Sorry to add to this long thread. I kept 4 water snakes of different sizes with a blacksnake and a garter in a 100G tank by using layers to increase the floor space, and taking them out for exercise. If you've seen how much time a snake spends underground or in a hiding box, the amount of space isnt that important if the tank is just where the snake spends his "down time". At feeding time my snakes crawled out of the tank, took fish from my hand and ate them on the floor. I also used my bathroom as an exercise room (sealing all exits of course), where they could climb and swim as they pleased. Two years they produced babies and one year only slugs, with no heating device besides the sun. This is still a mystery to me because I never once saw them mate or show any interest in each other.

Len

PS- I discovered it makes a big difference to put the tank on a stand rather than on the floor. When they were at eye level even the mean ones let people handle them, but on the floor it was like "here comes the hand" and they never tamed.

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