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I want to get a green anaconda, willingly. is there anybody out there who can give my any info on them. how fast they grow? whats their temperment? or anything else that i should know

This forum can give you any information you need to know. However, all the questions you asked seem to vary from snake to snake with green anacondas. Growth rates seem to be slightly less than the rate retics grow. I believe Kelly Haller has a male that was pruducing sperm plugs at 2.5 years (around I believe...this is from memory) and for a male to do that it would need to be around 7 ft. Females tend to grow a bit faster up to a point due to the size difference between males and females. However, I have a female that is just over 4 ft and a little over a year. This is quite small for a 14-15 month old female green anaconda. Temper...Kelly has proven that temper of the parents truely does fall into the offspring. His snakes all seem to have great tempers and I am sure people that have purchased them will respond and tell you all about it. My green supposedly came from a person who was keeping 3 anaconda pets and the mother of mine was a 15 ft docile pet and the father was sold shortly after breeding. (I have a feeling my baby came from an imported gravid female..but i cant prove that). She was very deffensive in the first day or so but after given a large water dish to feel secure in (not needed for prper housing and can be more of a pain to use...I use on and off) she was calm as can be. I can regularly take her out of a hide box or anywhere she is and she is never startled or quick to react (my yellows are a bit quick so I move slower with them..though I have never been bit, I can tell how its possible). She is also not head shy like your ball pythons and you could touch her right on the nose or kiss her on the lips without any reaction but the sparkle in the eyes of a sexy anaconda. I have also seen some greens at shows with great tempers but just about all the ones that were not pets first (imports and newborns) I do not like to just dive in to hold since they usually have a bit of an attitude. I think that gives you an idea for all your questions...I am sure others will respond as well.

I forgot you had an anything els you should know part to your post. You should know that a female green anaconda can reach well over 20 ft and possibly over 300 lbs. I doubt you will have a snake this big but it is not impossible. Over 100 lbs surely and over 15 ft very likely. Males will not get over 15 ft. (very very unlikely it would get 12 or more) and will certainly stay well under 100 lbs. That should be a factor in which you want to get. Most young greens need chicks to start them off feeding (my girl refused ft chicks for a while and took a garter snake as her first, second, and third meal...I stopped giving them to her when I got her on grocery store chicken parts then I finally got her on ft chicks and then scented mice and rats and I am still playing that game...sometimes she takes a scented one, sometimes she doesnt so I tie a rat to a chick). All of Kelly Hallers animals he sells are already feeding on unscented ft rats ... this is good and I wish I knew how he did it. Everything I feed is also frozen thawed (besides the garter snakes) and I never needed to do live food and it didnt make a difference when I tried..she doesnt like rodents. You might also want to know that you will never neglect to clean their cage since they have some potent poop that you want out of there quickly. Also you need to be carefull and keep things clean if you use a large water dish for them to soak in...you can get health problems like water blisters if you have dirty water all the time or a super damp substarte. humidity is what you need to keep up.

Well, let me tell you, Green Anacondas are awesome snakes, but you need to take good care of them. For starters, Green Anacondas generally have a slower metabolism than the other snake species, so don't worry if your snake doesn't grow much at first. Generally, Anancondas also tend to be slightly aggressive. You can fix this problem by petting the animal, and then moving on to handle the animal. Conditioning an animal like this can take anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks usually. I can't say for sure becasue every animal is different. Now, you want to be sure and give the animal a water dish large enough for the animal to soak/swim in. It is also important to have a hid box, and if you can't get one of those, just put some folded newspaper over your snake. That's what I do, it's easy and cheap. You also want to make sure that the cage is moist and humid. You can easily acheive this by thouroughly wetting the cage, and then putting a heat light (75 or 100 watt)over the cage. Make sure to put a t-shirt or something else around the heatlight so that the open ventilated areas around the cage top are closed off. You only need to do this for about a half hour for the cage to get misty, and make sure no to leave the light on for too long. And from my experience, Anacondas piss a lot, so be ready!

another thing, as soon as the animal goes to the bathroom, clean it immediately. Not only does it smell, but if the cage is wet, and your animal sits in it's own waste for an extended period of time, it can get a bacterial infection! And, you can use newspaper for bedding, or moss. Both work great, and they're easy.

I agree with a few things you stated but the person caging a green will run into more problems that way that can easily be avoided. First off, a large water dish is not necessary if you are keeping good humidity...greens actually are know to thrive in captivity without them. I use one occasionally. Using a t shirt or cloth to cover the cage is just going to absorb as much humidity as it stops from escaping..use plastic. do not have a "moist" or damp substrate for it will only host bacteria. I would also recomend not using a heat lamp since they will also harm your humidity levels. instead use an undertank heat source and place a cup of damp paper or cloth towels on top of it to keep greater humidity. I do not mean to be picky about little things stated in that post but you will find this method of housing a green anaconda is much easier to maintain a healthy and proper environment. I would also throw down the cash for some cardboard or plastic hides so the snake can feel secure inside a solid surface and be resting its body on top of the newspaper. just my opinion.