Tom's Snake Enclosure

[Didymus20X6]

On Steve's advice, I decided to put my small snakey in an empty tub with a few minnows. Got a few decent shots of him eating, too!





He gulped down three good ones. That last one he didn't even fight; he just swallowed that baby right on down. Right now, he's napping in his favorite bamboo tube.

[snakeestate]

Gotta love snakes going after fish .
Nice terrarium setup tom.

[Didymus20X6]

Thanks, everyone!

Today, I did a bit of work on the substrate. It was smelling kinda funny, so I thought I better do some work on it.

First, I took out a good portion of the clay and mulch that were in there before. About half of it. Then, I gave the remainder a good wetting down and mixed it up really good. Then, to top it off, I gave it a good layer of hardwood mulch (has a very strong hickory/mesquite smell to it). I figured since it wasn't a heavily resinous wood like pine, it'd be okay for the snakeys.

So that's basically still doing a two-layer substrate. Layer one: clay and leaf/grass mulch mixture, and layer two: hardwood mulch.

What do you think? Is this a good substrate combination?