by Lucas S » Sun Dec 07, 2014 6:03 pm
Hello,
for two years now I keep an adult trio, I already kept a single animal some years before. They will thrive very good in captivity, but my animals never went into the water (also L. laevissimus). They took dead fish (smelt) and unscented babymice/rats from the tongs from the first day. Today they even don't accept fish anymore, now they only take rodents. Really nice snakes to keep, so I hope to breed them next year, this year my female only deposed an unfertile clutch. Anyway, my animals are mating like mad for a couple of weeks now. So far I hibernated them quite cold, for under 10°C for about 10 - 12 weeks, for the coming winter (I'm from Germany) I will try a "warm hibernation". By the way, if anyone here already bred this species, I would be very grateful for any information!
Lucas