Anyone got any experience with these guys? The field guide (and my limited experience finding them) seems to indicate they like relatively lower temps than some of the other local colubrids...dietary preferences ranging the gamut from lizards to rodents, favor cover, they dig, preferring a sandy soil...active from 15-30 C (like 60-85 F).
I'm planning on using a tank with 2-3" of a sandy substrate with some cork flats, a temp gradient from room temp to about 85, a small water bowl, and possibly some climbing structures. I've never *seen* one climb in the field but hey.
I'm going to try starting them on live pinks, and if that doesn't work I'll get some skinks or fence lizards for scenting.
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long-nose snakes?
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I kept a long-nosed snake many years ago and it presented no problems. I kept it in a shoe box with paper towels. Being a desert snake they seem to like it dry. Mine ate rodents without any problems. I fed it frozen thawed. One thing is it would never eat with daylight. So I put a frozen thawed rodent in his container and placed the container in a closet and closed the door. 30 minutes later I removed the container from the closet and found a chubby snake with no rodent. Worked every time. I kept the snake in a warm room and again never had any problems with that snake.
Dan
I have also kept longnosed snakes a few times. The captive bred ones I kept did fine on paper towels with a hide box. The WC ones I kept preferred a deeper substrate but did find with a few inches of Aspen shavings rather than sand.
Feeding was an issue for some of the small ones, but I found a piece of skink skin (or skink shed) on the nose of a pinkie worked every time. After one or two scentings, they switch over. Like many burrowing snakes, they prefer smaller prey items.
I used to keep a pet Plestiodon tetragrammus specifically for the purpose of collecting her shed skins to scent pinks.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas
