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How should a snake house for the banded krait be built?

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For artificial rearing of the banded krait, a snake garden or snake house can be used; for keeping a small number, a snake box can be used. The snake garden or snake house for the banded krait should be built in a sheltered, sunny place with high, dry ground and dense soil, close to a water source yet far from residential areas, and in a quiet spot. The snake garden should simulate the wild environmental conditions of the banded krait. The wall around 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 in a rounded arc shape, the wall foundation should extend 1.5 m underground, and at a soil depth of 1.5 m it should be rammed solid with lime-sand-clay mixture to prevent rodents from burrowing and the snakes from escaping. The ground of the snake garden

For artificial rearing of the banded krait, a snake garden or snake house can be used; for keeping a small number, a snake box can be used. The snake garden or snake house for the banded krait should be built in a sheltered, sunny place with high, dry ground and dense soil, close to a water source yet far from residential areas, and in a quiet spot. The snake garden should simulate the wild environmental conditions of the banded krait. The wall around 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 in a rounded arc shape, the wall foundation should extend 1.5 m underground, and at a soil depth of 1.5 m it should be rammed solid with lime-sand-clay mixture 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 krait from escaping from the garden. The banded krait is photophobic, often coiling up to rest during the day and coming 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 converted into a snake house, but the walls inside the house are required to be seamless and hole-free for heat preservation, and the doors, windows and corridor of the snake house should be fitted with 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 rearing 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 should have a drainage opening, and the opening should be fitted with a mesh screen to prevent snakes and feed animals from escaping. Water can drain from the drainage ditch to outside the garden 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 the banded krait, trees, grass and other plants need to be planted in the snake garden, and rock piles and stone caves should be set up for it to inhabit and hide.

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