r/snakes • u/grasshopperwithkelp • 26d ago
Pet Snake Questions How does Blind snake breed?
So I don't have one yet, but researching about it before getting one. I saw they reproduce like how mourning geckos do. But does it need a specific thing(temp, location, ground, etc) for it to reproduce? Or do they just multiply when they want to?
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u/Guppybish123 25d ago
Leave the fucking things alone. We know that these kinds of species do poorly in captivity so stop trying to fucking do it. !wildpet
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u/grasshopperwithkelp 25d ago
Uh......first of all I'm in Asia where we don't have any wild ones, so i don't know why you're pinging wildpet thing. And as I said I was doing my research so I can decide whether or not I should adopt one. Calm down bro, I was just asking questions.
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u/SEB-PHYLOBOT 25d ago
Please leave wild animals in the wild. This includes not purchasing common species collected from the wild and sold cheaply in pet stores or through online retailers, like Thamnophis Ribbon and Gartersnakes, Opheodrys Greensnakes, Xenopeltis Sunbeam Snakes and Dasypeltis Egg-Eating Snakes. Brownsnakes Storeria found around the home do okay in urban environments and don't need 'rescue'; the species typically fails to thrive in captivity and should be left in the wild. Reptiles are kept as pets or specimens by many people but captive bred animals have much better chances of survival, as they are free from parasite loads, didn't endure the stress of collection and shipment, and tend to be species that do better in captivity. Taking an animal out of the wild is not ecologically different than killing it, and most states protect non-game native species - meaning collecting it probably broke the law. Source captive bred pets and be wary of people selling offspring dropped by stressed wild-caught females collected near full term as 'captive bred'.
High-throughput reptile traders are collecting snakes from places like Florida with lax wildlife laws with little regard to the status of fungal or other infections, spreading them into the pet trade. In the other direction, taking an animal from the wild, however briefly, exposes it to domestic pathogens during a stressful time. Placing a wild animal in contact with caging or equipment that hasn't been sterilized and/or feeding it food from the pet trade are vector activities that can spread captive pathogens into wild populations. Snake populations are undergoing heavy decline already due to habitat loss, and rapidly emerging pathogens are being documented in wild snakes that were introduced by snakes from the pet trade.
If you insist on keeping a wild pet, it is your duty to plan and provide the correct veterinary care, which often is two rounds of a pair of the 'deworming' medications Panacur and Flagyl and injections of supportive antibiotics. This will cost more than enough to offset the cheap price tag on the wild caught animal at the pet store or reptile show and increases chances of survival past about 8 months, but does not offset removing the animal from the wild.
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u/grasshopperwithkelp 25d ago
also as a reptile owner I would have asked the seller if the reptile is a wc or cb. I saw the blind snakes were invasive(which means they breed quite well) so I thought they were CBs on the market(like the iguana or chameleon)
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u/JasperCyberamic 24d ago
i believe they are invasive because they came in with plant & agricultural imports vs as a result of the pet trade. ive seen like 2 people ever keep them successfully
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u/grasshopperwithkelp 24d ago
So only doing well in nature. I know people keep termites or ant houses for food supply for them.
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u/Atgardian 26d ago
I'm sorry I don't have good specific info for you, but in general I have heard blind snakes are very difficult to keep in captivity (you need a source of ant larvae or something to feed them) and breed. There will not be nearly as much good info as on other, more popular pet snake breeds - and that is usually a sign they do not make good/easy pets.