Post up some Amazon pics!!!

[Jman22]

Who has some of these awesome animals? Throw some pics up!! I only have one, but he is really fun, hilarious and pretty to look at. Hoping to start a discussion on people's experience with temperament, handling and physical appearance of their tree boas!

[Jman22]

Here is a pic of my little dude.

[toddnbecka]

I have one, don't have any pics on a hosted site though. Unsexed, but I suspect female due to the relative size and girth compared to a sibling that one of my FB friends picked up at the same reptile show. Disposition isn't psycho, but I do pick up with a hook to avoid the heat-sense feeding response when I open the tub. I found an odd clear plastic tub that looks something like an oversized waste basket with a dome lid. Cypress mulch in the bottom along with a huge water bowl. Tub sits on an 11" x 11" heat mat, with a CHE hanging about 8" above the lid. She will strike toward the CHE if I don't move the tub before taking off the lid, but never actually made contact. She occasionally does the same thing toward me when I handle her, but I haven't actually been bitten since I handled her at the show when I got her last year. When handled she typically just coils around my hand and lurks in a defensive or hunting posture. Doesn't seem nervous or stressed, just prepared to strike. She has definitely learned to recognize and at least to some extent trust me. If she's out basking when I open the lid for feeding she will either just stay where she is or rise up a bit to take the rat. I feed her by hand, w/out tongs, and if she come to my hand she goes for the food, not me. I learned not to try that with my carpet pythons, but for most of my snakes it works well enough. She's probably around a year old now. and takes small mice or fuzzy rats weekly. Very little pattern, not much color either, compared to the colored ATB's but her background color has become a sort of brick red as she's grown larger.

[ClockwerkBonnet]

Beautiful snake! I've never kept boids before, but many of them are very appealing to look at.

[Jman22]

I have one, don't have any pics on a hosted site though. Unsexed, but I suspect female due to the relative size and girth compared to a sibling that one of my FB friends picked up at the same reptile show. Disposition isn't psycho, but I do pick up with a hook to avoid the heat-sense feeding response when I open the tub. I found an odd clear plastic tub that looks something like an oversized waste basket with a dome lid. Cypress mulch in the bottom along with a huge water bowl. Tub sits on an 11" x 11" heat mat, with a CHE hanging about 8" above the lid. She will strike toward the CHE if I don't move the tub before taking off the lid, but never actually made contact. She occasionally does the same thing toward me when I handle her, but I haven't actually been bitten since I handled her at the show when I got her last year. When handled she typically just coils around my hand and lurks in a defensive or hunting posture. Doesn't seem nervous or stressed, just prepared to strike. She has definitely learned to recognize and at least to some extent trust me. If she's out basking when I open the lid for feeding she will either just stay where she is or rise up a bit to take the rat. I feed her by hand, w/out tongs, and if she come to my hand she goes for the food, not me. I learned not to try that with my carpet pythons, but for most of my snakes it works well enough. She's probably around a year old now. and takes small mice or fuzzy rats weekly. Very little pattern, not much color either, compared to the colored ATB's but her background color has become a sort of brick red as she's grown larger.


Cool, sounds similar disposition to ours. That odd waste basket sounds like a pretty cool arboreal enclosure idea! Really amazing that she goes for the food and not your hand! We have a boa in particular that I would NEVER try that with.:D

[Jman22]

Beautiful snake! I've never kept boids before, but many of them are very appealing to look at.


Thanks CWB!! When I saw this one in person, I immediately thought it looked like a Tim Burton creation, lol.