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Prairie Ring-Necked Snakes

tress29

tress29

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Has anyone ever kept one of these little ring-necked snakes? I saw them on Kingsnake classifieds...
 

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They are insect and worm eaters, if I recall correctly. They prefer high humidity and lots of places to hide, as they are shy.
 
I've been googling them! They need a moist natural environment with lots of hiding places. On one site, the couple hand fed them worms. I think if I lived in FL it'd be more tempting. Adding shipping to a $20 snake?

The midwest reptile show is next weekend here in Indy. I'm going to look at some garter snakes, but my boys keep dragging me away from the balls...
 
I remember catching them as a kid in Missouri, but we never kept them. Mostly they come out at night and grab bugs. To find them, we'd look under rocks in moist soil so they seemed to like the higher humidity. They are very pretty and docile but small.
 
I used to find them fairly often when I was younger and tried keeping a few. As I recall they were a pain to feed, and ALWAYS turned into escape artist within 2 weeks
 
They are cute, but just by what everyone is saying about them eating insects... I can see that being a pain. I would say they're one of those "nice to look at, nice to hold, but better off in the wild" snakes. That's my opinion, by no means do you have to agree :) If you can figure out the trick to keeping them do it! But I wouldn't pay for shipping for them, pick them up at an expo.
 
I would say they're one of those "nice to look at, nice to hold, but better off in the wild" snakes.

I wouldn't pay for shipping for them, pick them up at an expo.
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Do they live in Indiana? Our reptile show is next weekend, I'll keep an eye out.
 
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