Well I want to chime in since I have been keeping Burmese, Indian Rocks and Boas for over 14 years now. With all of my burms I have had in the past and even the Indian Rock, when they were fresh out of the egg they were nippy but usually settled down after a few meals. The best thing is to get a plastic cage like a Vision 322 for the burm or you can use a 41 quart sterilite tub which works extremely well until you build or buy at least a 6x3x2 cage for it. My burms are currently in a 6x2.5x1.5 cage and it seems to fit them fine even though sometimes the height is a problem getting them out *considering my agm is 10 feet and my female double het normal is 12 feet*. I recommend feed in the cage once you get them and use a small hook or stick to train them. The only issue I have ran into hook training is with retics *I just barely got my first pair of retics this past September an albino tiger male and tiger het albino female* and trying to train my albino tiger he tagged me which did not hurt at all. I recommend do not handle any large snake over 12 feet by yourself..



As for hissing my burms were quiet unless threatened when they were babies but even then I was only ever bit when it came to feeding response and feeding in a separate tub. Since I switched to feeding in the cage I have been bit by 2 snakes my 6 Foot Colombian Female boa and my Albino Tiger Male Retic.. I basically have the retics realizing a hook means to hold or clean and the boa has been hook trained for around 6 months now. As for hissing my Burms will hiss pretty loud because they prefer to just be left alone but once out they are puppy dog tame and only hiss when they are startled because someone moves too fast around them. The Tics and the boa does not hiss at all.



Charlie

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