Sunbeam snake (Xenopeltis unicolor)

[Jlassiter]

Common names: Mexican python, Mexican burrowing python, Mexican burrowing snake.

The Loxocemidae are a monotypic family of snakes created for the monotypic genus Loxocemus that contains the species L. bicolor found in Mexico and Central America. Loxocemidae is the smallest snake family, having just one species and one genera. No subspecies are currently recognized.

They are python like but there are no pythons on the North American or South American continents.

[Snakeman8]

i ran into one of these at my local pet store, i wanted it but couldnt get it, i love sunbeam snakes.
these snakes are proven colubrids.

[KORBIN5895]

Originally Posted by StudentoReptile

They're hard to keep, too. I got a pair on an impulse purchase once (mistake). One lasted a month, and the other lasted 3.

Originally Posted by BarelyBreathing

They are VERY difficult to keep. They also only eat amphibians.

My local pet store has one that they have had for five or six months. It is eating rat pups.

Originally Posted by shaunyboy

theres a guy called Edd who lives 45 minutes drive from me,that successfuly bred his sunbeams last year

quite a feat apparently

Edd does know his snakey stuff though

loxocemus is his user name on UK forums

cheers shaun

The one at our local pet store is supposed to be cbb. I doubt it as they had four come in and all of them were the same size and marked as adults.

I think that maybe the next species I get.

[StudentoReptile]

CBB may be the contributing factor there, and/or your petstore may just be lucky. Some specimens just seem to acclimate a little better than others.

[KORBIN5895]

I doubt its cbb. The manger claims they are all cbb. He gave me his price list and several things he has brought in were "farmed" which is a term he didn't understand when I mentioned it. Three died in the first two months, supposedly from nix treatments.

[BarelyBreathing]

Originally Posted by Snakeman8

i ran into one of these at my local pet store, i wanted it but couldnt get it, i love sunbeam snakes.
these snakes are proven colubrids.

There are two species called "sunbeam" snakes. The ones I posted here are not colubrids.