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I took some pictures of my snakes today here's another one.

Nice looking snake.Do you keep it in a natural set up?Do you see it much,or mostly hide?
I keep my ringnecks in a natural set up also but never occured to me that others might keep scarlets in something like that.
Bianca

Hi,
The pair of adults I have I keep in 55 gallon tanks with about 8 inches of potting soil and a few plants. It does make it difficult to find them at times. The hatchlings I keep in rubber containers. It is easier to moniter their food intake.I do keep them all apart.

do you breed them

Wow 8 inches of soil is alot.I use around 2 inches its easier to keep clean and cheap to replace but I dont keep scarlets and yours have bred so maybe thats the way to go with scarlets.
Do you find they hide in the soil?Mine Ringnecks hide underneath cork slabs and driftwwod.
Your 2 adults you keep them together?What do they eat pinkies?
What size tank do you house them in?What temps do you provide all year long/do you cool them in the winter?
Heehee lots questions but I think I am going to get one this Spring wanted 2 but read they eat each other.
Thanks.
Bianca

Hi, I have several tanks in my science classroom. I have each scarlet king in its own tank. I only put them together during about a two week period in the spring. I have sucessfully bred this pair. The two hatchlings I have at this time are not from my pair. The problem with a deep soil setting is the difficulty of finding the eggs right away
last years were too dried out by the time I located them. This year I'm planning on putting the female in a rubbermaid container until she lays her eggs. The snakes are kept at room temperature approx 75-82 degrees. the tanks are provided with a 60 watt bulb at one end from overhead for basking. I have had 2 sucessful batches from this pair5 one year and 6 the next.The big problem is finding enogh small anoles to feed a litter.

Oh thats right in your state you have wild anoles.Do yours eat every week?I read they can be difficult feeders but this was refering to pinkies I imagine anoles is their main food in the wild anyway maybe coming across pinkies once in a blue moon if even.
The baby pic you posted is white banded not yellow like the adult will it turn yellow as it matures?I ask this because I liked the white band look and will look for that type.
I read not easy to breed your method must be working.Its nice that they are being bred.My Grandma lives in Miami(Key West)I go there a few times a year.Have seen Night anole,Cuban treefrogs,Green iguanas even small colorful geckos(dont know the type)but never scarlets maybe not in that area.
I have noticed the wild anole population has dropped a lot in the last 5 yrs there.I heard there are Tokays there maybe thats why not to mention like a zillion feral cats.
Bianca

All the hatchlings I have had, had white rings which turn yellow sometime during their first year. There may be some which retain the white but I haven't seen them. There is speculation that the exotic lizards have decimated the green anoles in south FL,but I believe the brown anoles are going strong. I try to feed mine the brown as much as possible. My part in trying to control them.