Detailed explanation of the method for building a banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus) snake house

For artificial rearing of banded kraits, a snake garden or snake house can be used; for small-scale rearing, a snake box can be used. The snake garden and snake house for banded kraits should be built in a place that is sheltered from the wind and facing the sun, on high and dry ground, with dense soil, relatively close to a water source yet far from residential areas, and quiet. The snake garden should simulate the wild environmental conditions of the banded krait. The surrounding wall of the snake garden should be 2.5 m high, the inner surface of the wall should be smoothed with cement, the corners of the wall should be built into an arc shape, the wall foundation should extend 1.5 m underground, and at a depth of 1.5 m in the soil layer, lime-sand-clay mixture should be tamped solid to prevent rodents from burrowing and the snakes from escaping. The ground of the snake garden should have a certain slope, with drainage ditches around the rounded corners, and the inlet and drainage openings should be fitted with wire mesh screens to prevent the banded kraits from escaping outside the garden. Banded kraits are photophobic, often coiling up and resting during the day, and come out to move at night, so a snake house about 1.2 m high, about 5 m wide, and about 6 m deep should be built in the garden, with a gap left at the bottom of the passage entrance for the snakes to enter and leave the snake nest. Alternatively, a simple old house can be renovated into a snake house, but it is required that the walls inside the house have no seams or holes and be insulated, and the doors, windows, and corridor of the snake house should have wire mesh screens to facilitate ventilation and make it convenient for keepers to observe, feed, and remove feces. A certain number of snake nests should be built inside the snake house. The ground of the snake nest should be about 10 cm higher than the ground outside the nest to prevent water from flowing into the nest. The other 3 sides outside the snake nest should be piled with 0.5 m thick soil in the shape of a mound. A water pool and a feeding pool should be built in the garden.

The water pool is required to be higher than the feed pool and connected to it through a shallow water ditch. The feed pool has a drainage opening, and the opening is fitted with a screen to prevent snakes and feed animals from escaping. Water can be drained outside the garden through the drainage ditch to ensure that the water in the pool is in a flowing state. In the feed pool, @#@237@#@, eels, and frogs can be raised for the snakes to prey on freely. In order to create a living environment suitable for the growth, development, and reproduction of banded kraits, trees, grass, and other plants need to be planted in the snake garden, and rock piles and stone caves should be stacked for them to inhabit and hide.