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Does anyone have anyknowledege on these snakes in captivity?
Also, is KingPin Reptiles Incorperated trustworthy? (Can I buy with confidence that I won't be scammed?)

I don't have any experience with Sonora, but I do have an Arizona elegans candida. In the wild little guys take primariy lizards, but adults will often take mice readily. They seem to be very slow growers. I caught mine as a neonate over a year ago and it's barely a foot now. Babies are pretty easy to scent over to mice, when I got mine, I rubbed the pinkies on one of my pet Sceloporus for the first few feedings and after that the snake took unscented.

I've heard of people haveing success with Sonora semiannulata when fed a mixed diet of crickets, mealworms and waxworms. I have a Chionactis occipitatlis, that takes dusted crickets. I believe that gutloading the prey items and dusting with a high quality vitamin and calcium supplement are important for keeping these little insectivorous snakes healthy in the long term.

-Alice

i have kept several over the years . all i could get them to eat is small scolapendra centipides

i used to keep a beutiful pair of sonoras 11" length, red-black rings, they feed on small dusted crickets, they never took meal worms or wax worms.

keep a small piece of barely wet moss in the set up, in order to avoid sheeding issues.

saboteur.