Cornel's World
2' x 1' x 1' PVC Reptile Enclosure – Compact PVC Terrarium (23" x 12" x 12")
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Giant constrictor
Green anaconda
Eunectes murinus
Kept the same way as the Burmese python and reticulated python, so they share one kit: the same heat, light, and humidity, sized to the animal.
We are still putting together the setup for a green anaconda. Ask us and we will help you choose, or start with the gear below.
Care sheet
What it needs
We have taken these figures from published sources and are still checking them against our own experience. Treat them as a guide, and ask us before you buy.
- Basking surface
- 31 to 33°C Measured on the surface the animal lies on, not in the air.
- Daytime air
- 27 to 28°C The cool end, away from the lamp.
- Night air
- 26 to 29°C
- UV index at the basking spot
- 0.6 to 3 Zones 1 to 2. Crepuscular or shade dweller, thermal conformer
- Humidity
- 60 to 70%
- Daylight hours
- 12 h in summer, 12 h in winter
- Where it lives
- Riparian or wetland, Aquatic
- Adult length
- 300 to 1200 cm
- What it eats
- Carnivore
- When it is active
- Crepuscular
- How it lives
- Semi-aquatic
- Typical captive life
- 29 years
- Longest recorded life
- 32 years A record from the literature, not what to expect. Most animals live well short of it.
Our reading of the literature, not veterinary advice. Animals vary, and so do rooms, so take these figures, and any setup the builder puts together, as a starting point, and ask a reptile vet about your own animal. Where the figures come from.
From the catalogue
Gear that may suit a green anaconda
Matched to its size and care by the catalogue, not yet checked by us. Ask before you buy.
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Same care group
Kept the same way
Where it comes from
Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil (Goias, Roraima, Bahia, Sergipe, Ceara, Piauí etc.), Ecuador, E Paraguay, N Bolivia (Beni), NE Peru, Guyana, French Guiana, Trinidad
Breeding: Gives birth to live young, usually 20 to 40 a litter, after a six to seven month gestation; newborns are about 70 cm long. Facultative parthenogenesis is documented.
Where the figures come from
- Arcadia Reptile, 'UV Index Lighting Guide' species list (script behind arcadiareptile.com/lighting/guide/) and the 'Low UV Species' category page Arcadia Reptile.
- Reptiles Magazine, 'Keeping The Green Anaconda' Reptiles Magazine.
- animaldiversity.org
- sfzoodocents.org
- en.wikipedia.org
- reptilesmagazine.com
- The Reptile Database Uetz P, Freed P, Aguilar R, Reyes F, Hosek J (eds.).
- AnAge: the Animal Ageing and Longevity Database (build 15) Human Ageing Genomic Resources, de Magalhaes JP et al.
- Cornel's World inventory and shopping-by-animal document Cornel's World Reptile Supplies.
- How much UV-B does my reptile need? The UV-Tool, a guide to the selection of UV lighting for reptiles and amphibians in captivity Baines FM, Chattell J, Dale J, Garrick D, Gill I, Goetz M, Skelton T, Swatman M. Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research 4(1): 42-63.
- Animal Diversity Web University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.