Detailed Explanation of Artificial Rearing Methods and Breeding Techniques for the White-Banded Snake

The white-banded snake, also known as the many-banded krait or the golden-banded white-flowered snake, has high medicinal and economic value. Its rearing methods are as follows:

1. Build ponds properly

The snake pond is built with bricks and stones, 2 m square and 1.5 m high, and can hold 15-20 snakes; keeping too many snakes makes management difficult. The pond walls are smoothed with cement, and a movable glass cap is added on top of the wall in a T shape to prevent escape. The pond bottom is the snakes' activity area, where weeds should be planted, and snake dens should be built with sandy soil, wooden boards, bricks and tiles, etc. Build a flowing water ditch and a bait basin in the pond, and cover the pond with a straw curtain to block light.

2. Provide sufficient feed

The white-banded snake does not have a big appetite. @#@236@#@ and @#@237@#@ are its main feed. Big snakes eat big food, small snakes eat small food; generally feed live food, not dead food. Each feeding of 50 g of small loach can satisfy 10 white-banded snakes. If food is occasionally unavailable, fresh water must still be provided; otherwise, there is a risk of dying of thirst after half a month without water.

3. Artificial incubation

The white-banded snake generally lays eggs in late summer and early autumn or after autumn. After laying, artificial incubation is preferable, as this can maintain a constant temperature, avoid interference from natural enemies, and increase the hatching rate. For snake incubation tools, a wooden box or a large-mouth vat can be used as a container, with 0.5 m of moist sandy soil placed at the bottom. Put the eggs in the sand, keep ventilation, and cover with gauze. Gently turn the eggs once a day so that the upper and lower temperatures are even. After about a month, before the young snakes break out of the shells, spread the eggs evenly on the sand surface with half exposed. When the time comes, the young snakes will naturally break the shells and come out. Adding heat can shorten the incubation period, but the high temperature must not exceed 36°C, and water should be sprayed in time to prevent drying out.

4. Pay attention to safety

① Keepers should wear deep rubber boots, long-sleeved leather gloves, and carry snake forks, snake tongs, snake medicine, etc., and operate with 2 people cooperating. ② When taking eggs, you must be careful; first drive the large snake away to prevent the mother snake from guarding the eggs and injuring people. ③ The @#@246@#@ environment must be clean, and pesticides and poisons must not be stored nearby. ④ In summer, maintain sufficient fresh drinking water and feed. ⑤ Once bitten by a snake, in addition to on-site self-rescue, take snake medicine immediately. Self-rescue methods: promptly tie the limb tightly to slow blood circulation, cut open the wound with a sharp knife, squeeze out the venom, rinse with salt water, and immediately go to the hospital for treatment.