Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Has anyone had experience with lined snakes (Tropidoclonion)?

I feel like I don't see them mentioned on this forum.

Thanks,
Billy

Hello,

I will try to obtain as much information as I can. Not many people keep lined snakes in captivity. All I can tell you is that all it took was just one picture of one for me to be captivated by the mystery of the species. What is it about them that you want to know? I also would love to get some more information on these guys.
-----
DAVE

1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
0.0.1 Eastern ribbon snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
1.1 rough green snakes
1.1 giant African black millipedes
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
0.1 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
0.0.1 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.1 Western hognose snakes
1.2 fire salamanders
1.1 scarlet kingsnakes
0.0.1 scarlet snake
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
1.1 Southern ringneck snakes
0.0.1 night snake
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
1.0 rough earth snake
0.1 Northern brown snake
COMING SOON: Western worm snakes, Midwestern worm snakes and West/ Midwest intergrades, more Brahminy blind snakes!

I've seen pictures, and they're kind of pretty in a garter snake kind of way. From the pictures I've seen they seem to have an interesting defensive display too. Also, they seem like they'd be really easy captives - basic worm eaters, like Brown snakes, for example. For something that looks pretty, seems really easy to keep, and has a very wide geographic distribution, I was wondering why I don't read more about them.

Another genus that falls into that general category is tantilla - I saw an abstract online of a study of the diet of tantilla gracilis (flathead), and their gut contents were 70% beetle larvae, which implies that they'd be easy to keep on mealworms.