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Emerald Tree Boa, The Best Pet Snake?

Jun 04, 2021
foreigner I love apparently anything that has the words

emerald

tree

in its name, the

emerald

tree

monitor is in my opinion the most beautiful monitor. I recently stated that up to this point I think the emerald tree skink is the

best

pet lizard, period and I'll be Honestly, until recently I didn't fully appreciate this animal, which is the emerald tree boa. I thought of them basically as green tree pythons that turn out to be live boaz from a different continent. I thought of them as snarling

snake

s with huge teeth. which are extremely difficult to keep alive and, except for the teeth, I was wrong about everything.
emerald tree boa the best pet snake
I was completely right about the teeth, they basically have a few dozen rattle

snake

fangs in that mouth. In fact, I'll show you some compared to the reticulated python teeth of like a big Re-Tech, these are some extraordinary teeth, but these are possibly the most unique and extraordinary snakes I've ever had the privilege of handling. There are so many details about them that I didn't really notice until the first one. time I was able to hold one and one of the things that really caught my attention is the incredible labial heat pits that boas and pythons often have these labial heat pits that detect infrared light and so can be used to detect the temperature of potential prey and other things in their environment, like I said, a lot of snakes have them, vipers, copperheads have what are called L'Oreal heat pits right up on the front of their face, just two big ones, but a lot of.
emerald tree boa the best pet snake

More Interesting Facts About,

emerald tree boa the best pet snake...

Boaz and pythons have these holes, however even in a world with many snakes with lip holes, I have never seen holes like these, they are so deep and distinctive, just chiseled and incredible, and the way their head is formed because They have these amazing, powerful jaw muscles that I'll talk to you about here in a moment, but that causes their head to really widen in the back, right under their eyes, about where their cheeks would be and like As a result, you can see the pits very well on the upper and lower jaw, but under the eyes they have huge pits, it's just amazing and I never realized that until the first time I could. to get this close to an emerald tree boa did I mention those jaw muscles, they are crazy.
emerald tree boa the best pet snake
I've never seen jaw muscles like these on a snake, at least not for the size of this snake, that head is huge as a head. of a viper on the back it just gets huge but it's not the venom glands that are back there it's just those colossal jaw muscles because these snakes have some serious jaws and they're not just substantial in the jaw department , the whole snake. It's just built with a different kind of quality, you really know a lot of snakes, they feel like typical snakes, this snake feels extra dense, its scales have an extra texture that goes beyond what you feel for most snakes, I want say, honestly, how they remember you.
emerald tree boa the best pet snake
I am a Dragon snake hybrid. I've actually never had other snakes like them, they just feel very very special, they are a little denser than they look and to top it all off it would be hard to make a convincing argument that there are snakes that are clearly more beautiful than This one, they are extremely beautiful and it turns out that their reputation for being grumpy and difficult to keep alive is not accurate, so they can be whatever they can be. See some extremely nice snakes here and I'll tell you about the two localities of emerald trebow you're likely to find.
This is the one everyone thinks has a bad temper now, given the fact that I already have two of the Emerald Tree Trifecta. Right here in Clint's reptile room, and in fact right now all three of us, the question for me is whether the emerald tree boa makes a good pet and whether it is the

best

pet snake for me or for you, and for help us figure this out, let's score. The Emerald Tree Boa Based on our five categories, which are handleability, hardiness to care, availability, and initial costs When it comes to manageability, I surprisingly give the Emerald Tree Boa a score of four out of five.
I want to start by saying that there are two different locations of emerald tree boas that you will see in the pet trade those two locations are the Amazon basin and the northern one, this is a northern one of the two. Amazon basin emerald tree boas get bigger and I'm talking seven to nine feet versus less than six feet for a Northern, this is a pretty large female Northern and if you stretch her all the way out she could be approaching that maximum length, but these are smaller than the boas of the Amazon basin. Amazon basin boas also have a reputation for being the calmer of the two, apparently they are generally what is often referred to as tame pups, which is a bit silly, but apparently they are very, very laid back, in general. , Northerners like this don't have that reputation, however, this particular Northern belongs to my good friend Richard Bilbo and I can tell you that all of his snakes are like this, not just like emerald tree boas, but all he keeps are pythons reticulated like indigo snakes, all of them are not shy and that has to do with the way you work with them, so what I can tell you is that if you try hard with these snakes and you have the right temperament for it and they don't like them fear, they will not fear you either, no matter what location. that you have during the day, these will be just lovely and how to tell the difference between the Amazon Basin Emerald Tree Boa and the Northern Emerald Tree Boa will largely come down to looking at this pattern, you can see both.
The localities are usually green with white diamonds or little arrows pointing down from the center, but on the Basin Emerald Tree boys you will see a complete white dorsal stripe on most of them that connects all that other pattern and runs down their backs. the back, while in the northern locality they don't tend to have any of that, yes the other thing you can look for is the astronomically high price of Basin emerald tree boas, let's put it this way if someone isn't advertising that . It's a local base, it's not and if they say it's a local base, double check, but the ratings I'm going to give this snake will be for the northern locality as it will most likely That's the one you'll get in the Basin town will be absolutely lovely during the day and the ones in the North like this can take a little work and again that's not to say they can't become wonderful but it may not be that way at all.
Get out of the box and know that a bite from an adult will be memorable for the night. Be very careful when grabbing food when running or flying in the dark. Grab hot things and ask questions later other than the risk of a bite, which is more likely to happen at night, as a wrong feeding response, they are absolutely delicious to handle, they are not fast, you can see the shape where this snake moves and I'm trying to be respectful. that and I'm trying to move slowly and methodically, this snake lives high up in the trees and it's kind of like what you see maybe in chameleons when you live high up in the trees, you are very careful with all your movements because Yes you are not so careful, you will not reproduce, they can also hold very well because they live in the treetops, being able to hold well is everything for these snakes and honestly, you can just give them the tip. their tail to hold on to your fingers and they can hold their whole body from that little place, they don't scratch and they can't drop their tail, so they have all that going for them, except for a non-venomous snake that is no more bigger than these, that bite is fantastic.
I want to take a moment to thank our radical fans and the stinking radical fans on Patreon who really made it possible for me to become a nerd earlier this year, before the world fell into chaos and that's where I held my first boa of emerald tree and since then everything has changed for me and that would never have happened without you and this video might not have happened without you so thank you very much to our sponsors when it comes to care and again, this is a complete surprise for me, We give the emerald tree boa a score of four out of five, care is actually surprisingly simple for these snakes once you get it right, proper temperatures, humidity and ventilation are essential, so get that checked out a lot. before your snake arrives the enclosure should actually be quite large, the enclosure should be somewhat vertically oriented because this is an arboreal snake, but they will also make good use of horizontal space, it is something they often get nothing but activity . especially at night, it is quite important for these snakes.
We used to think that they just stayed high up in the treetops and didn't really move, just waiting for something to come to them, but as we've looked at their diet and their gut contents and in the wild what we've found is that they eat many terrestrial rodents and other mammals, so at night they come down from the treetops and hunt things that walk next to them. Snakes move around a lot in the canopy and being able to move around like that can be very, very important to their overall health. One thing you'll need to make sure that enclosure has several good positions, that's where your snake is.
It will almost always be especially during the day and make sure the perches are not too big, especially for smaller snakes, which can end up with some kind of kink in their tail if they hold on to a too big perch all the time. time, so they actually prefer a smaller perch, make sure they have access to water, that's going to be really important and a misting system is a good idea to keep a fairly constant humidity, just make sure you don't spray directly on the perch where the snake is located. It's sitting around which can make them wet and cold and they just don't like it.
Make sure you have some real or fake plants in the enclosure to give them some cover so they feel more secure and a substrate. Retaining moisture is a good idea, especially since it won't get dirty very often because these snakes don't eat as often and don't defecate very often. These guys will be relaxed during the day but ready to go out at night. and when you have to do cleaning or something try to do it during the day because it's a completely different animal once the lights go out again, these are nocturnal hunters so during the day they'll just be wrapped up. a perch not long ago is not a good time to feed them, you feed them at night and they do very well on a diet of mainly rodents like rats and mice, this is what they mainly eat in the wild and one thing I talked about these wells before, but that prey must be hot, you know we used to think they were tree-top bird eaters and that all but mammals actually make up most of their diet in the wild, so it's not Surprising that they are doing well. this diet in captivity, like adults they will only eat every few weeks, like most boas they have a slow metabolism and like most boas they love to eat so it is easy to overfeed them but for To keep a boa healthy, they just need to eat. like every three weeks, maybe once a month as adults, a little more often as juveniles and since they don't eat very often, they don't defecate very often either, so this snake is pretty low maintenance and they do very well. well with fairly simple setups and that's why they score so high.
It also surprises me when it comes to stamina and this is another surprise for me. We give the emerald tribo a score of four out of five. Now I'm making a big assumption here. I'm assuming you're getting a captive bred snake, that score is still surprising since you know we spent a lot of time trying to figure out these snakes and most of the snakes we kept at first were caught in the wild, but now that we know it what we are doing and we are working primarily with captive bred animals, this snake is one that can be kept successfully with consistency, just make sure you monitor their temperatures and humidity before they get to you, make sure the temperatures of their feeders are elevated so they can recognize them as food because they know it and then the last thing is to make sure this snake can get some exercise, make sure it has room to move or they can develop digestive problems that could eventually cost you your snake.
However, if it is captive bred it should do very well now, of course this score falls through the floor if you get one that is wild caught or even farmed to import because they will come with all kinds of parasites and it is very likely that shock you andThe reality is that they are tempting because they are less expensive, but they are less expensive because they are much worse and I can tell you that they cost 1,000 or even 4,000 dollars. The live snake is better than a 400 dead snake when it comes to availability, we give the emerald tribe a score of two out of five.
They are actually being bred very successfully, but at the moment there are not many breeders, as a result, don't expect it. to see them in pet stores, but they will be like if you go to a really amazing show, there will be some there, but in small quantities, going directly to the breeder, that is the way to get one and they are out there, and if you are prepared to give them proper care, then the only thing that will really stop you from getting one is probably just money when it comes to the initial costs that I give the emerald tree boa a score of two out of five, as long as you are happy with a tree boa emerald from the northern town.
The snake will likely be bred in captivity in the neighborhood of a thousand dollars; however if you want a local base expect to pay over four grand, everything else is pretty reasonable, this cabinet is not a super crazy cabinet to get it you will need a heat source and a thermostat, a hygrometer is a very good idea, possibly a misting system, although you can get away with just a spray bottle a bowl of water definitely a bowl of water and I would recommend leaving it low so the snake has to move to get there, generally speaking, irrigation water does not reach their faces when they are in the trees. and you need to get them some substrate to exercise on, although I mean you can use a wide variety of substrates, they don't defecate very often and they don't come down to the ground very often, so it's not a big deal, and after that you're done and for this reason, and it still surprises me, we give the Emerald Tribe a score of 3.2 out of 5.
I want to take a moment now to give Richard Bilbo, who is an absolutely incredible snake keeper, a moment to speak about these amazing snakes and a little about how you end up with such incredibly temperamental snakes, even ones that people generally consider to be not so easy to handle. Yours are out of this world. I have had these animals. two males and females. I have had them for over 11 years. This one bit me once when he was probably about seven or eight months old after I bought them and it was because he had a big boa that I brought. the top of the cage and he saw it and it scared him and he fell to the bottom of the cage and I knew they were going to bite me but I was afraid he would get hurt so I reached out and grabbed him and he grabbed my arm and he got angry , you could see him, he was doing everything like that with his jaw muscles moving, but then he let go and that was it, but they are extremely manageable animals, I think it has to do with the more you handle them, the more they get used to it and you know what you can do, I don't know what you do to make this animal angry, you know, they just, they just don't do it, they're extremely tolerant and uh, I know digestive issues can be a problem, that's why I keep the water bowls in the Bottom line, their teeth are big, they have very big teeth and part of the reason for the size of their teeth is because when they eat birds, birds have a lot of feathers, so in order to get through the feathers and be able to grab the meat of the animal, they have to have something that can penetrate.
Most people tend to try to keep them very wet. My animals, these animals. I only miss them four to five times a month, that's about once a week and more often when they go to the shed, I will miss them daily when they are in the shed. Some people say not to spray them directly. I spray them. you directly know it's like they're in the wild and it's raining on them, the rain won't go around them, you know what I mean, it'll go right on top of them, so being used to that I think it gets to where they are.
They are not that worried about this happening, their pattern is to imitate sunlight when they curl up on the branches, it is to imitate sunlight passing through the leaves so they blend, other than that these are my babies , they are just a fantastic animal for everyone. thanks Richard, that was awesome, the emerald tree boa isn't for everyone, um, I wouldn't really recommend one as your first snake, but it's an amazing animal and it's not as unreasonable as it was before, by any means, and I definitely I want one of these someday, as always, please like and subscribe and we hope to see you very soon.
Oh, what a day, this is a good day. jaw muscles with nose but I have strange ones

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