I picked up a green anaconda from a local place today that I always deal with when it comes to animals. He is adjusting well in the new tub set up also. I fed him 2 nights ago and he took the rat without a thought (f/t). However the night I brought him home he tagged my roommate. Now he had just been put in the new cage, was hiding under the paper towels, and when my roommate reached in started moving away but my roommate being a dumb a$$ still insited on holding it. I say that is why he got bit, he says its cuz the snake is mean yet it hasn't snapped once since and I am holding daily. Which would it be more then likly? The second question is is papertowls the best substrate like I've read?
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New Green and a couple questions
flirtycuddle
Jan 14, 2008 04:04 PM
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rottenweiler9
Jan 15, 2008 12:02 PM
I would say a few things. The snake was stressed from being in a new place, the snake was cornered, and third your roomate could have had a different sent on his hand. Odds are it was the first two, just a defensive strike.
Paper towls are OK to start with. You will be able to see if the snake has mites or parasites. You can change to newspaper if you want. Different people use different things. Some use aspen, kraft paper, and so on and so on.
Just my thoughts on it.
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j3nnay
Jan 22, 2008 02:26 PM
Snakes aren't "mean". They quite honestly don't have a big enough brain to have the thoughts necessary to be what we call "mean".
Your roommate was trying to grab a stressed, scared snake that is a species that tends to be aggressive. An anaconda is not a corn snake!
Papertowels work, and are what I use, but I don't have any true "giant" snakes. They're definately easy to clean and (in my case) keep up humidity well, so if they're working for you, keep using them. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
~jenny
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