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1.I have 1 brown snake and I got him 1 and a half weeks ago,he's wild caught.

2.The setup is a gravel bedding.A water bowl,a small fake palm tree and a stick for climbing.A broke conk shell as a hideaway.I have it in a 10 gallon tank.

3.I'm not sure how to feed it so I just put the worm in the aquarium but it buries itself before the snake gets a chance to eat it.I also tried putting slugs in the aquarium but the snake refuses it.

4.The snake is about 10 inches long and about half a inch wide.

P.S. I'm 12 years old and I LOVE herps.I'm also trying desperetly to catch some ringnecks cause I heard they're easy to feed.I have seen some and they are are awesome.

get rid of the gravel put in some potting soil the hides are fine but I didn't try this but you could try a flat piece of bark as another hide. as for feeding what I did was took a plastic tupperware whatever you call it and cut a hole and to get rid of the sharp edges took a lighter and melted them smooth. you then fill this container with some nice dekaying leaves and stuff and dirt and add worms to this and the sanke(atleast mine) would go in when he was hungy eat his fill and leave. try this if this doesn't work (hard to tell if it does) just take a bunch of worms on the top of a bucket and let your sanke see them(one time while holding my snake while adding more worms to his tupperware he grabbed the biigest worm in the bucket and ate it while in my hand.
PS I hope this helps I too am 12 but was 10 when I had my dekays snake and kept him for about 7 months then released him in the same spot with more girth than when I got him.
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1vine snake
2 turtles
1 greek tortoise
1ball python
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1 het for albino san diego gopher snake
1 sunbeam snake(any help with these guys even when not on a post about them will help thanks)
1 tarantula
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

hey um im gunna guess where ur animals are,when you walk in on the left are u mice cages, then next to those your vine snake (on the ground) on top of him are your turtles, turt and taco, then keep going u got the corn on the ground,gopher on the left on the ground and childrens next to him, above them is ur tortoise keep going right uve got ur turantula (is that how u spell it)
then u got ur ball python on the ground in a giant cage

if im right thats exactly what i would do,

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Hi,

The tank size, and emphasis on a hideaway, fresh water, and climbing branch all sound good. However, I would probably recommend a different type of bedding. Gravel has never worked well for me with the smaller species of snakes. I woud say that the substrate of choice would be either moist, additive-free potting soil, or cypress mulch with a small pile of moist sphagnum moss. My brown snake habitat has a substrate of dry cypress mulch, with a small flower pot that looks like a stump, embedded into the mulch, and filled with moist soil and worms.
You certainly have not at all had the snake long enough to start worrying; it sounds just the right size. You may never witness the snake eating (although that is quite unlikely), but it will most likely find the worms and devour them as they are added. It sounds as if you are doing a very good job.
P.S. ... ringnecks rule!
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