Quote Originally Posted by Sauzo View Post
Well out the ones you listed, I have a jungle carpet and dumerils. The dumerils is kind of like a big BP that is more friendly. My little girl is only 2 months old but she is such a sweetie.

Now my jungle is always out, never uses a hide and is always on a perch somewhere. Shes about a year old. When I got her, she was a TERROR!! She would strike at anything. She bit me 3 times, would strike at me, at anyone near me and even struck at the tv. It took work to get her mellowed down. I just sucked it up and let her bite me until she finally got bored of it. She then would do head butts on my hand and would always move fast if you touched her. Took me about 2 weeks of work every other day and now she for the most part is mellow. She still has cranky days where if you go to pick her up off a perch, she will hiss and coil and look at me and maybe do a small lunge or a head butt but she doesn't bite me anymore. She is feisty and full of personality lol.

Seems to me boas are pretty even tempered and laid back all the time. Pythons seem to have good days and bad days. Even my BP has bad days where if you take her out and let her explore and then pet her, she will do drive by hissing. She wont slow down or stop or anything, just hiss as you touch her as she is cruises by lol. And the jungle seems to have good days like yesterday where she was a sweetie and sat around my neck and shoulders and just looked around. Then today, she had a hissy fit at being taken out and held lol.

Hard decision. I love both my dumerils and jungle as well as my other snakes and my beardie. If you find a jungle that is very laid back, then my vote would probably be for the jungle but imo, they take a lot more work than the dumerils who is just a sweetie right out of the box and a complete lap snake lol. My little girl who is 18" sat curled around my fingers for an hour with me while I watched tv lol.
When you say the dumeril a is like a BP, are you referring to her activity level in the enclosure? I think they are mainly a terrestrial species that like to burrow, right? Do you just have to find her and take her out when you want to see her?

And sounds like the jungle is opposite - it's a a snake you can sit back and watch.

Neither of my BPs have ever hissed or struck, but they do always hide. I just figure out which hide they're in and pull them out, seemingly against their will, but they tolerate it.


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