Brahminy Blind Snake??

[jjhill001]

Originally Posted by TRD

Yes, blind snake is like keeping a box with 2' of substrate under the assumption of "something is living in there, I think"

I saw a post on a FB group going like "after 6 months I realized my blind snake didn't die" showing a pictures of part of it pressed to the glass about 1' in the substrate.

I'm not sure that is going to be much fun to keep..

Interesting surely though. People keep Kenyan Sand Boas and they aren't seen much either.

Also it's always neat to be able to learn to keep something unique and be able to talk about it. If someone is talking about how they are caring for a blind snake on the forums I'm gonna read it all because it's interesting and rare.

[DJC Reptiles]

Originally Posted by jjhill001

Interesting surely though. People keep Kenyan Sand Boas and they aren't seen much either.

Also it's always neat to be able to learn to keep something unique and be able to talk about it. If someone is talking about how they are caring for a blind snake on the forums I'm gonna read it all because it's interesting and rare.

Kenyan sand boas are not one of the smallest snake species in the world, and they certainly are a lot more fun to watch eat and hold. There really isn't too much on the care of blind snakes. I would just recomend a 73-85° Thermal gradient from one side of the cage to the other, they are too small to supply a warm hotspot. They also will eat pinhead crickets, but ant larvae, would be their main diet, which means keeping them in a bioactive large enclosure with ants is a must (the bad thing about this is, you'll never know when your snake is alive or dead, which is why you should just keep the ants and ignore the snake). It's a miracle these things survive in the wild.

[TRD]

Originally Posted by jjhill001

Interesting surely though. People keep Kenyan Sand Boas and they aren't seen much either.

Also it's always neat to be able to learn to keep something unique and be able to talk about it. If someone is talking about how they are caring for a blind snake on the forums I'm gonna read it all because it's interesting and rare.

Yea, sandboa's in a deep substrate is similar to keeping a jar of dirt too. You rarely see them. Well I had one that was bold enough to bask during the day (E. miliaris).. was kind of fun but he was a complete dickhead otherwise (ruin his place, and holding him felt like trying to hold Satan).

I recently acquired a wc pair of Rhamphiophis oxyrhynchus, those are fun and not too often seen.