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Originally Posted by AJS
Beautiful snakes and beautiful photographs.
Could you please give me some basic information on how you are maintaining the ammodytoides? Like temps and particularly diet.
I have been looking into this species lately but apart from Mark O Shea's website they are barely mentioned on the web.
Regards,
Alex
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Hi Alex, thanks for the comment!
I'm from Argentina, so it's not a big problem the maintaining of the B. ammodytoides. My friend keep it at room temperature, and eats rodents (mices).
He has that snake since it was a baby (about 2 years ago), and it's very healthy!
I could see that the B. ammodytoides from the southern Argentina are more difficult to keep, because they don't adapt very well to captivity. Besides, the B. ammodytoides from southern Argentina eat only lizards, and it's very difficult to change them to eat rodents.
The B. ammodytoides from the northern Argentina (I mean all the provinces when the B. ammodytoides is present, except Santa Cruz, Chubut and Río Negro) are bigger, easier to keep and eat rodents perfectly.
I think that the B. ammodytoides from the southern Argentina are much smaller because they are restricted for the temperature (an adult female B. ammodytoides from the south could measure 40-50 cm, on the other hand, an adult female B. ammodytoides from the north could measure about 80-90 cm).
Ok, I hope you understood my english! (it's too bad, lol)
Cheers,
moojeni
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