All of that enormous bulk is borne by the water most of the time. Perhaps this is why the green anaconda can afford to be about 50 percent heavier than a python of the same length. Unlike the Burmese pythons, which are found on land and in trees as often as in the water, the green anaconda is an almost wholly aquatic snake.

What’s more, the anaconda would be less likely to encounter fire ants in the first place. It can easily slither away from fire ant bites. Unlike its smaller relative, the anaconda gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs. The green anaconda does not have this problem. Given the ubiquity of fire ants in the Everglades, it’s imaginable that the ants are limiting the population growth of the pythons. The second-largest snake ever captured was taken in 1998, a 403-pound Burmese Python was captured (in Burma) but a new record has been set in Florida for this species. By the end of the day she and her brood had been reduced to little more than scales and bones. The heaviest snake ever captured, according to Wiki, was a 500+ pound Green Anaconda caught sometime in the 1990’s. The other snake that competes with the anaconda is the Asiatic Reticulated Python ( Python reticulatus ). She wasnt weighed at the time she was caught, but scientists estimate that she must have weighed over 500 lbs. One Burmese python at Trail Lakes, captured in the wild and kept in a large outdoor enclosure, was swarmed by fire ants that tunneled up from beneath her while she guarded her eggs. The largest anaconda ever measured was almost 28 feet long with a girth of 44 inches.

Largest anaconda ever caught