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Hello I have a couple of questions about green anacondas. i got a green anaconda yesterday i think she might be female is there eny way to tell besides probing can one tell how old she is buy her size she is 3 feet? She seems pritty nice she is captive breed she trys to bite when i move to fast nere her and some times she will just bite for no reson eny pointers on tameing? Also I tryed to feed her a mouse she bit it and let it go after a while i took the mouse out should i give her a couple days to setel in? i have had other snakes in the past but they never acted like her.

No snake is going to act like an anaconda. was the mouse live or f/t? often times young greens will want chicken but if it is biting that sure beats how my green reacts to a mouse. check below for a thread on spurs. Males will have external spurs on a small appendage and will be curved while female spurs will be recessed into the scales and conical shaped. they will also not be on an external appendage and will usually be darker in color than the male spurs. 3 feet has nothing to do with anything but how big the snake it right now. (did i remember everything kelly).

The mouse was alive i tryed to feed her and her spurs r very small and look more like scales then spurs but there spurs. i will take your advise and let her settle in for a week before feeding the mouse agen.

If you can..try not to feed a live mouse because of the dnager to the snake. are the spurs external and what is the shape?

the spurs are external and look like scales next to her vent

they dont really look like spurs there next to the vent and the size of all the scales she also has a short tail about 5-7 inches from the tip to the vent and its a full tail not cut or eny thing

are you sure they are spurs? and not just scales..what shape are they?

i think there scales now after looking at them she is getting pritty angry so im going to leave her alone now the shape of them its the same shape as a scale that just sticks out a tiny tiny bit

i looked closer and what i was looking at was a scale. i cant see eny spurs at all

See my April 8th text post and two following posts for descriptions and photos of the spur structures. With an anaconda as small as yours, it will be difficult to spur sex without some form of magnification. I hadn't measured them for a few months and was guessing at the lengths of these two when I took the photos. I measured them accurately the other day and for reference purposes, the male is actually 8.5 and the female 9.5 feet. Even at those sizes, the spurs are still fairly small structures and not real easy to spot right off.

Kelly

I think you have it down, I'd say you pretty well covered it.

Kelly

and deffinitely give her a few days to settle in. get the cage set up right and leave her alone. after about a week you should try and offer food. make sure you provide a range of temperature from 80-90 degrees and keep humidity relatively high but not as high as you would expect for a snake from the rainforest. above 50% is good. make sure the snake has places to hide in in both warm and cool parts of the tank and if you provide a large water container to swim and soak in..make sure you keep it extremely clean.

Yes, give her a week or so to get to know her new cage. I would rather you try a young pre-killed rat just before lights out. leave it there till morning and hopefully its gone. Chicken would be my last resort but some thing is better than nothing. Remember, dont get nervouse if she doesnt eat for a few months, its not uncomon for them to do so. just keep in touch with us and let us know if anything changes.---Eric---