Diced Water Snakes

[Weather1]

Is anyone keeping them?

I saw one for sale but have not been able to find much info on them.

Any suggestions or thoughts.

Thanks

[J_Riley]

I've never heard of a diced water snake. Do you have a scientific name by chance?

[Weather1]

No sorry no scientific name. How ever when I entered it into a search a few came up for sale but no other info on them.

Thanks anyways

[Francois]

I Had 3 of russian dice water snake in a pet store where I'm working. They were very great feeder (gold fish, platy, guppy). They were cute with a very nice orange or yellow belly. When we take them they "hiss". But I never be bit by this snake. Keep them on newspaper or on aspen bedding; they musk very well and like all the water snake, the poops smell very bad.... The latin name is natrix tesselata.

Good luck :)

Bye
Francois

p.s. sorry for my poor English, chu Québécois! :P

[Weather1]

Thanks for the help. How much are the selling for??

[Francois]

Hi!
I don't remember exactly, but I think it was about 40 ou 50$. But this was the price in Quebec city, I don't know for the rest of the Canada :)

Bye
Francois

[Weather1]

I saw it for $42 so I guess it is probably the same snake. It wasa cool looking and may have to look at it again

Thanks

[Simon R. Sansom]

I've seen N. tesselata only once, at the first Toronto show I attended back in '95 or '96. I don't know who the vendor was, but I do recall that the snakes were just little juveniles.
I find it very interesting that the European colubrids do not seem to enjoy much popularity in Canada.

Simon

[Weather1]

I did a search for Natrix Tesselata and only only cane up with about 2 english sites. All the rest are in either Italian, German or others.

Wish I could find some good info about them:confused:

[LisaT]

Can you tell me what Italian pages you have found?
I can help with translation there if needed :))

Ciao
Lisa

[Weather1]

Thanks for the offer Lisa, I will have to find it again.:D

[wyz]

Found this post with "search"

I saw a specimen in a petstore in Montreal and me and my GF found him pretty cool. We thought it looks like a viper :) .. Pretty cool looking snake.

I'll look for info on google, but if anybody as info on these guys, please let me know.

WYZ

[anacondaman]

wen i worked at super pet, we used to have one. it got loose in the back but it would always come back to the goldfish tanks to eat. they arnt the nicest looking snakes...but they are very interesting

adam