Has anyone owned yellow anacondas before and can tell me what there like, Temprement etc. I know they have a bad rep for being aggressive and wondered how true that was because people say green anacondas are supposed to be bite all the time but in my experience there quite placid. Thanks

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purely from reading on the forum.... they are mean 's, totally unpredictable even when hand reared from young.

But yea.. wait for someone who has experience.

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i now a few people which have had these and they where a complete dream! hissy when young like every thing but with regular handling (like anything) they will become holdable! i personly like yellows and am thinking of one for the future. ignore all this bad steriotype of evil anaconda as in my experience its all down to a few keepers not knowing what they are ding and making the snake pissed off and angry with bad husbandry! all snakes are what you make of them and if you put in your hours with them they will be a joy!

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Cheers, I thought they probably wouldnt be bad. It gets to me when people say typical temprement for retics and things because typical retic temp for me is calm placid animals.

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Captive breeding is the key here,same as it was with Retics.Any long term keeper will remember what the wild caught retics of the past were like,a reputation of the devil,but with captive breeding they are now some of the most reliable of the large snakes to keep.Find a CB baby and handle a lot.And take pics for us!

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i have 2 yellows and they are mad as soon as you open the viv they attack you, they were both rescues so it could be duie to mistreating in the past.

I had one, mine was a real gem never struck or bit !

Just depends on the snake really !!

I know someone who has both the greens are alot nicer than the yellows,my yellow is mad but i got him a late age,if you get a young one and handle him it should be fine

i had a yellow for about 5 years, and was perfect in temprement with me, but wouldnt stand anyone else near it, it would hiss and strike at them, but i could get t out of the viv and handle it fine, think it knew the phase dont bite the hand that feeds you, fanastic eater, would eat anything and everything, rats,rabbit,hamster,quail, anything, only issue i had how messy it was, would defectae daily in its large bowl then swim round in it,( quite smelly), trash its viv daily so
quite high maintanence snake, but well worth it,

im with you on that stew, ive never met an animal like the yellows for swimming in their own crap, worse than the green for it in my experience