>>I can't find much husbndry info on Oocatocus rafodorsatum, or any one keeping them ?
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Not many people keep "rufos". There was a time when hundreds were imported, and they sometimes were confused with Elaphe bimaculata or E. dione. But not many people wanted this species that starts on tiny fish as babies, has tiny little babies of their own born live, and is not much like a ratsnake in other ways too. A lot of people don't even consider them ratsnakes, at all. I always thought they were a lot like bimaculata and dione and wanted to keep a pair, but they were hard to find, and ones I did get often had parasite problems from being w/c. I never did establish any.

Rufodorsata normally is semi-aquatic and eats aquatic prey, probably small fish to begin with. They might graduate to small mice when closer to adulthood and probably eat a few other prey items, like lizards. I would experiment with different kinds of food items, maybe even frogs. Your snake probably is w/c and has some preferences based on its wild existence.

I would give it a dry terrarium or other caging, with a dry hide and maybe a moist hide too. I'd put at least one water container in its cage, large enough for it to soak in. You could also try putting food items in the water jug. A burrowing medium probably wouldn't hurt.

Keep us posted and thanks for the pics...TC

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