Amazon Tree Boa Pictures

Here are our little nippers.....
This is Dippy:
http://www.stormyworld.net/coppermin...3-15-02_01.JPG
Snippy:
http://www.stormyworld.net/coppermin...3-15-02_01.JPG
http://www.stormyworld.net/coppermin...l_08-30_04.JPG
and last but not least Nippy:
http://www.stormyworld.net/coppermin...al_9-25_05.JPG
http://www.stormyworld.net/coppermin...mal_4-2_02.JPG

Awsome pics! I love the second to last one! Cool snake!

Beautiful ATB's.
Great pictures
Rusty

Do they require alot of work, and are they expensive? And what kind of enclosures do they require? Sorry about all the questions but I think they are cool!

love the names, very appropriate. :)

welcome to the forums btw, i remember your name from what few times i have posted at rtb...

Amazons require more work then some other snakes but arent too bad. They are by no means a beginner snake though! Temps need to be on the cooler side, in the low 80's, and the humidity needs to be kept high. The cage needs plenty of air flow or mildew and fungus will grow from the excess humidity. Getting this balance in the caging is one of the reasons that they arent for someone new to snakes. Another reason is that they are display animals, not a snake to handle. They like to bite, lunge, and stress easily so handling should be kept to a minimum. They can be housed in a 10 gallon tank standing on end with a plexi-glass front or rubbermaid container for quite a while. An adult should have a home roughly in the range of a 24" wide x 24" tall x 16" deep.
ATBs are not that expensive, a garden phase can be found for around $40 and they go up from there depending on color and quality. As with any animals, captive bred are the way to go. Wild caught snakes are common and can be a pain, full of parasites and mis-handled in the export process.

Hope that helped first_time.

Oh, well than maybe I don't want one, I likes snakes that I can handle, and I'm new to sanke keeping. Maybe someitme in the future.

incredible snakes!
Those are very good looking!
Is Snippy a garden phase? (sorry still pretty new to ATB's)
Im hoping to come home with and ATB and a Coastal Carpet python at the reptile show in a couple of months...

All very nice, but Dippy in particular strikes my fancy. Do you have other animals, or strictly snakes?

Thanks again for the compliments!
greenman, Snippy is considered a halloween phase, or at least that is how she was sold to me. To be completely honest I am not sure what she is though. Most of the gardens I have seen have a lot less contrasting patterns and a lot more grayish coloring.

Marla,
Here's what we have.....
1.1 Colombian BCI
1.2 Hog Island BCI
1.2 Amazon Tree Boa
0.2 Dumerils Boa
1.0 Irian Jaya Carpet
1.1 Horned Mountain Dragon
1.0 Green Anole
0.1 Pomeranian
1.0 Plain Old Cat

Quite the collection! Looks like you may be building up to breeding some of them. How is the keeping of the dragons? And what do you have against ball pythons? ;)

I am going to make an attempt at breeding this fall...
My Hog Island male and one of the Hog Island Females are ready and I am going to put the Colombians together and see what happens too. (No mixing... Hog Island with Hog Island and Colombian with the Colombian)
The dragons are great, one of the easiest lizards around we have come across. They are able to be handled and dont have a lot of difficult husbandry demands. For anyone interested here is a link to a care sheet I wrote a while back..... HMD Caresheet

Nothing against BPs :) ... I had one for a while. My sister loved it to death so I let her have it when she got herself situated down in her new house in North Carolina. She also has a Brazilian Rainbow.

Oh I forgot one other herp in the house...... we also have a Blue Tongue Skink :)

those are definately gorgeous snakes! I am a huge fan of Tree Boas! All forms of them have such beautiful coloration!!

yeah I could see that being a halloween phase.
When they are young they start out with high contrast colors, especially orange. But the orange tends to fade as they get older. Beautiful snake though. Im jealous! :)
I almost bought one last year but Im glad I didnt. I was not ready for it....
looking forward getting one soon though!

That's quite a zoo you have there, Stormy! I'm very glad you found your way to our forum! Would love to see some pics of the dragon and the skink, too!

I am looking into getting a pair of amazon tree boas, any hints or tips. I am looking to get them soon, when I finish their cage. I heard their temperament is bad but how bad?

Thanks,
Justin

Pretty nippy from wht I HEAR - we've just added an ATB caresheet penned by GreenMan - check it out in the Snake Care section in Caresheets (L column).

Aww, how cute are they?! I eventually want to get one of those, not yet though. They are beatutiful. I want to get one once I have the money to build or buy a self contained vavrium so that the snake can be displayed in style and comfort :)