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These two may have to move to Massachusetts!
I keep a group of male Boids together, and there is often buggery. They had better not travel through the Deep South on their way! LOL

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Do they really try it with eachother? Or do they just hang out like that?

` Every few months, the Anaconda starts scratching the other snakes, and the substrate, with his spurs. Since the substrate is newspaper, you can really hear it. He will also mount the other snakes, who are all males, and just generally get chummy with them, as in the picture. The other Anacondas, and the Ball, don't seem to take much notice. The Boa, who is a young adult, seems to respond and will do some spur scratching, himself. I've never seen them actually hook up. I've watched, and I don't think they do. I have female Anacondas, and Boas, in other habitats, in the same room. I think that the males are responding to the females pheromones, as I notice increased activity, and tail waving from the females during these times.
` If the Boa can hold out for a couple of more years, I have two beautiful pink females growing up for him. The Anaconda is just going to have to tough it out. I learned a lesson from selling Anacondas to people. I won't do that again.

` They do display some strange behavior!!

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They hurt the Herp trade more than help it. People see these shy, beautiful(pattern, UGLY SHAPED FACES) PYTHONS, and get one, and the things DO NOTHING 90% of the time. I left 2 alone in a tub, that where balled together when I put them in it, and 5 hours later, they hadnt moved a inch!! So people think, Hey, I have a Python, why not get another type, and they have NO idea what they are getting into. Then the first time they are striked at, BOOM, its over, and the snake its up dead, left in his small cage for life, or at a adoption/rescue place. Ball Pythons are to misleading. YES YES, some of you have really cool and active Balls, but just them same, some of us have really nice and active Anacondas.

There's an interesting perspective! I can see it happening, too.
But there are a LOT of people who run out and get a burm or a green andaconda as a first snake. I've talked to some of them and walked away mourning how in over their head they were going to be in.. oh.. about 6 months.

(P.S. me = prospective yellow owner)
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?