Lat april I responded to an add for cb green anacondas. I emailed and asked the guy who bred him a few questions. he said his female that produced these babies was 15 feet and the male was 9 which he sold shortly after the breeding (I do not know for sure the origin of both parents). He said she produced 20 young which was more than he expected and needed to get rid of them pretty quick for cage space. The snake he sent me was about 2.5 feet and the only mark on it was from the attachment to the yolk. I told him I did not care if it was male or female but I did want a good temper since my plans were to keep a pet (I have more plans in breeding now since I got a couple years to prepare). He called me after he sent the snake and told me when it should arrive, I asked what sex it was and he said he sent a male(I don't know if he was just trying to remember what he sent or if he really looked since this snake has no spurs externally and are hard to find with parting the scales and a magnifying glass a year later). The snake was fine being taken out of the bag but after it was set down it bit if it was touched but if i let it crawl on my hand it was fine being picked up so that is how I put it in its cage. The guy told me all the babies took live fuzzy mice on wednesday and I got the snake friday so I waited untill the next wednesday to try and feed. NO luck with any rodent of any size for 8 months..scented or thawed in chicken broth...I tried all the little tricks people told me they have used over the years for anacondas and nothing worked. One night I left a small garter in his huge cage since I needed its cage for the day and the next morning it was eaten. So i figured I would let that put something in its stomach and I asked a vet and they said it would be fine (my friend breeds garter snakes so it was a cb i got from her) I then went out and purchased 3 more garters and a tank to put them in so I could keep trying to scent rodents with them. As time went by with no luck I would add the biggest garter to its diet(I know it wasnt the best idea but I figured it was better than a year without food). I was waiting until spring to get some baby chicks now because I was determined it would work. But Al Haikem from ft meyers told me to try grocery store chicken (I have never heard or thought of it before) and go figure..she took it (at first not from me..just dragged it into her hide box. Now she will only take it from my hand and she used to strike it but now it is just a gentle opening up and taking it from me. She wont take pieces in her cage over night? Just from my hand now. So now you know its history. Since the snake didn't take rodents like I was told, isnt male like I was told, do you think it is not cb? It was purchased out of Florida, import capital of greens in the US. But that seems like a big lie even compared to the other innocent ones. And the snake looked like a very young healthy cb. Opinoin? sorry for the long message

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