How Do You Keep a Pet Snake? A Detailed Guide to Keeping Snakes for Beginners
Now more and more people keep snakes as pets, but not everyone knows how to keep them, so how do you keep a pet snake? Let's take a look!
1. Types of pet snakes
The snakes most commonly kept as pets include the red banded snake, black-browed rat snake, Chinese beauty snake, king rat snake and many other species.
Snakes not suitable for beginners: the green snake (known as the "sudden death king"), the jade-striped beauty snake (beauty snake), the neck-keeled snake, and others.
1. Red banded snake
It is a species in the genus Dinodon of the family Colubridae, order Serpentes, also known as the fire red banded snake; the genus Dinodon belongs to the non-venomous snakes. It is a snake that often lives in hills, mountains, plains, fields, farmhouses and near water.
2. Black-browed rat snake
It is a large non-venomous snake, with a total length of up to about 2 m. The black-browed rat snake is also known as the house snake, steelyard-star snake, cauliflower snake (although the king rat snake is also called cauliflower snake, in Sichuan and Guizhou the black-browed rat snake is called cauliflower snake), yellow-jawed snake, goupi snake, yellow-throated snake, ciman, yellow long worm, broad snake, and so on.
3. Chinese beauty snake
Also known as the black snake, green snake, black wind snake, black whip snake, black medicine snake, black crow snake, black flower snake, water law snake, sword-ridge snake, one-line black, and so on, it is an animal of the family Colubridae. The Chinese beauty snake is a typical snake used both for food and medicine.
2. How do you keep a pet snake?
1. You need to choose a snake suitable for taming; not all snakes are suitable as pets, and it is best to choose a captive-bred young snake;
2. Prepare a box, put in a water bowl, bedding and so on, place the snake inside, and pay attention to escape prevention and ventilation;
3. Pet snakes generally eat only live prey, and can be fed mice, small frogs, and so on.
When keeping snakes you also need to pay attention to temperature; almost every artificially bred snake needs to be heated to 25°C to 28°C, the highest temperature should not exceed 32°C, and the lowest temperature should not be below 20°C. Once the temperature drops to the teens or single digits, the snake begins to stop eating or enters a hibernation state.