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Arboreal behavior

OH one thing we can completely agree on (despite my joke that started all this) is WHY people keep them.

They are with out any doubt one of the most beautiful species of snakes in the world.​


I love looking at them and if I had the time, room and patience I would probally own one myself despite my belief that they like to bite,
 
Well if your only experience is with tree BOAs I'd have to agree. The only one I've come into personal contact with attempted to remove the face of everyone that handled it. Python's are a little different. If you go on the forums you will find a good number of them are completely handleable (is that a word?). Anyway, we do agree that they are awesome to look at. Here is a picture of my girl taken yesterday while we lounged on the couch. She will willingly lay with her head on my chest, or in this case a coil on my hand for hours while I stroke her back and her head. She is one of a kind!
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BEAUTIFUL
im getting a tattoo of a gtp cuz i love love love them but im too affraid to own one
 
Meg STOP IT!

My wife is going to end up comming to your house and sufficate you with a pillow while you sleep if you convince me to be more open to getting a tree python! :crazy02:

I have been thinking about this and your are correct my experience is MOSTLY with tree boas while I did get a NASTY nip from a GTP once I must admit my real experience is with the boas who are mean SOBs again in my experience.

I wonder just how many breeds are taken to be mean because conventional wisdom says so.

(conventional wisdom is something that I constantly challange :devil01: )​

Two in particular I hear this about are the african house snake and various beauty snakes.

House snakes I KNOW better cause I have a large colony of them and as previously in this post one bite ever. Let me be clear my colony of AHS no numbers 28 breeders or soon to be breeders. These are from two main groups. Some are Tanzanian and would be properly called "brown house snakes" though none of mine are actually brown I specialize in reds, cinamons and striped animals, etc. The others are all Cape House Snakes or what are commonly called Zululand from Nathaal, Transvaal etc. And with all this diversity I have no biters.

I can see why people may say so though, do not mess with one that has just eaten, while they smell mouse they try to eat anything that moves. But it is just a very strong feeding response.

I have handled a lot of carpet pythons and like I have said most go calm with some age and recently I was choosing between a crossed carpet and a taiwan beauty at a local show. I was ready to add something totaly new and something that would display from time to time as well. Passed on the baby carpet he was very pretty and had yellow comming in already but he was from a three way cross of a Irian Jaya, Costal and Carpet being 75% Coastal so I was afraid he could hit say 10 plus feet and that is bigger then I personaly want.

So I picked really cool Taiwan Beauty offered by the same breeder. These are supposed to be high strung and bite. Not this guy he is mellow yellow all the way so calm not even mean with a F/T mouse, he eats right off the tongs but does not strike just starts eating all slow and methodical.

I can't wait till he is 6 plus feet and his yellow comes in he should be gourgous (in a Steve Irwin voice).

So the question is do I have yet more room for a aborial python? Why have you done this to me? :shrugs:

My taiwan doe like to climb and display so I think he will keep me happy for now, perhaps a girl friend for him would be a better addition,
 
LOL Jack!! It's my mission in life to hook people on GTP's. Look what happened to Angelina (Kornkeepers), she's now up to something like 20 something GTP's all because of my girl. When I posted a picture of Tempest resting on my arm on the other GT forum, I got a lot of people who responded with similar stories. A tame GTP is really not such an anomaly anymore. You are better off getting a yearling or something that the temperament is known, rather than a baby who might be nippy as a youngster but mellow as an adult. I have to say, my 3 month old baby was mellow from the start though. I've had all my bites from my corns, none from the GTP's. At night, I have had Tempest and Whisper strike out at me when I open the door to spray them because they think food is coming, but never during the day ever. They are safe enough for children. If you wait until next year, I should have babies from this pair. I'm hoping they pass on their awesome temperament as well as their great eating habits.
 
Yeah, Meg...more like 30+. :cheers: Thanks. :crazy02: Oh yeah...AND a tattoo....
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I am actually thinking about getting rid of my corns, and just keeping GTP's (I know, sacrilege)...
 
Right now I am really enjoying my new baby Taiwan.

The little guy is smart, take of the viv lid and he heads out fast or walk by his viv and he is all checking you out etc. I have him in a huge viv cause of all my snake even though he is still small he travels around it the most.

He is also fast like cat fast, never bites or even acts like it but I am wondering what it will be like when he is seven feet long and can raise his head 3 feet off the ground :rolleyes: that is going to be intereseting.

I also think he would eat himself to death if I allowed it. Nothing like my corns that grab the mouse from tongs or the house snakes that strike faster then you can see. Nope he just crawls over and starts to slowly swallow the mouse right off the tongs.

I deffinitely have a snake that likes to climb too.

Here is a picture of the little guy hard to believe within in 18 months he will pass 6 feet and have the girth of a coke can isn't it.

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While I was fussing with the camera I just had to share this with yall as well it is a shot of my pride and joy my Striped Zulaland House Snake Female. I really need to break down and get a better camera the luminescence you see it this picture is pathetic compared to seeing her live. Her color also doesn't come through as "copper" as it really is.

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Rich shouldn't get too upset about the non corn photos the shots are on one of my servers so the hosting space and bandwidth are covered, :cheers:
 
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