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Im getting the new addition to my family in one week and would appreciate any help I could get with proper care and housing,i have been told 60% humidity,60_65° at night,75° day and frozen thawed bull frog legs or small tree frogs? I want to be fully prepared for her

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Thank you, what are you keeping the humidity at?

Currently I'm misting about 3 times a week. The humidity is pretty high. It is between 80%-90%. I keep the temps at mid to high 60's at night and day temps lower to mid 70's. I do a 12 hour day and 12 hour night time. She slows down when it is dark but is very active and comes out one the lights come on. This leads me to believe she is diurnal rather than nocturnal. She is feeding voraciously on green tree frogs. She ate 5 yesterday one after the other. She went after them like a feeding frenzy. She tried to eat the anole that was in the cage but got interupted by another frog jumping by. It reminded me of a shark frezny or monitors eating crickets. It was insane. She is incredibly active. She usually cruises around her cage all during the day and a little at night, however at night she finds a hiding spot and settles in and when the light comes on she moves about. Again these are just my experiences. These are my new favorite snake. Then again I say that about every snake....lol

I have a baby one I just picked up from Tom that he didn't know he had and it looked dehydrated so I kept it in a small tupperware with about an 1/8 of water. Since then I had fed him to frogs and he has hydrated back. I don't keep any heat on my animals. I use mulch and a soil like substance as substrate which keeps the ground damp and humidity high. Hope this helps.

Here is the tiny male I just got from Tom.

A pic of my female without flaring up. You can see the male is much more colorful.

Here is a pic of the female flaring up like a cobra and you can see the substrate. Usually the ground is much wetter than this.

That is very helpful thankyou,im very excited to get her,ill post pics as soon as I get her comfortable, thanks again.

Im having a hard time getting her to eat,i have tried african dwarf frogs,green tree frogs and she wont even act interested,she hides all the time and whole heartedly refuses to be handled without drawing blood,im going to give her some space for a few days then try once again,any advice would be helpfull thankyou.

I try to mimic a woodland setting with mine. I have the mulch and tan bark mix on the ground and I keep the humidity really high with no heat. I have a low water bed with hide boxes including the flat bark. They utilize this alot as they both are in shed and not coming out day or night except to feed. I put live frogs in the cage and left them and after only the second day mine ate. I know that Christian said yours was eating really aggressively but my male was a hit or miss. Since then my male eats dead frogs right off the tongs. I also give them 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. I have found that they will feed at night on pre-killed frogs so try to leave 1 or 2 frogs out. In addition I would make sure she has a really good snug hiding spot. You can email me alex@aliannaspetworld.com and let me know how that works.

Hi, I was live in Kunming, China for 18 years, and it is the homeland for chinese false cobra. I saw a lots and actually caught some in the wild too. They are easy to keep but since they only eat amphibians you need to be careful for the parasite problem. I would recommend you feed them with live frogs instead of frog leg because w.c false cobras tend not to accept dead food; and if possible, you may want to try some water frogs instead of tree frogs cause in the wild tree frogs are not in their feeder list. Also you may try some small toads, they will eat them too. For temperature, 77 at day, and 68 at night will be good. The humility you offer works. Hopes these help you.