Hello everyone. As you know I own a green anaconda named Oliver who I have had for around a year now.
When I purchased privatly from a guy who told me it was a male. I bought it for that main reason, also because it was CBB.
Now at around 7 feet long, Oliver is living life happily. He enjoys crawling around on the lawn and being shown infront of other people.
Here's the problem. I never found Oliver's cloacale spurs to be very large. And the base of his tail was rather slim. So yesterday I brough it to an exotic pet store to have it sexed. After having fun restrainning him(fun, yeah right) he probed her, well tried too. He only got in a few scales deep, on several ettemps. So he told me he was a she.... He also said that because we where in his/her area so long, normaly males "eject" there junk and it would be easy to see.
Now I don't know what to do.... The reason why I bought it was because I was under the impression it was a male. Male green anacondas only get 9-12 feet long and 80-100 pounds. By no means a peice of cake to deal with but way better then a female that will get 15'+ and over 200 lbs....
This snake is great, very tame, calm, no feeding issues. But I cannot manage something that size. What should I do? Am I in the wrong if I get rid of her?(I was told it was a male at purchase, I technicaly bought something I didn't want in the first place if it trully is a female) Should I get it probed by someone else?(second opinion)?
Any help would be great.
When I purchased privatly from a guy who told me it was a male. I bought it for that main reason, also because it was CBB.
Now at around 7 feet long, Oliver is living life happily. He enjoys crawling around on the lawn and being shown infront of other people.
Here's the problem. I never found Oliver's cloacale spurs to be very large. And the base of his tail was rather slim. So yesterday I brough it to an exotic pet store to have it sexed. After having fun restrainning him(fun, yeah right) he probed her, well tried too. He only got in a few scales deep, on several ettemps. So he told me he was a she.... He also said that because we where in his/her area so long, normaly males "eject" there junk and it would be easy to see.
Now I don't know what to do.... The reason why I bought it was because I was under the impression it was a male. Male green anacondas only get 9-12 feet long and 80-100 pounds. By no means a peice of cake to deal with but way better then a female that will get 15'+ and over 200 lbs....
This snake is great, very tame, calm, no feeding issues. But I cannot manage something that size. What should I do? Am I in the wrong if I get rid of her?(I was told it was a male at purchase, I technicaly bought something I didn't want in the first place if it trully is a female) Should I get it probed by someone else?(second opinion)?
Any help would be great.
