Questions about Louisiana milk snake.
Hey everyone I recently caught a small Louisiana milk snake, she is about 8 inches in length and really cool. Anyway, it turns out that this subspecies is often too small for pinkies when very young. I'd like any advice on this specific subspecies of milksnake that you guys can provide. If you have not had experience with the specific type of snake please refrain, I'm not looking for general milksnake advice that I have already read 7587 times. Also I realize a lot of you may try to run me down for catching the snake (it seems like a pretty popular thig to do) if you can't be nice and be helpful than just refrain from posting.
Anyway, she seems to be eating crickets though i have yet to confirm this. I've been feeding one at a time so cannibalism is not occuring and after a couple days they disappear. they could be dying and be getting lost in the substrate but due to the young age of the crickets I find it unlikely. I've read that some milk snakes eat crickets and other insects in the wild when they are babies. Does anyone know of any alternative forms of food I could use? The guy at my local pet store, who has some small experience with this subspecies, told me that they will sometimes take ant/termite eggs and or small centipedes. Does anyone know if stone centipedes would be acceptable? The info I read suggests crickets and earthworms.
Also this subspecies seems to live in a more humid area than many of the others. Does anyone know whether I should be keeping the humidity at where I would for a typical milk or should it maybe be a little higher? I found her in a very humid enviroment so it seems strange to keep her is dry aspen bedding.
There doesn't seem to really be any care information for this subspecies on the web so I'm hoping you guys can help me out. Thanks.
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