Tentacle Snakes...

[lovespunaround]

The only ones I've ever seen have been at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans and at the reptile show I went to the weekend before last. Should have gotten them...that would be pretty sweet.

Other than that, I remember reading about them when I was little, in this old book called Reptiles as Pets by a man named Paul Vinyard. It was published in the 60s or early 70s. He said they're mildly venemous.

 

[loconorc]

Jeez, those are so cool! Im jealous!

Off topic, but have you kept file or elephant trunk snakes before?

 

[varanio]

files are brackish arent they?

 

[davo]

I'm not sure about all 3 currently recognised Acrochordus sp. but I know a couple are found in "pools, swamps, rivers, esturies and out at sea" so whether or not they need sw i'm not sure, I think they are found in a mixture of salinities. Don't think they are as hardy as the tentacled snakes, but then again a private hobbiest in UK has just hatched some sea kraits, which I think is a first (at least for in the UK), so who knows for the future.

 

[loconorc]

Sea kraits are elapids. Im pretty sure they give live birth in the ocean, like other sea snakes, but I think thats wrong. That whole 'snake island' on the Croc Hunter thing and all, so...

Elephant trunks and files are both brackish but Im sure they go back and forth like most brackish animals. I dunno about files, but elephant trunks have given birth in captivity a few times... Ben Seigel had some babies last year.

 

[shells-n-scales]

I myself havent kept elephant trunk snakes... althought I've been temtped too, i think tentacles look alot more interesting. I got some other neat stuff around. I just cant get any good photos to post. But knowing people, and working at a petstore helps alot... (discount on all supplies "cost price", and of course wholesale price on all animals). I've seen the thread about building a monster fish tank.. which I find very interesting.... I might want to do that with some large river turtles and arowannas....

 

[davo]

Sea kraits are elapids. Im pretty sure they give live birth in the ocean, like other sea snakes, but I think thats wrong. That whole 'snake island' on the Croc Hunter thing and all, so...

Elephant trunks and files are both brackish but Im sure they go back and forth like most brackish animals. I dunno about files, but elephant trunks have given birth in captivity a few times... Ben Seigel had some babies last year.

you might be right on that, i'm not sure. Just got to see the pics of the young... either way they were successfully bred.

 

[davo]

Sea kraits are elapids. Im pretty sure they give live birth in the ocean, like other sea snakes, but I think thats wrong. That whole 'snake island' on the Croc Hunter thing and all, so...

Elephant trunks and files are both brackish but Im sure they go back and forth like most brackish animals. I dunno about files, but elephant trunks have given birth in captivity a few times... Ben Seigel had some babies last year.

I found out for you... they were Bungarus caeruleus, and they are an egg laying species. Whether or not all kraits are I don't know.

 

[ryeguy28]

well im a noob at stuff like this


those are sweet

are they fully aquatic or ??? what size tank do they need ???
how long do they get ???

 

[shells-n-scales]

I keep trios in a 29 tall... You could keep a larger group in a 55. Fully aquatic, although they dont mind having a basking platform or floatin plants... all the ones I have are around 2ft average..