Baby Sitting A Berm

[Aaron_S]

Originally Posted by iBaman

1.Burms don't get 14 ft (normally, anywho). =P

Laughable.

Sad that the giants no longer are giants. 10 years ago you'd be hard pressed to find a male burm below 10 feet! Males SHOULD reach a size of 12 - 16 feet. People prefer to keep them smaller and "healthy" by feeding less meals then they "need". Just because they want to keep a 'giant'.


To the OP, I'd just not simply do it. Honestly, if you want a hypo burm then get yourself ready for a hypo burm. Why take on a snake that's a problem for them thus leaving you to look at the snake on a daily basis and wish for what you really wanted. Apparently it's feisty too and comes with NO supplies. I personally think it's going to be dumped and 2.5 months will go by and you'll not hear from the owner.

If it's feisty, just feed it like it should be fed and it'll grow out of it's aggressiveness. That's what I did.

[Aaron_S]

Originally Posted by Rogue628

...Burms are notoriously susceptible to RI's so maintaining proper heat and humidity is important in helping to prevent it....

I'm glad you mentioned quarantine about this animal. Solid point to make.

Burms get RI and it's rumoured, key word being rumour, that it's called "burm disease". A lot of burms that end up with RI never get rid of it and it's passed along to others. It's because it's viral and not bacterial so the bacteria is killed to 1% of what's there and then it comes firing back since the symptoms were gone and people never took care of the real issue.

It's important that everyone gets cultures done when an RI arises so we can stop these things from spreading.

Sorry for the simple medical rant.

[iBaman]

I had always heard that they normally grow slower once they hit 10', and rarely, if ever, hit the 14'. It makes sense that people underfeed though...I like my giants GIANT. Thus why I have a mainland retic ;D

[Aaron_S]

Should have tried for the Sulawesi's. I heard, I could be wrong, that they tend to be the biggest.

[iBaman]

Tigers are the biggest =3 I think that's a Sulawesi, though. =] Mine's a super tiger, so should be a good sized boy. He's already 8ft at a year old, and growing like a weed!