Finally got one!

[Didymus20X6]

Here's a cheap suggestion for a hide: a small flower pot turned upside down. Like 50c at Wal-Mart. Use a pair of pliers to break a small hole in the rim to serve as a door. If you feel ambitious, you can top with some coconut fiber or straw for that "Thatch Roof Cottage" look (just keep an eye out for Burninators).

Someone else around here suggests empty halves of coconuts, but since they can't be carried by European Swallows, and African Swallows are non-migratory, you'll have to make do as best you can.

[Kantar]

while we are on the topic of teeny snakes

Northern Redbelly I caught


I'd imagine dekayi/brown snakes are much easier to take care of than these

[GaiusIuliusTabernarius]

Here's a cheap suggestion for a hide: a small flower pot turned upside down. Like 50c at Wal-Mart. Use a pair of pliers to break a small hole in the rim to serve as a door. If you feel ambitious, you can top with some coconut fiber or straw for that "Thatch Roof Cottage" look (just keep an eye out for Burninators).

Someone else around here suggests empty halves of coconuts, but since they can't be carried by European Swallows, and African Swallows are non-migratory, you'll have to make do as best you can.

I think the paper towel role will suffice for now... just have to look on the bright side...

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I buy coconuts when they are on special and my dad or brother saws them in half. Then I remove the meat... Snakes love coconut hides!

[GaiusIuliusTabernarius]

Well I tossed two snails that I found in her enclosure. I hope she likes them.

[RedSidedSPR]

May be better to take them out of the shell... I don't know anything about feeding snakes snails, but she may go for it easier.

[GaiusIuliusTabernarius]

Well I read that brown snakes are able to eat them in the wild, so we'll see. since the snails are alive I'm sure they'll migrate to the water dish if she's not hungry. If she doesn't go for them after a while I'll crack the shell.

[infernalis]

Well I read that brown snakes are able to eat them in the wild, so we'll see. since the snails are alive I'm sure they'll migrate to the water dish if she's not hungry. If she doesn't go for them after a while I'll crack the shell.

DO NOT CRACK THE SHELL!!!!

Dekayi suck the meat out of the shell and if you break it, the snake Will choke.

[snakehill]

Amazing! I think I have a brown snake in my yard! I thought his coloring was different from the normal easterns around here. I usually see him out at dusk although I have not seen him since I picked him up! He was the snake that musked me and when I put him down he was gone!

[GaiusIuliusTabernarius]

DO NOT CRACK THE SHELL!!!!

Dekayi suck the meat out of the shell and if you break it, the snake Will choke.

Yeah that's what I read, I didn't. I just put the two snails in whole, along with a maple leaf for them to eat. I just checked and there is no sign of them... So either they are hiding under the leaf, or Tiamat was especially hungry this morning. Either way when I was working in the yard earlier I found half a dozen more snails and about 4 earth worms. I put them in a bucket with some dirt and leaves and sealed it with a flat piece of plywood with a cinder block on-top. That way I have a stock of snake food. and possibly fish bait...

Are there any types of snails/ slugs I should avoid? I know about the red wrigglers, all my earth worms are the normal brownish gray kind.