hhmoore

take'm out & let'em bite ya til they get tired, lol
of course, I'm only half joking...it's just like with birds - if they know you are afraid of getting bitten, you're done for. If getting bitten doesn't drive you away or otherwise compel you to leave them alone, it isn't always worth the effort. Get past that, and get them to accept that you aren't a threat, and you're on your way. Of course, sometimes they just like to bite people...when you get one of those, I've found that using some conditioning tricks works wonders: You know how you deter dogs from digging all over the place, right? Give them a place that it is ok to dig. To deter them from chewing the furniture...give them something else to chew on. If you don't want a 'conda to bite you, sacrifice somebody else's arm.
I don't know about that one, Rick...I think there are some that would like the opportunity to prove you wrong, lol. If you start while they are young enough, you've got a decent shot.


Some 'condas are fantastic, calm animals (3 of my 4)...but that is not always the case. I have worked with some pretty vicious ones - gotten them sorta handleable, but not really anything I trusted a whole lot. Being able to "read" the snake is must.

There is, of course, some variation in the quality of the yellow you will find; but, as I said, I didn't seen anything in those pics that would make me think it was a hybrid. Greens are really olive green (again, with some variance), and most of the hybrids I have seen tend toward a somewhat lighter version of that coloration....except their head and upper neck, where they seem to look more like yellows. The patterning seems to be a mixture of both species: the large isolated spots of the green, and the combined spots of the yellows. I'll admit that I haven't seen a huge number of yellowXgreen hybrids in person - probably about 15 - but each time I found myself doing a double take because it didn't look right (they weren't always "labeled" as hybrids).