Hey everyone,



Just posting with an update about my steadily growing colony of Brahminy blindsnakes. Over the weekened, I was able to obtain a nice small rotting log, which contained a large, thriving termite colony. Transporting this log very carefully, all of the way from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, I was able to place it on the top layer of my blindsnake habitat. I then sat down and watched to see what happened. Not long after I did so, the blindsnake came to the surface of the substrate, and crawled on top of the log, out in the open under the bright light. I watched the snake consume several termites at a very rapid speed. In between termites, the snake would pause, press its head to the ground, and then move on searching out another. Perhaps the most interesting observation was that after the snake had finished feeding, it climbed into the leaves of a small plant beneath the light, and actually basked for quite a long time, perhaps digesting its food. This may go against the theory that blindsnakes hate light entirely. The snake exhibited no signs of fear or caution, despite its small size, and performed all of this within minutes, clear out in the open. It then slithered down under the rock to finish digesting its meal. One thing is for sure; there are pleanty of termites to last this snake until June. The blindsnake colony, and termite colony, seem to be thriving, and I am still finding out more and more about this fascinating species every day... there appears to be much information about them that we still don't know...
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DAVE





0.0.1 Oriental fire-bellied toad

0.1 Western hog-nosed snake

0.0.1 Okeetee corn snake

0.1 Dubia day gecko

0.0.1 yellow * Everglades rat snake

1.0 Yunnan beauty snake

1.0 scarlet kingsnake

0.1 albino African clawed frog

0.0.1 Northern black racer

0.0.1 African brown house snake (Zambia locale)

0.0.1 Sonoran gopher snake

1.1 European fire salamanders

(parthenogenic) Brahminy blindsnakes *

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