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The neighbor kid brought me a snake he caught on a recent trip to Wyoming. I have identified it as a Yellow Bellied Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris).

Anyone have a caresheet location for this guy/girl? Research tells me they are very opportunistic predators, but do they do well in captivity?

It is native to my area of Colorado, so if I need to, I will release it, but I'd love to keep it, if possible.

Thanks!

Here are some pics:

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Randy
www.ball-pythons.net

of these guys? Or has anyone TRIED to keep one of these guys? I still haven't been able to find a caresheet anywhere. Anyone have any firsthand experience?
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Randy
www.ball-pythons.net

I've maintained several buttermilk racers (same species). I've found them to make good captives with fairly low maintenance. I recommend standard colubrid care for them. They are a bit more active than many others colubrids and frequently a bit more flighty, therefore a larger enclosure and a couple of tight hide spots. My racers fed well on frozen thawed anoles and tree frogs, and all eventually took f/t small mice with some taking f/t small mice scented with frog and/or anole more readily.

And it is doing fine on F/T small adult mice.
Same requirements as far as temps as rats/kings. They are fast snakes though and do not settle down much. They seem to be the hyperactive snakes of the snake kingdom. Although mine is more black than blue, it is from northwestern MO. Still trying to figure out why mine is black. Looks alot like the southern black racer but where it was caught is way out of southern or northern black racer range.

Anyway, good luck.
Brian

>>The neighbor kid brought me a snake he caught on a recent trip to Wyoming. I have identified it as a Yellow Bellied Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris).
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>>Anyone have a caresheet location for this guy/girl? Research tells me they are very opportunistic predators, but do they do well in captivity?
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>>It is native to my area of Colorado, so if I need to, I will release it, but I'd love to keep it, if possible.
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>>Thanks!
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>>Here are some pics:
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>>Randy
>>www.ball-pythons.net
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1.0 Corn snake (KY locale)
1.0 Black rat snake (KY locale)
1.2 Black rat snakes (MO locale)
1.0 Eastern Yellow Belly racer (MO locale)
1.0 Albino Black rat snake (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Everglades rat snake (Dwight Good stock)
0.1 Yellow rat snake (Dwight Good stock)
1.1 California king snake (Coastal phase)
1.0 Prairie king snake (KY locale)
0.1 Black king snake (KY locale)
0.0.1 Eastern Milk snake (KY locale)
0.0.1 Eastern/Red milk intergrade (KY locale)

Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

I caught a young yellow-belly today. My guess is to provide them a variety of foods; grasshoppers, crickets, small mice, small snakes, lizards and what not. I'm planning on trying grasshoppers on mine or crickets. I admit that i have little experience with snakes in general so my guess is just that, a guess.