Picked up a trinket a week ago, a baby, since shed and eaten twice. Markings remind me of beauty snakes......striped tail, but really having more in common with house snakes.......small docile tropical colubrid that doesn`t hibernate, breeds all year round, with a voracious appetite. I don`t see why they aren`t more popular. My female notaeus is knocked up, hoping for the best. Trinkets are no longer elaphe.