Snakes are wonderful.
The best snakes?
Live in trees.
The snakes:
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Anonymous asked: Do green tree snakes make good a good snake for first time snake owners? or are they for more experienced snake keepers?
Usually folks recommend that you have some snake keeping experience before having green tree pythons. I did things differently, and got one as my first snake. Others have gotten them as a first snake as well. So if you’d like to go that route, here’s what I’d recommend:
- Most important of all, and there’s really no way to emphasize this enough (for any animal you want to keep): do your research. Read up on these snakes. Everything you can. Get Greg Maxwell’s book, The More Complete Chondro, and read it from cover to cover. Hang out on the Morelia Viridis Forum and read read read. Join iHerp. Read some more, and soak up all the info you can.
- After you get a handle on the care involved, get your caging, heat panel, thermostat, and all that. Get everything set up and running, and make sure your temperatures are correct. I’d also suggest taking photos of the setup and posting them on MVF. That’s what I did, and it was good to get feedback to make sure my setup was decent before I had my snake.
- Certain things about your caging (overall size, perch diameter, etc) will depend on how old your snake is. I’d suggest you start with a snake that’s at least a year old. Yearlings are more robust than neonates, you can handle them, and you’ll know whether you’re getting a male or female. (Neonates are too delicate to be sexed.)
- Buy a captive bred animal, ideally direct from a breeder who you can contact for help/support if you run into any issues. I don’t know what you’re country you’re in, but in the US, there are quite a few out there. One of the most well-known is Rico Walder from Signal Herp. My first snake was from him, and I have two others that were bred at his facility. There are also the classifieds on MVF—lots of good folks there, but there can be bad apples anywhere, so do your research on breeders as well. (Personally, I would stay far, far away from the classifieds on Kingsnake for your first chondro.)
It’s definitely possible for a first time snake owner to be successful with a green tree python—just do your homework first. :)
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Gorgeous tree noodles.
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This cork bark log had been in Jabber’s cage, ignored, for well over a year. Recently he “discovered” it, and now he sleeps in it pretty much every day, then comes back out onto his perches at night.
(Bander sleeps under his half-log during the day as well.)
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All Tail No Legs: Snake Blog: ask-lugia said: Aw geeze D: With that little info, I’d probs be more... →
ask-lugia said: Aw geeze D: With that little info, I’d probs be more inclined to do maternal incubation and see what kinda temps the mom keeps them at. But then it’s not so good for the female :x Hopefully they’re hardy eggs!
lolnope. You have to constantly check them for…
Very much agreeing with you—get some food into Anders and let her recover (or should we now call her Isabela? ;). You’ve spent a lot of time and effort making sure those snakes are healthy—potential offspring are a fabulous bonus, but the parents’ health is priority one. Since I’m not up to speed on rats, do they even do any sort of maternal care when it comes to the eggs, anyway? I thought they were “dump and run” kinda snakes as opposed to pythons and their twitching beehives.
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Reptile Facts: Reptilian lifespan →
Before you rush out and buy a pet reptile, consider how long that reptile will live. Leopard Geckos can live for 15+ years. Bosc Monitors can live for 20+ years. Cornsnakes can live for 20 to 25+ years. Royal Pythons and Boa Constrictors can even live from 20 to 30+ years - a long term commitment…
^This this this.
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Dangerous Green by True_Bavarian on Flickr.
Emerald tree boa (Corallus caninus), not a green tree python.
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Please excuse the messy floor. For size reference, the perch fits in a 3’ long cage.
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Cheshire’s lost almost all the yellow from her face. Oh well. She’s still got a lot on her sides, and of course her yellow triangles.
I really like how bold her triangles still are. What do you use to line your cages? Coconut fibers?
Yeah, I’ve got coconut fibers lining three of my cages: Cheshire’s, Bander’s, and Jabber’s. Will probably just remove it eventually, though. Over time, it’s starting to come loose (I used silicone to attach it to the walls). It would be a pain to redo it, the snakes would need to be shuffled around while the silicone cured, and I don’t want to have to keep redoing it. Plus, it makes the perches harder to remove/put back in.
Still haven’t come up with an “ideal” cage setup in terms of both aesthetics and practicality.
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Um…
So I posted the pic of Cheshire, it wasn’t showing up, so I eventually posted it again, and now I see they’re both there? Guess I’ll delete the second one.
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