COOKS TREE

[Ann]

HIYA Me again!!! can someone tell me about cooks tree boas? I heard they are not as agressive as the amazons.... I love the tree boas and pythons but I want a handable snake non agressive. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
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[JuliusSqueezer]

Know your breeder/source. Many amazons are sold as cooks tree boas....and it's hard to prove if even possible. The scale counts overlap and there is alot of controversy over whether they are even seperate species.....I can also assure you that there is no difference in temperment....You are just as likely to find a tame amazon. Please read up alot on these animals and KNOW the species needs and try getting with someone that keeps them and do some handling before acquiring. They are a special needs snake and can be as frustrating as they can be rewarding to keep.
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[davesting2001]

Originally Posted by Ann

HIYA Me again!!! can someone tell me about cooks tree boas? I heard they are not as agressive as the amazons.... I love the tree boas and pythons but I want a handable snake non agressive. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
[addsig]

I only bought my cooks tree boa for display and for my own personal collection. A cooks tree boa is very much like all tree snakes and its in their nocturnal nature to be aggressive. They don't see well in the light, I have already noticed at night my boa is much more comfortable with me moving around its cage. If your snake is as aggressive as mine is in the day don't handle it, get it used to your heat threw the glass and it will calm down. You don't want to be bitten by the cooks tree boa it has a very hard time releasing its jaws. You could kill it by trying to get it to release its grip.

[JuliusSqueezer]

This is a really old post and you don't have a cooks tree boa. They are illegal to export from St Vincent Island where they are native and noone is selling them. Amazons are passed off as cooks all the time to try and sidestep the reputation. Besides a supposed scale count difference though that overlaps anyway making them somewhere between difficult and impossible to prove the difference ...they are the same snake but your cooks is an amazon.

[davesting2001]

I have done all my research on care for my reptiles.....My reptiles are happier than most in captivity. Besides there are many different variations of the same snake in question. The very same snake comes in many names, sizes, and colors. I have raised and studied reptiles for the last 34 years, point being I don't need a lecture on a mistake I made by assuming that my reply to a help message would of been torn down and disected just because I dint think I would have to be that specific.

[X-Factor]

oh jeez...this wont end well.

[CraigC]

Originally Posted by davesting2001

I have done all my research on care for my reptiles.....My reptiles are happier than most in captivity. Besides there are many different variations of the same snake in question. The very same snake comes in many names, sizes, and colors. I have raised and studied reptiles for the last 34 years, point being I don't need a lecture on a mistake I made by assuming that my reply to a help message would of been torn down and disected just because I dint think I would have to be that specific.

Depends on how you define variation. Considering that common names are not the best method for discussing corallus of varying species. When you look at proper names, corallus hortulanus, corallus ruschenbergerii, corallus cookii and corallus grenadensis there lies the difference in animals that are refered to as Cooks. Only cookii is a Cooks. Since the main populus is from St. Vincent and closed to export, very few true Cooks are in captive collections.

Craig

[JuliusSqueezer]

I wasn't picking apart your care, just your misidentification and the fact that you are answering a thread that's FIVE years old...though now that you mention it, how exactly is a snake going to get used to your heat through the glass? They can't sense your heat through the glass. The glass has a reflective surface temp of it's own. That doesn't make any sense at all. Are you teasing your snake into biting the glass and knocking himself silly? How do you figure a nocturnal hunter to be less aggressive at night? I have kept these snakes for many years and have always found the exact opposite to be true. I have also found that while they do have long sharp teeth, their strikes seldom pack much punch and I've never had one have any difficulty in "releasing it's jaws". And we are talking about a species that I've taken literally thousands of hits from over the years. If you have killed one that happened to snag a tooth by prying it off, That's all on you dude...something YOU did bad wrong.