Do I really want a Rock Python???

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Originally Posted by stangs13

Its 3 feet, i wont have it nearly long enough for it to reach 8!! :zerb: ;)

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If you find someone to take it within a year, consider yourself lucky

A year is a bit of an exaggeration for a timeline for an AfRock to hit 8', unless you continuously feed it. Most hit 8' around the time they're 18-20 months old. I am getting the animal though. He/She is going into my colony as a hopeful breeder. The color and pattern is heartstoppingly gorgeous on it...

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Originally Posted by AndrewH

A year is a bit of an exaggeration for a timeline for an AfRock to hit 8', unless you continuously feed it. Most hit 8' around the time they're 18-20 months old. I am getting the animal though. He/She is going into my colony as a hopeful breeder. The color and pattern is heartstoppingly gorgeous on it...

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Thats up to Momma T to post them if she'd like :P

Justin, I'd have to agree with AJ on this one. In my opinion your not ready for one. Even keeping it under a year...No sense in juggling it from owner to owner like that. It'll just put un-needed stress on the animal, and won't help much with keeping it calm, and tractable. Central Africans are in my opinion one of the hardest hitting giants in the hobby, if not the hardest hitting. Their feeding response is unmatched from what I've seen and the power they can put into a bite is impressive. I'd say their bite hurts worse than a Retics, Annies or Burms. I've been nailed by all 4. Especially when you get a 'chewer'. Their metabolism is impressive as well. They can take down larger prey than other giants their size, which shows they have some power to them and they're to be respected. Better you pass on this one Justin ;)

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Originally Posted by AndrewH

Justin, I'd have to agree with AJ on this one. In my opinion your not ready for one.

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Yea, I'm not even sure if I'm ready for an afrock, even though having a retic already. I just want one :)

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Originally Posted by AndrewH

I'd say their bite hurts worse than a Retics, Annies or Burms. I've been nailed by all 4. Especially when you get a 'chewer'.

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:O :O :O hurts harder than an annie's bite :O :O :O

I own all 4 and NOTHING compares to the bite of an annie! I hear an annie's bite being described as having a nail hammered into your chest/arm/leg/etc.

If anyone wants to volunteer to get bit by an annie...all you got to do is smell remotely like bird, fish, mammal, reptile, or amphibian and mine will get you ! :D

Jeez! Chill out, I understand I can't handle an afrock, I was just saying as a Just in case sort of thing, not as a permanent home. and AJ, your only a year older than me! :P i under stand, there is no way on gods green earth that I would keep a afrock at this age!! Atleast a bigger one.

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Originally Posted by stangs13

and AJ, your only a year older than me! :P i under stand, there is no way on gods green earth that I would keep a afrock at this age!! Atleast a bigger one.

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Only a year older? You do know I'm 17 right? Arent you like 14? 15 tops?

Afrocks are stronger than retics, it took me 20 minutes to get my 8' female retic out off a tree after photo time was done. WOulda taken me near an hour to get an afrock outta a tree :P .

Actually, I've been bit by Burms, Annies, Retics, Ameys, Mollucans, Ball Pythons etc etc. In my opinion the AfRocks bite hurts alot more. If you can compare the bite of an Annie to a nail being hammered into an appendage, then compare an AfRocks bite to it being ripped open. I've taken a bite from my friends 12' Green female on my right hand, with a scar to prove, and then I took a bite on my left thigh from a 15' LTC female African Rock through blue jeans....and the AfRock bite hurt tons worse. In the wild African Rocks take down much larger prey on a more frequent basis than the other giants, and as such they need that tremendous bite force to help hang on and restrain their prey quickly so it doesn't escape.

Not saying an Annie bite doesn't hurt, it does....but in my opinion, not as much as an AfRocks

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Originally Posted by _BoidFinatic_

:O :O :O hurts harder than an annie's bite :O :O :O

I own all 4 and NOTHING compares to the bite of an annie! I hear an annie's bite being described as having a nail hammered into your chest/arm/leg/etc.

If anyone wants to volunteer to get bit by an annie...all you got to do is smell remotely like bird, fish, mammal, reptile, or amphibian and mine will get you ! :D

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