I've been letting my burms and other snakes swim in my pool for a while now, they seem to enjoy it a lot. Then the guy that I bought my conda from said the chlorine is bad for them because its meant to kill animals? I disagree I think that it would be fine becuase the snakes have water tight skin just like humans and as long as they arent drinking a whole bunch of the water it would be fine. What do you guys think?
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Pool water: Harmful?
savvgawd
Jul 07, 2004 01:24 AM
Replies (2)
arik
Jul 07, 2004 01:54 AM
Shouldn't be too bad for em. Make sure all grates and intake holes are taken care of. There will come a time though when it wont be smart to be in a pool with the snakes as they get older.(larger). On ground you have better leverage to deal with them but in a pool you're easily overwelmed by a heavy bodied snake.
I think it was dfr that had a 'snakes swimming in pools' post awhile back. Maybe scroll throughn the back posts and see whats there.
Arik
eunectes4
Jul 07, 2004 02:39 AM
Yes he did and I agree with you again Arik. I would still try and take the snake in while chlorine levels are low. and throwing a 15 ft green in the water with you would deffinitely cause trouble for you. Now for Mark Petros's piebald ball for fun...another pic eunectes4's cell phone cannot do justice for.
