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Originally Posted by REM955
The yellow-bellied Puffing snakes are lovely. Can you share anything unique to them?
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Unfortunately there is very little about them in the literature available to me. Spilotes sulphureus is one of the largest colubrids of the Neotropics, it can grow up to 3 m (10 ft). The distribution ranges from Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Brasil to Trinidad.
They are at least semi arboreal. Adults feed from small mammals like rodents or bats and birds, the young snakes seem to feed from lizards and occasionally from frogs.
I will keep them pretty much as I keep my Spilotes pullatus, in a large tropical rainforest enclosure (200 x 90 x 190 cm / 7 x 3 x 6 ft), high humidity, medium high temperatures and lots of living plants. I will feed them with rodents (large mice /small rats right now, appropriate sized rats later and occasionally baby chickens.
Roman
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