Understanding the snake lighting and heating requirements for the Yellow Anaconda is a must for healthy animals.The ambient temperature in your enclosure should be between 81℉-83℉ (26℃ and 27℃), and you should have a heat pad with a thermostat that allows for a temperature drop at night. To guarantee proper humidity, purchase a hygrometer. Practice proper disinfecting methods to ensure your snake doesn’t get mouth rot or any other bacterial infections. Yellow anacondas like to defecate and urinate in their water dishes so it’s very important to be diligent with water changes. A word of warning in regards to your water bowl be prepared for constant water changes. Because of the humidity requirements, yellow anacondas tend to do best in PVC enclosures. Aquariums generally have screen tops which let far too much humidity escape and means you’ll either constantly be misting or you will have to invest in an automatic mister to ensure proper humidity levels, as improper humidity can cause respiratory disease and difficulty with shed.

You need to keep the humidity in the enclosure between 60 to 70 percent as well as provide a water dish large enough for the snake to fully submerge in, as they like to soak. That being said, the average adult anaconda requires an enclosure measuring 6’x30”x18” at an absolute minimum. For example, if your snake is 8 feet long, your enclosure should be at LEAST four feet long. Whatever the size of your snake, halve it. As they get older, you judge the size of the bin by the size of a snake. When your anaconda is a neonate, they will comfortably live in a 6 to 15 quart tub or a 15 to 20 gallon reptile terrarium. Yellow anacondas are a very high stress snake as neonates, which means they prefer a smaller enclosure than you may expect. They will also accept chicks, quail, and other fowl following the same sizing guidelines listed above. Adults will eat large to jumbo rats, depending on size, and some of the bigger girls may even take a rabbit.

Most neonates, which are between 17 inches and 24 inches, start off being able to eat rat pups or weans, and from there you can judge the size of food your animal can eat based on its girth. Yellow anacondas have amazing feed responses, and can be quite vicious to their live reptile food.

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