Reddit reviews Complete Carpet Python, A Comprehensive Guide to the Natural History, Care, and Breeding of the 'Morelia spilota' Complex

Size is going to be more or less the same between the two, adult size is going to be highly dependent on how much you feed them. I slow grow my animals and my male Jungle is a little over 2 years old and 4ft, 398g. If you do the whole feed it large meals once a week thing you can easily end up with a 400-700g animal in the space of a year. To give you an idea I fed him every 10 days up until he was a year old just about, then every 2 weeks, and once he hit 2 he's been getting a weaned rat every 3 weeks. I've never pushed large meals. I don't expect him to get any larger than 600-800g.

IJs go for $150-250 usually, real Jungles go for $250-500 depending on the line and quality of the parents. Cheap undocumented Jungles that may or may not turn yellow go for $100-150.

In terms of temperament I think IJs tend to be a little nicer as babies but you can get a shit head of either species so just go with what you like better. 99% of them will all tame down with patience and age. Buy a hook.

As for breeders, Nick Mutton (Inland Reptile) is always who I recommend first. He's the largest Carpet Python breeder in the US and works with everything pretty much. All of his animals come with lineage charts and they're all what he says they are. He wrote The Complete Carpet Python which is a coveted book in the Morelia community. My Jungle is from him and he's great to work with.

He and Justin Julander quite literally wrote the book on morelia keeping, The Complete Carpet Python. Beyond that his reputation is stellar in the business. If you get a chance listen to some of his interviews on Morelia Python Radio. Hell just listen to MPR regardless who the guest is. Lots of good info to be gleaned for anyone interested in snake keeping in general.

Complete Carpet Python :)