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Yellow VS Green
How would you compare keeping a female yellow to keeping a male green? Just curious.
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Re: Yellow VS Green
I've seen this posted before somewhere and while I forget what was said exactly I remember that everyone agreed about how different it would be.
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Re: Yellow VS Green
"Yellow anacondas are the smaller of the two anaconda species most common in captivity. Males average 6-8' in length, and females 10-12'. They are normally various shades of yellow with black spots down the back. The green anaconda is the kind you think of when someone says 'anaconda'. They are the heaviest snake species in the world. Males average 8-10' long, while females routinely pass the 20' mark, and easily can weigh over 200lbs. These have a background color ranging from brownish to olive green with black spots down the back."
This was in the boa FAQ.
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Re: Yellow VS Green
I'm by no means an expert in anacondas, but have a bit of limited experience helping care for them a couple of times at a few places.
One thing to note is that from my experience, greens are more aquatic than not. Yellows tend to spend much more time on land than greens. This probably has to do with size, greens just get so hefty, they aren't as comfortable without being supported by dense water.
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Re: Yellow VS Green
I'm going to pipe up with my
For the last 18+ months we have been the home to two yellow females (who are still rather small..about 7-8' for one and 12-13' for the other). They are rescues from a COLLEGE-AGED guy who thought they'd be "cool to own, but he was tired of getting bitten, (after only having them 2-3 months) and they wouldn't eat." Uh, duuuuuuuh. They were in the back yard. Cage was LARGE enough, but no water tub, and only ONE heat lamp, and even for Western Oregon, it gets VERY cold and wet (and rainy) in Sept...which is when we got 'em. 50* during the day........
Did some research for confirmation, then put 'em on a heat gradient of 84* / 94* like the others, gave them a cat litter pan bathtub, and if Annie had her druthers, she'd LIVE in the tub. Andy (the smaller female) isn't as picky about being in the bath all the time.
Even after 18 months, I still use a hook to position the head. Annie is MORE likely to come after me, now that she gets a proper-sized meal and eats every week.....and I always grab behind the head, wearing gloves. Doesn't matter what, Annie ALWAYS sprays musk all over the place.
They're not 10s by any means...10 being Spawn of Satan, to quote another member here....but they're not "reliably" mellow...Annie is a 7+ and Andy has calmed down to a 6, but will still regularly try to take a piece out of you.
I take Andy in a tank, to educate others about the giants' care and the Florida issues. So far, that is working out really well, but I'd just as soon find them both a different, forever, EXPERIENCED, caring home. *sheesh*
Flathead...good for you!! in letting the mother with the young boy know what she would have been getting into had she purchased the baby green!
*Kudos*
Sweety314
Fantabulous Daughter, Robin 21 Snakes & counting...Rosie, LTR, corns, Kenyan SB, RTBs, balls of var. morphs/norms; purple albino retic 2 horses, 4 cats, rat mommies, rat daddies and rat babies (mmmm, food!), In Loving Memory: Peekaboo, Goober, Scabbers, Happy (thx 4 35 years), Stripe, Baby, Snoopy, Smudge, Stewie-- You will be missed! Steve Irwin 2/2/62 to 9/4/06
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Re: Yellow VS Green
I have owned both murinus and eunectes. I currently have a female yellow.
The green loved the water, and neighborhood kids used to bring me trout for her (and some other herps) so they could come see the collection. She was a WC baby (we're talking '93 here) and she took 5 months to take a meal. She never, ever bit me.
I currently have a female yellow, 3 yrs. old and around 10 feet. She bit me the first time I held her, before she had her first meal. No bites since.
Both of them were as tractable as any snake, but then I have learned how to establish trust with reptiles and I don't have anything with an attitude. If raised properly, there is nothing to worry about with either species.
Chris
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