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...is the Hypsiglena. These wee terrors have more personality than most dogs & people! Theyre very gutsy, tame quickly, & have a nasty venom [if you're a squamate meal] & because of their super swallowing capability....can be scented over to fuzzies w/o 2 much trouble as the volunteer fuzzy below aptly demonstrates...

Hi,

Nice post. I have a night snake, and agree that they make great pets. Mine accepted dead rosies the day after I got it. instantly, I was able to scent pinkies with rosies, and he took those as well. I got mine from Regal Reptiles, and the list had your choice of baby night snake, juvenille night snake, or adult night snake, all for the same price of $45.
I remembered seeing one in a book once, and I knew that not too many people keep them, so I ordered a baby. It is about 8 inches now. Mine is very, very gentle, but there is something odd about him. As with most of the rear-fanged snakes I have held, excluding hognoses, he just hangs there like a lifeless length of rope whenever I pick him up. I have had him for several months, and he is growing, and eating. He moves around, and flicks his tongue out, but he feels very delicate, almost like a rough green snake.
I will be selling and trading at a reptile show this summer, and hope to encounter some more night snakes there. The setup is very easy. I have heard that these guys are more venomous than a hognose, and I have seen pictures of Western hognose bites. Some peoples hands swelled up like an inflated rubber glove.
Probably not a good species to take any chances with...

Although I highly doubt that a bite could ever result in death. I did hear of a night snake that once bit a small dog, and the dog died shortly afterward. There are lots of questions that need to be answered... How long are yours?

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DAVE

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Nice snake John. I have one also and it has a tremendous feeding response. Snatches lizard tails and baby anoles from my fingers before I can seemingly get close enough to present the food to it. I guess this sucker will easily be switched to day-old pinks soon. I posted this pic before but not sure you saw it before.

Dan

Dont they get rather big like 4 feet?

No they remain usually about a foot or so and may get to 2 feet long.

Oh they dont get big at all. They remind me a bit of baby rattle snakes.

Night snakes are pretty awesome. I have an 11" specimen from Orange County, CA. I hope to get it on snakes, but if not, I'm sure f/t anoles won't be a problem.

Mike
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...or meebe several...

Firstly... a thankyou to Lia for taking the time to aprise us all of the reptiles photo; Ill need to check it out.

Secondly...They're not that hot, I dont beleive any dog was injured by one, nor would I compare them w/ Hognoses; when attacked by regalis, the poor hyps dont even attempt to bite in defense. On their own squamate prey tho...death occurs rapidly as it does w/ regalis. I was surprised the first time I examined their fangs...how long the wee stilletos were!
What are rosies...minnows???, if so thats a first for me & Ive read most of the Hyp literature...super congrats on surviving a neonate hyp; tho if you have access to tantillas or earth snakes im sure youre home free [Mike theyre as ophiophagous as they are "sauriophagous"]. Here in Az; it would be really tough as it is w/ maintaining our neonate corals & regals...sigh.

Almost lastly Dan; very nice looking snake. I never tire of their eyes.

John, rosy reds are nothing but erythristic minnows. Dave and another guy that's active on these forums says he has his eating them as well. I've got access to earth snakes, not so much Tantilla as of now, so I'll see if it takes. It seemed very interested in an anole tail earlier, lots of tongue flicking.

Mike
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