They actually get darker on top with age. I had a pair for many years. They don't usually aclimate well to captivity, but the ones that do are prolific eaters and have awesome personalities, one of my favorite snakes. They generally eat eels in the wild, but once they start eating, they'll eat anything that moves. Their jaws do not seperate like most snakes to eat larger prey, but they make up for it with biting power.

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• Help to I.D this snake - gothai, Tue Mar 8 03:37:54 2005
• RE: Help us to to I.D this snake - Greg Longhurst, Tue Mar 8 04:26:51 2005
• RE: One of the Cylindrophis? where are you? - jfmoore, Tue Mar 8 16:40:14 2005
• RE: Oh, I see now - "goTHAI". Right. Then, Cylindrophis ruffus n/p - jfmoore, Tue Mar 8 16:46:32 2005
• Mud snake - copa, Tue Mar 8 18:12:01 2005
• REsorry diddnt mean to put mud snake i think its atype of pipe snake - copa, Tue Mar 8 18:22:56 2005
• re:Cylindrophis ruffus/ Red tailed pipe snake.... - gothai, Tue Mar 8 19:57:02 2005
• re:Cylindrophis ruffus/ Red tailed pipe snake.... - WW, Wed Mar 9 03:09:23 2005
• re:Cylindrophis ruffus/ Red tailed pipe snake.... - gothai, Wed Mar 9 19:46:39 2005
• re:Cylindrophis ruffus/ Red tailed pipe snake.... - gothai, Wed Mar 9 19:55:56 2005
• re:Cylindrophis ruffus/ Red tailed pipe snake.... - rick gordon, Wed Mar 9 22:42:49 2005
• re:Cylindrophis ruffus/ Red tailed pipe snake.... - gothai, Mon Mar 14 20:56:31 2005