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Post by johnnybandit on Aug 13, 2024 21:41:20 GMT -5
He is growing nicely...
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Post by johnnybandit on Aug 13, 2024 21:41:58 GMT -5
I love watching him take prey.
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Post by johnnybandit on Aug 17, 2024 20:11:09 GMT -5
<abbr>Shedding time again..... </abbr> Attachments:
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 17, 2024 20:55:18 GMT -5
Nice looking snake
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Post by johnnybandit on Aug 17, 2024 21:04:20 GMT -5
Thank you.. He is a Suriname Red Tail Boa Constrictor.... Just under two years old.... He is very calm and gentle.... Two of my Great Nieces (both four years old) hold him all the time.
I am sort of looking for a nice female Suriname and possibly breed a few..
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 17, 2024 21:08:22 GMT -5
I had a boa when I was 26. He ate two mice and regurgitated them. It smelled bad and my girlfriend at the time said it had to go.
But he sure wasn’t pretty like your pet
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 17, 2024 21:09:25 GMT -5
What kind of snakes are overrunning the Everglades?
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 17, 2024 21:16:45 GMT -5
Do they live birth?
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Post by bullfrog on Aug 17, 2024 21:22:50 GMT -5
What kind of snakes are overrunning the Everglades? Not what he has. The Everglades snakes are Burmese pythons. There’s a few others there that are present but less established. There was once boas native to Florida in the fossil record. But Florida doesn’t seem to conducive for them. Individual pet boas will live feral for a time but not become established for whatever reason. I gifted a buddy with a feral red tail out of Ocala that was good sized. We figured it had been someone’s pet until recent to her capture.
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Post by johnnybandit on Aug 17, 2024 21:29:23 GMT -5
Burmese Pythons are the ones taking over the everglades....
Burmese are egg layers.
Boa Constrictors give live birth.
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Post by johnnybandit on Aug 17, 2024 21:50:32 GMT -5
What kind of snakes are overrunning the Everglades? Not what he has. The Everglades snakes are Burmese pythons. There’s a few others there that are present but less established. There was once boas native to Florida in the fossil record. But Florida doesn’t seem to conducive for them. Individual pet boas will live feral for a time but not become established for whatever reason. I gifted a buddy with a feral red tail out of Ocala that was good sized. We figured it had been someone’s pet until recent to her capture. I think the reason for that is two fold....
1) Burms have a huge natural range. The occur and thrive in a wide variety of environments. Tropical, Semi Tropical, Semi Arid, and even Temperate.... Red Tail Boa Constrictors (Boa Constrictor Constrictor) Pretty much only live in Tropical environments
2) There have not been massive escapes or releases of Boas like there have been with Burms... The wild Burm population really was not much of a thing until Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Andrew flattened all those import and breeding facilities along Krome avenue in western Dade County.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 17, 2024 22:04:21 GMT -5
Have they estimated how many pythons are loose in Florida?
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Post by johnnybandit on Aug 17, 2024 22:09:30 GMT -5
Have they estimated how many pythons are loose in Florida? Estimates are all over the place.... But go as high as a million.
And they are definitely moving north.
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Post by johnnybandit on Aug 20, 2024 20:58:27 GMT -5
Gave him a good mist... His eyes are clearing up... He will shed in the next 4 to 7 days.... Humidity is important in the shedding process.... A nightly mist during the shedding process goes a long way in making the shed come off completely and cleanly.... Important for the health of the snake....
His next meal is going to be a quail.
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 20, 2024 22:41:32 GMT -5
You need to print color pictures of him. I like to see his colors.
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