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Southern ringneck snakes?

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DesmondTheMoonBear

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Ringnecks and black racers make up nearly 95% of the snakes I see every year. I don't believe I've seen black racer babies/juvies and I've already seen how much spunk a two foot racer has, so keeping racers as pets seems to be out of the question. However, I seem to come across the southern ringnecks quite often. I've seem them from possible hatchlings to mature adults, and they are quite stunning. Now that I have an OK from the parents I might try and keep a couple of these next time I find some young juvies. I was just wondering if anyone had any opinions or experience with this species of snake.
 
Racers basically eradicate a population. Once you start seeing a lot of Racers, that's what you're going to see. They eat just about anything and are sort of a pest.
 
Their primary diet is earthworms. If they are wild caught instead of captive bred, it is sometimes difficult to get them to eat (we have had them for educational purposes for short periods of time due to their non aggressive nature). Like other small woodland snakes in the Southeast, ringneck snakes spend most of their time underground or hidden under logs, rocks, leaf litter, or debris and are found in our area in moist areas including river floodplains, moist hardwood forests, and wetland edges. Keep in mind that they are a nocturnal species and rarely like to be seen during the daytime (spend most of their time hiding under substrate, etc.) Most people do not realize that although they are completely harmless to humans, ringnecks have weak venom in their saliva (small rear facing fangs) which they use to subdue their prey, which include a variety of invertebrates, amphibians, lizards, and other small snakes in the wild. I hope this helps.
 
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