Dekay's Brown Snakes

[guidofatherof5]

Great photos.
That Zena was a good looking snake.
Nice set-ups.

[RedSidedSPR]

I love dekays. I'm thinking about keeping one too.

[drache]

whew!
glad to find I misunderstood
you're a neighbour after all, and I'd like to think we're all cool over here (in Brooklyn a little more so, of course)
cheers

[Gene0514]

Thanks

I actually ended up taking 2
They're both really nice, and 1 already ate a small slug today.
I have them in the 5 gallon for now, but since It has a foam 3d background in it, it adds more usable space for them. I also have a cypress knee branch in there. I've seen them exploring around the tank already.
I need to get some better hides for them. All I have are some hides i made from plastic jugs. I'll see if I can find something better.

[Gene0514]

Here are some pics

FTS


Background


Hides, water bowl, etc


The snakes

[Gene0514]

And some climbing pics
I'll add some fake plants later

[infernalis]

Nice, Thanks for sharing.

[snakehill]

Very nice! Don't know much about them. What do they require for care?

[d_virginiana]

Very nice snakes! Thanks for sharing

[infernalis]

Very nice! Don't know much about them. What do they require for care?

I just quoted the posts I already made on that subject.

First off, any "chubby" ones are most likely pregnant females.

They do not require any heat, they are a cool weather snake that prefers it to be right around 60 or so.

I have kept and bred quite a few, never used any heat.

what you chose to do is up to you, but by collecting pregnant females the population reduction is compounded tenfold.

2-3 can be kept comfortably in a ten gallon tank.

what you need is simply a water bowl and a place to hide.

chose your substrate wisely, use the big chunks of bark if you are going to feed in the cage, worms and slugs are sticky and fine substrate like coconut fiber or aspen will stick to the food.

A captive Dekayi will be somewhat active, I would only house a small male in a 5 gallon.

Cage carpet (sold at pet stores) makes a nice looking floor that will not stick to food.

You can get everything you need except the cage carpet at wal mart for under $30 (10 gallon tank $12, locking cover $7, hide & water bowl $5-7

I will be right back with some photos of setups that work well.

Cage carpet, the hide is just the bottom of a foam cup.



My Xena (RIP) on her bark chips..



Using "Carefresh" (paper bedding)



paper towels...



and finally, a nice setup that a friend had... she loved her Dekayi so much that when she couldn't keep them anymore, she sent them to me.