Yellow or Green Anaconda?

[IVvDEMONvVI]

Who here has a Yellow or Green Anaconda? Enclosure, size, sex, age, pix, etc? If you do have one have you got bitten by babies or adults more?

[IVvDEMONvVI]

No body?

[raptorix]

I suggest yellow, I don't have one but I work with them

Enclosure size=lage 6Lx6w&6.5D for adults

sex=donno, let a vet probe them

age=donno

pix= I don't have one

have you got bitten by babies or adults more? babies are a bit nasyer, but always be alert around adults

[ReptiZone]

well I dont have one but I worked with 2 a adult female and a baby female.I have ben biten by the baby more often then the adult well I was never biten by the adult but any way here are a few pics

[ReptiZone]

and this

[ReptiZone]

And these 2

[Edwin]

I have worked a little with both green and yellows, both about 6-7 feet in size. The yellow was spastic and could not be handled without gloves to mask the heat from our bodies, while the green was calmer, although it had been known to just snap out of nowhere. My experience is very limited, though, as I was just babysitting for a friend.

Yellows are much smaller than greens, and that makes me lean more towards them. Female greens can get huge and you would need a huge enclosure, access to larger prey, plus lots of helping hands.

Just my 2 cents.

[IVvDEMONvVI]

I've been bit by my little guy 3 times when I first got him. Because he got stuck in my explorer and of coarse he was scared and probably is the only reason he bit me. He hasn't done it since January when I first bought him.


When you feed babies Anacondas do they prefer mice or rat pups?

[IVvDEMONvVI]

PS Great pix thanx for sharing!

[reptilesalonica]

My friend has both yellow and green. Green is tamer and huge while yellow is aggressive but smaller. Difficult matter for someone to choose from :S...
~Greg~

[paul_le_snake]

i work with a 8' green thats as gentle as a kitten, and 3 6' yellows that are very unpredictable. other than that ive only ever had a young green for a while. got bitten once and hurt like hell.
cheers
paul

[hoshal]

I keep a bunch of yellows, I've kept greens but due to space restraints gave them up. I find the greens to be a bit nastier but they also tame down faster. I've been struck at by greens but never tagged, on the other hand I've been nailed so many times by yellows I've gotten used to it. I have a few that bite every time I try to handle them although they are getting better. In my opinion I would stick to captive breed anacondas, less avalible and more expensive, but better then a nasty wild caught monster.
I also find there the only species I've kept that will actually turn there head around and deliberately CHEW on your hands or arms.

[dlucka]

I'll said you have a better chance if you take a captive breed, yellow or green it's a space question. I have yellow one she tame as a corn but for the first 2 week just changing her water cost me a bite (or a few) taking her in my hand was a biting session. She never strike like, hoshal said ...turn there head around and deliberately CHEW ... I saw green conda that was tame too and wild one that stay wild...