green tree python

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TheBloodyIrish;1179699; said:
Most people can't provide specialized care for them. Most people are not willing to give these guys 70-80% humidity and clean the cage frequently to prevent molding. Not to mention a lot of people LIKE to handle their snakes, and for the most parts these guys are cage-defensive. Also, sometimes it can be difficult to monitor the temperature since you have to place the probe in the right place.

It is not impossible, just hard to get it off the ground. It is easy to monitor them, but not so easy to set up and get routine in place.
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AttackFish;1179696; said:
For the average person, they would be extremely hard to take care of. Such as, someone buys a cornsnake, then decides I want a GTP. They try to handle it like a cornsnake, it gets stressed, possibly bites them, and thry cant figure out why. Or, they dont understand the concept of humidity, GTP gets dehydrated, and dies. GTP's LOVE humidity, and do not like to be handled. And caging has to be made so that when you do infact spot clean, you can remove the snake and branch its on so that the stress is kept minimul. And its very hard to tell if your getting a CB or WC animal, and if you do infact get a WC GTP, you are probably going to not want snakes anymore. Most snakes that are WC could have parasites, you get a GTP with parasites it even harder as they are very specialized snakes, wich stress very easily, and could die during treatment as you will most likely need to handle the snake during treatment.

You cant just put one in a 20 long with aspen shavings, heat lamp, and mist it every once in a while like a corn snake.
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Yeah but if you don't know that last sentence then you shouldn't even buy such a snake or any snake if you just take for granted you can throw them all in aquariums with aspen shavings. GTP's are not that difficult to take care of as long as you follow those things mentioned. And I don't think those things mentioned are things that are that hard to do. Temp. isn't as important as the humidity.

Simple reading/researching of this snake should lead you in good hands. It's a snake, there are many instructions as well online care sheets for them. They can be people's first snakes with success as long as those people research research, and research and have time to devote to observation/tracking feeding/shedding/etc.
 
Read The More Complete Chondro by Greg Maxwell and stop arguing... I'm not even sure what the debate is here.
 
loconorc;1180122; said:
Read The More Complete Chondro by Greg Maxwell and stop arguing... I'm not even sure what the debate is here.
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Especially over a 2-3 years old thread! Anyway, they are debating over if GTP are good beginner or not... :ROFL:

If you can handle a GTP, go for it. If you're lazy as hell, don't bother.
 
Whoa this is 3 years old? xD hahaha Obsessive much?...

I think experience plays a large part, but if you know what youre doing, and have the space, time, and money go ahead... But that just almost never happens.
 
was the frist and only snakes ill ever get ...
VERY EASY TO CARE FOR....mine gained a nice ammount of weight and sold for over 700 a monther after i sold him..mine was great..
one day ill have a few more...
 
i never had a snake b4 my GTP... i got one then a few weeks later i got a second...
then the cold weather came and it got to my basement gets COLD... my moms bills were getting to high with all the fish and **** also..
 
i kept them,bread them,watched them grow,held them often,humidity droped at times and no problems,i had only had bps and rosys before that,they got mites somehow once,i recoverd them from that,i left town once and left the door open on the cage of one and it got out,my mom was watching the house and called me in a panic,i had my freind go over and he grabed it like nothin and placed it back in its cage no problems,they do tame down like other snakes they are just more sensetive to light.ive never had wc so that must be what your all saying is so hard,they are not that fast to die or freak out.i know some are more nippy than others.ill try to find pics of mine bein held.and who cares how old the thread is,i wasnt here 3 years ago and was interested.:)
 
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