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| 01/25/08 04:20pm |
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Message To: Copperhead1 In reference to Message Id: 1594030 Questions???
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| 01/25/08 04:27pm |
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Message To: Copperhead1 In reference to Message Id: 1594030 Questions???
Quote: I am looking into to get a anaconda. should I get a green anaconda or yellow anaconda? are they very aggresive? do they really look at us as food? can they do well with frozen food? where do you get frozen pigs? I am experienced I have some snakes? I have room for the snake. can somebody please answer my questions. I need answers.
Have the fundamentals of RESEARCH been this truly lost?? 1) BASIC RESEARCH. Do it. (aka Google something like "Anaconda Care", or use known breeder sites like New England Reptile Distributors) 2) We’ll get to green/yellow later. 3) They’re aggression can be high if not handled correctly or often enough (but not so often that you piss them off!). Basic research. 4) A snake would need to be 15+ Feet before it could eat a full grown man. Wide shoulders ftw. Additionally... do you look at a lion as food? Sure you COULD kill and eat one, but would you want to? Or would you see it more as a potential threat and think of food later? 5) Frozen is fine. Basic research. 6) Frozen pigs can be found online. Rodentpro.com has many frozen animals available but no pigs. Farms are an easy place to find them though, but you can feed it rabbits too, which ARE available at rodentpro.com 7) If you have experience w/ some snakes it doesn’t need a ? at the end. Some will say its 100% necessary to have experience w/ large(r) boids, and I tend to agree. If "some snakes" is corn snakes, an anaconda is not a good upgrade from there. 8) It can attack you in the water if you GET in the water with it and piss it off. Swimming with these snakes is not for everyone or the faint of heart! Know what you’re doing if you feel the need to do this! 9) NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER do the above ^ with a snake over 9+ Feet without an associate around incase the worst should happen 10) I said we’d get back to yellow/green. Yellow condas (strictly IMO) while tending to be more aggressive than the green, are a better beginning conda, if there is such a thing. Males will stay between 6-8 feet, females 9-12. Greens of the same length are girthier and stronger than yellows, hence why I wouldn’t suggest them first. **After seeing the apparent lack of effort in basic homework, the hastiness of your questioning and your imperativeness I would suggest looking elsewhere for snakes than anacondas at this point in time. Perhaps Red Tailed Boas? If this comes across as offensive I apologize, however one’s presentation, attitude and tone come across as less than patient or even prepared to handle the work involved in maintaining anacondas** This is strictly personal opinion. ~GNP |
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| 01/26/08 01:36am |
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Message To: GoodNPlenty In reference to Message Id: 1594815 Questions???
On the same token...the question could have been layed out a little better and could have had more of a requesting tone, rather than a demanding tone. |
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| 01/26/08 03:17am |
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| 01/26/08 09:03am |
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| 01/26/08 07:30pm |
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| 01/26/08 07:33pm |
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Message To: Copperhead1 In reference to Message Id: 1595756 Questions???
SoLA, I understand it is always always wise to learn and listen from those with experience, even as one cultivates more experience themselves. Heck, I don’t even have any issues with people using this forum for basic research, although it DOES (strictly IMO) come across as a bit lethargic. If someone comes with a question of clarification, or is looking for places where there may be exceptions/dissagreements such as Tank size, yellow/green, temperments, where you should get ft pigs, I will always happily share anything I may know on the issue. But building an entire care sheet every time someone posts asking "I need to know evreything about raising/caring for snake xyz" (condensed version of course) I find it not only tiresome, but indicative of the person’s willingness to step up and put what amounts to a tiny tiny amount of personal effort into this. Again, yes I do believe it is best to get as many opinions as possible but there is a long list of threads below answering a myriad of questions on basic husbandry issues. I admit, I had fully intended to apologize for what was indeed a response probably a bit too harsh. But upon seeing that a snake was already owned while such questions as "can it eat ft?" were in doubt I am forced to think it might not have been as over the top as it itintially seemed. Not to derail the thread too much, but there is a serious problem with people purchasing large snakes without fully knowing what they are getting in to. If being too harsh saves 1 snake from a bad owner (not saying this was the case here) then I am ok with that. At the very least maybe it makes someone who would have been one of the aforementioned owners take a stap back and reassess before buying a living animal that demands time, energy, patience and attention. If I hurt anyone’s feelings needlessly I am indeed sorry, but I would rather have to apologize for harshness than for encouraging someone unready of owning a snake (or any pet!) from buying one. On a lighter note: I do apologize for my recent lack of brevity! I’m too long-winded, I know! 
~GNP |
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| 01/28/08 02:21am |
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Message To: GoodNPlenty In reference to Message Id: 1597975 Questions???
I agree with you on some angles. I help relocate dozens of large cinstrictors every year...because of just what you said. People buy before really thinking. On the other note though. The same market of people who are "attracted" to the big snakes, is usually the same market of people that have the "I don’t care what you say or think" mentality. So a harsh tone is quick to go in one ear and out the other with these folks. Not saying being overly nice always helps either, but sometimes a few seconds of calm rational can let things sink in better that abrupt emotion. Just another thought. And I agree too...it is a bit lethargic. And there is certainly a lot of published info out there that can tell you everything and more than a forum thread that is lots of text full of good and bad information. Your time certainly is better off spent reading a good book covering their environment and the natural history of the animal. And shoot, if you do that, you can come in here answering questions on your first post : ) |
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| 01/28/08 01:27pm |
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Questions???