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Anyone tried keeping these suckers alive in captivity?

I live in South Florida, so I can probably get ant larvae year-round (or raise them myself), but will they eat?
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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.

There's a breeder producing albinos.. ok, not true. Maybe someday? How funny would that be. Interesting idea trying to keep them in captivity. Maybe they can be maintained.

In our Western deserts we have tiny shovelnose snakes. Way back when I never would have guessed keeping them in captivity was doable with any success. Turns out they do very well. Eat spiders and crickets, at night. I know of no captive breedings though.
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Mark

I tried to keep one that believe it or not I got at a herp show. It lasted about 1 month. Would like to try them again some time. I fed it some ant larvae and pupae, but it was winter in Ohio and they were hard to find. Also fed it dried and rehydrated ant pupae that they use for finch food, but never saw it eat. Rossi's book on snakes of U.S. in captivity has some info on them. I would think if you can get ant larvae/pupae year around they should be keepable. Rossi had kept them for a year I believe. Do an internet search. There is also a guy at a University in the E. U. S. who has videotaped Texas blind snakes eating and posted video on net.

Al Winstel