Floyd emerged from his egg as a 15 gram hatchling on the 9th of January 2002. He was part of a true locality-specific clutch produced from F1 captive bred adults. Those adults were produced by a pair of true Merauke (Tanah Merah) tree pythons.

     The albino strain originated with the 2 Merauke animals imported by Bushmaster Reptiles in 1995. After arriving in the United States, those animals resided in the collection of Vida Preciosa International where they produced a clutch of 13 eggs in 1996. I was able to acquire 3 of the resulting hatchlings. Those hatchlings (2.1) were raised here in our facility, and in November of 2001, the female produced a clutch of 23 eggs, 11 of which were fertile. Those 11 eggs hatched on the 9th of January 2002. Two of the animals in the clutch were amelanistic. Unfortunately, a complication with a dermal fungus claimed one of the two albinos, but the other continues to thrive. The remaining albino was determined to be a male in November of 2002. The mass of the albino on the 20th of July 2003 was 315 grams and his diameter at mid-body is roughly 1 1/2".