. One of our favorite things about GTP's is that they are just like snowflakes, every one looks a bit different.

Our Collection of Green Tree Pythons

Carpet Pythons

Scientific Name: Morelia spilota
Common Names: Carpet Python, Carpets

One of the most common pet snakes available for a good reason - Carpets are attractive hearty individuals that do well in the terrarium and breed reliably. There are about a dozen recognized types but the reality is that they have been so heavily cross bred in captivity that the vast majority of available animals are at least a slight mix.

Here at Spruce Nubble Farm our primary focus on Carpets is about the relationship we believe they have with the Green Tree Python. It is our opinion that these animals are not in fact separate species but variants, our work with Carpondros is focused on proving fully fertile hybrids.

Our Collection of Carpet Pythons

"Snoopy" Sex: Female Type: Jungle Born: 2001	"Gandolph" Sex: Male Type: Jungle Born: 2003	"Dos Lunas " Sex: Female Type: Jungle Born: 2004
"Merlin" Sex: Male Type: Jaguar Born: 2007	"Morgan le Faye" Sex: Male Type: Tiger Born: 2007

Carpondros

Scientific Name: Morelia spilota X Morelia viridis
Common Names: Carpondro

A Carpondro is a hybrid between a Carpet Python and a Green Tree Python.

It is our belief that Carpet Pythons and Green Tree Pythons are not in fact different species but varieties of one animal. This has been suggested by many people and in fact Hoser even makes reference to GTP's as Morelia spilota viridis in a 90's paper. Very little is known of the area where the natural range crosses and no breeding has ever been observed, no hatching eggs have ever been photographed in the wild.

The possibility of wild Carpondros is very real.

We are proud to have three bloodlines here at Spruce Nubble Farm and we are excited about the Carpondro x Carpondro pairings we have planned for the coming season. While carpondros have been shown to be fertile by breeding them back to carpets or GTP's we are not aware of any Carpondro x Carpondro pairings – should offspring be produced by such work it is likely to have a substantial impact on our understanding of the taxonomy.

Our Collection of Carpondros