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RE: insect eating snake

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Posted by: FunkyRes at Sun Jul 2 02:34:27 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FunkyRes ]  
   

I know from experience that western yellow bellied racers eat insects as young, but they change their diet to lizards and small rodents as adults.

If you do not want to deal with rodents, perhaps a garter or water snake? They eat fish.

Or you can go with frozen rodents.
You that them and warm them in warm water before feeding, but they aren't alive.

If none of those are viable options, several species of lizard make excellent pets and feed upon insects. I'm partial to Alligator Lizards and the smaller species of Skinks. They eat insects and often (with alligator lizards) enjoy eating some vegetation (such as raw spinach leaves).

There are probably not very many insect eating snakes. There are a few, but I don't think I've ever seen any in the pet trade - except for racers, which seem to only eat them when young.

There are some species that eat worms or slugs.
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