Ringed Python
(Bothrochilus Boa)

he Ringed Python, also known as the Bismark Ringed Python comes from the Bismark Archipelago, a chain of small islands off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea.

This is a medium size python reaching a maximum length of about six feet, they have fairly slender bodies and small heads for a python this size.

The pattern can be quite variable ranging from alternating bands of black and orange to an almost complete lack of black markings or they can have striped appearance.

The color of the babies is an absolutely spectacular flourescent orange against a velvet black. Unfortunately this only last about six months before they undergo an ontogenetic color change as they mature. Adult color is usually an orange brown or brown against black, still they are very attractive snakes with a very iridescent sheen and their heads appearing as if dipped into black laquer.


Ringed pythons are very easy to maintain, they are terrestrial in habit so they dont need much vertical space. I keep mine on about 2" of aspen bedding, into which they like to borrow. I also supply them with a plastic hide box loosely filled with moist sphagnum moss. They are a thin skinned species like reticulated and white lipped pythons and have trouble shedding if conditions are to dry.

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