mud snake

[Gottee guy]

hi, i'm new here but i have many north american coulbrids and other snakes. recently my friend and i found a mud snake in a fallen down tree, in northwest florida.
it is about 8 inches long. we're trying to feed it salamander larvae, minnows,small salamanders, small frogs,and tadpoles with no luck, but i know this is normal for most new snakes.
i have a few questions.
1. since it's so small it can't eat amphiuma or sirens, but when it gets larger, where is the best place to find sirens and amphiuma or does anyone know how i could trap one?
2. does anyone else keep a mud snake?
3. should the substrate be moist, and what kind of substrate?
i am using millet seed but i plan on using ecoearth and playsand.
4. is the water bowl in the pics large enough and should i put leaves, mud, sand, etc. in it?
5. is it a western, eastern, or integrade mud snake?

[Aaron_S]

I have never kept a mud snake so any of my answers may not be entirely correct. I am going off just general knowledge of the snake that I know.

If you wish to catch it's prey items. I'm sorry but you'll have to just know in your area where the best place to get any would be. To buy those as feeders I think would be kind of difficult but if you talk to some wholesaler, or someone who does breed them for feeders you might get some.

I would use a substrate that retains humidity better than millet seed. Something like eco earth should do well and the water bowl does look big enough.

That's the best I can do for you. I have never owned one and I do not know of it's locale.

[Gottee guy]

thanks.

there's lots of prey here.
i have changed his substrate to a little bit of millet and bedabeast.

[Chu'Wuti]

That is such a pretty snake! How big do they get? It looks so tiny!

[Metalhededfool]

they get vto be roughly five foot. i just recently caught one myself in NE Florida. i'm running into some similar problems, but my snake is even smaller. anybody with info that can help please PM me!?!?