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Hi there:

I ordered a baby night snake on Thursday. They are shipping it on Tuesday, so it will be here on Wednessday. They offered babies, juvenilles and adults. I opted for a baby. I read that they are insectivores as babies, but that they are tricky feeders as adults. I have a few questions:

What should I feed it as an adult (reluctant to feed herptiles to herptiles)

I am using shredded aspen as a substrate. Is this OK?

It does not really matter to me, but I am just wondering, are they gentle snakes?

Has anyone here had any experience keeping these?
THANKS!
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If you are going to keep snakes such as night snakes, at one point, you are going to need to feed it other herps. In the wild they'll eat snakes and lizards. You can trick it to eat mice, but it will want lizards. If you end up not being able to feed, drop me an email.

Mike
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Actually these snakes do quite well on rosy red minnows which they can learn eat from a shallow dish or flopping infront of them.

While mine was alive it never ate the rosies. No matter what your most likely going to have to feed it some kind or part or another herp. A plan I concocted is to keep a small group of geckos (i used medditerranean house geckos) that lose their tails with little provacation and when I needed snake food I would just take one out and it would lose its tail. Thus while still wiggling I would feed it to my snake. Eventually they will tame down then you will have to catch fresh geckos.