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Hi everyone,

I had a really cool surprise today when I came into my reptile room. I lifted the flap on the front of my Brahminy blind snake tank (I have not seen the snake at all since I got it a few weeks ago) and was surprised to see a very tiny blindsnake crawling against the glass... it was much, much smaller than the one that I purchased, and is definately a baby. Upon looking through all sides of the tank, I found a little pocket in the soil hollowed out under the cool, mossy side, with numerous empty tunnels branching from it created by small snakes crawling from it. Possibly a nest? Other than the one baby, I did not see any other snakes, but they are iin there somewhere. I saw no eggs at all. Now I can expand my studies with these snakes even further!
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DAVE

0.0.1 Western green toad
0.0.1 green treefrog
0.0.1 Oriental fire-bellied toad
0.1 Western hog-nosed snake
0.0.1 Okeetee corn snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
0.0.1 yellow * Everglades rat snake
0.0.1 Eastern mud 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
1.2 European fire salamanders
(parthenogenic) Brahminy blindsnakes *

Thats awesome dave. I hope you can post some pictures of the habitat and snakes as well.

Post again when you find out how many babies there are.

Good Luck
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Cameron

Great. I have read that they can/do lay eggs AND give birth. Now I guess you'll have to tell us which....
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

Perhaps do an extensive search on the internet and you will find many scientific papers about them. I recall looking into them a while ago and finding several links to papers written on them. Good luck with them.

Dan

Hi,

I found a small object in the nest that appears to be a tiny, broken egg. I did not see any others, and I am not going to go looking for the snakes. That would probably kill them. Basically, I set up my habitat, put the snake in it, and now I will just sit back and watch, adding the ocassional small pile of ant pupae, of course. I would love to read some of those papers. If you could give me a link, that would be really helpful. Thanks!
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DAVE

0.0.1 Western green toad
0.0.1 green treefrog
0.0.1 Oriental fire-bellied toad
0.1 Western hog-nosed snake
0.0.1 Okeetee corn snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
0.0.1 yellow * Everglades rat snake
0.0.1 Eastern mud 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
1.2 European fire salamanders
(parthenogenic) Brahminy blindsnakes *

I did not save the link but just type in their latin name and do a search and you will come up with dozens of links to look at research that has been done on them.

Dan