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Originally Posted by formica
nice! how did u get on with breeding them? if i ever breed any snakes I'd probly choose them, assuming they arnt too fussy about it; then again i do like problem solving 
cant wait to own one or two, one day! |
They bred relatively easy once they were established, the problem people have is establishing them in the first place, as most available are wild caught, and people feed them cb crickets and locusts when they arrive, and it changes the bacteria in the gut flora too quickly and kills them, which is why people say they only survive 6 months in captivity. If you wean them onto captive bred crickets and locusts by starting them off on wild caught food, spiders being a favorite of theirs, but woodlice, flies, grass hoppers, earth worms etc, and the odd cricket and locust, and gradually adding more and reducing the rest of the stuff, you can slowly change over the bacteria levels and the gut flora doesn't change to quickly and kill them.
They also seem to do better in groups than on their own, they are braver and feel safer in numbers, i've found them to do much better when left well alone, barely handled, a lot of foliage and hiding places and sprayed twice a day with a good quality UV light, and i bred them a few times, and have kept a lot of wc adults successfully.
and interestingly i've never had a wc adult or baby try and bite to defend itself, just try to flee when being moved, but the cb babies, straight from the egg had character
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