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I'd love to hear some comments from any of you keeping Seminatrix. Are they an easy species to keep? Anything remarkably different in the husbandry from a ribbon snake or small Nerodia?

I have never tried to keep a Seminatrix in captivity myself, but I have heard from several people who have that they are almost impossible to keep alive. Much harder than Nerodia, as hard or harder to keep than Farancia.
I caught one the other day, a Seminatrix pygaea, a gorgeous neonate, and I was so tempted to keep it....
In the wild they eat sirens and salamanders, which is a difficult diet to replicate in captivity. And they hide all the time. Anyway, good luck.

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Your are thinking of mud snakes that eat the siren etc. Swamp snakes can be kept like any water snake and feed on frogs and fishes like champs. They do like moist orchid moss to keep the ph level right to prevent blisters, but they are easily kept do well in captivity.

Dan

I had one last summer... About 13"... Lived in a little deli cup with moist moss. She ate f/t frogs the whole time I had her, and eventually I got her onto pinkies. She had the feeding appetite of a garter snake and I wouldn't hesitate to get more. Unfortunately I went on a 3 day trip and the moist moss kind of dried out...
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
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What are you stating you completly disagree on? Your experience with one specimen which died due to lack of proper housing and attention does not even qualify you to disagree on anything. lol.

Dan

I completely disagree to them being hard to keep.

Because they're not.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
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I'll disagree to disagree with this disagreable distagreement...(where's my coffee?)

Frank
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