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Pic of my male Regal in his 10-gallon aquarium home. In the background you can see a ringless female, who the male might be meeting next spring. Both snakes are pretty good size but the male is a horse. 26 inches and built like a Gaboon viper. Well...maybe not quite like a Gaboon viper but he's girthy.

sweeeeeet. the snakes are looking good hopefully they produce for ya, I'm liking their set ups too. curious as to how you keep them in there though, I gave up on 10 gallon tanks for ringnecks, they always find a way out regardless if you give them long enough lol. I bought a 10 gallon tank with a slide in screen lid, and kept an albino ringneck and two smaller normal ones inside, one of the smaller ones tried to escape, got stuck and was found dead hanging from the lid. The other normal and the albino escaped within a week after.
good stuff though.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles
www.kingpinreptiles.com

Mike, I've had ringnecks get out of all sorts of cages. These days I use the clips that come with 10-gallon screen lids to hold the lids down tight. Real tight.

I use a mix of fine duffy soil (southern Michigan is a mix of soil types courtesy of multiple glaciers, and there are places where gophers push piles of really fine sandy soil to the surface where I can harvest it), and enough fine peat moss from a garden center to make the soil light and a little fluffy. I moisten the soil regularly, and try to avoid leaving the soil dry more than a day or so. I use distilled water to avoid buildup of salts as the soil dries through repeated waterings.

I keep a heat pad under one end of the tank and the snakes spend most of their time at the heated end. I was a little surprised at that but it's their choice and they like the heat. It seems to help them digest, which is good if you have enough food to keep them satisfied at a higher metabolism. The system works great and I've had no escapes but the snakes do spend time tucked into the ledges at the top of their aquaria, pushing on the lids, so I know if I ever forget to clip those tops I'll have free-range ringnecks.

Very pretty the Florida ringnecks are fairly dull looking other than belly .