Care Sheet for *Snakes in GeneralAverage Rating Given To This Care Sheet Is 3.91 (1=lowest, 5=highest) Last Updated: 05/21/2005 |
Main Category: | Snakes |
Sub Category: | *Snakes in General |
Care Sheet Submitted By: | Bayou Beasts |
Years Experience: | Over 20 Years |
Species: | Ringneck, Dekay, and RedBellysnakes |
Other Species or Phases this Care Sheet May Cover: | N/A |
Sexing and Characteristics: | The only way to accurately sex any snake is by either popping or probing. DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS IF YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCED. Inexperience can and in most cases kill your snake. |
Mostly Active During: | Both |
Substrate and Water Needs: | Moist soil, leaves, Coconut mulch, and or cypress mulch, are good choices for bedding. Water should be provided in a clean shallow water bowl, and misting should be done using a spray bottle twice a week. You don’t want standing water outside of the bowl but the soil should stay moist to the touch. |
Lighting and UVB: | No lighting is needed for any of the above mentioned species. |
Temperatures and Humidity: | Daytime temps should be consistently in the high 70’s to low 80’s, with a night temp of about 8-10 degrees cooler. The humidity will come from the soil being kept moist. |
Heating and Equipment: | To heat you enclosure you can use a small under tank heater of if you like a LOW wattage bulb. |
Caging Provided: | I provide a small terrarium for the ring necks and dekays. A glass tank with about 4-6 inches of moist soil, some small branches and leaves for ground cover. Now this is important for these species, they must have multiple hide spots available at all times. For hides you can use anything from coconut halves to pieces of bark, we use the later of the two. |
Diet: | Carnivorous |
Description of Diet: | All three species mentioned would be considered insectivorous. They will readily accept the following food items, Red worms, Night crawlers, small crickets, termites, ant eggs, small millipedes, forest roaches, and salamanders. |
Supplements, Nutrition and Usage: | No supplements are needed for any snake species. |
Maintenance: | To maintain these species in captivity you would simply mist the enclosure twice a week to keep the soil moist and change the water daily. |
Some Words on this Species: | These species will readily breed in captivity. The ring necks lay 2-3 eggs that will hatch in about 30-45 days if kept at a constant temp and humidity. Incubation can be done as simple as using an inch or two of soil and using your thumb make an indention into the soil and lay the eggs about an inch apart from each other, now mist the soil in the incubation container when you do the enclosure of the adults. Keep the eggs at 75-80 degrees and in a month to a month and a half you will begin to see piping from the neonates which will hatch to be about 1-1.5 inches in total length.
The dekays and red bellies give live birth, but the care is relatively the same. |
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