My C.ceraste,and come with new question.

My C.ceraste was arrived for 2 weeks. It's a male(the retailer said),healthy(looks like:),and grace. Its daring is more than I imagined,it dont fear me and would go toward me when I saw it through the terriarium. So that I doubt if it's WC as I considered,haha...and it received suckling rat from my tweezer.

But my questions came with its feeding:Do you think snakes have the capacity to clean the substrate which adhering in their mouths? I means,after the foods gone into their stomachs left the sundries in their mouths,how can they clean their mouths by themselves? They dont have wide tongues and spittle!
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Yes Guo,

they have! Then when not, all snakes will die when they got dirt in there mouth. It is absolute normal, that dirt or sand comes into the mouth of a snake. In nature it is happend like in our vivarians. BUT! In our Vivarians are a lot more of Bacterians than in nature. The reason is the smal space where snbakes have to live in a Terrarium! So a clean place is very important. For example: In nature the sun is a natural desinfection medium, the UV rays kills a lot of the bacterians. In our terrariums not! We have to doe this.
You will never seen that they clean there self like Geckos do this!
Sometimes when snakes hunt for pray, the don´t hit the mouse and bite into the substrate, what will be happend when they can´t clean there moughts!?
When this will be happend, have a look one hour later into the mought, it will be clean!
Here last week it was happend by my Bitis rhinoceros, the rat jump away when the snake strike to it. The snake bite into the ground, and the mought was full of soil - short time later, it was clean.... One hour later the rat was into my snake...nothing happend with the dirt.

Peter van Issem wrote:: Yes Guo,

they have! Then when not, all snakes will die when they got dirt in there mouth. It is absolute normal, that dirt or sand comes into the mouth of a snake. In nature it is happend like in our vivarians. BUT! In our Vivarians are a lot more of Bacterians than in nature. The reason is the smal space where snbakes have to live in a Terrarium! So a clean place is very important. For example: In nature the sun is a natural desinfection medium, the UV rays kills a lot of the bacterians. In our terrariums not! We have to doe this.

Thank you ,I don't worry about that now. I think the environment disinfecting is important. How do you disinfect that? By UV lamp or some kinds of disinfectant fluid?

Hi,
I don´t desinfect them wile there are in use. I clean as normaly and when my snakes are in hibernation, I waste the old ground and put new inside! Thats all.

I have a 1.1 C. cerastes, and have found using crushed walnut as a substrate works great. It is harmless if they ingest it, and it doesnt hold humidity when it gets wet. That it looks just like dark sand is a bonus, and the snakes seem to enjoy burrowing in it. I also use it as substrate for my 1.1 A. lubricus, my 1.0 A. cowlesi and my 0.1 A. scutatus.

Daniel Quinton wrote:: I have a 1.1 C. cerastes, and have found using crushed walnut as a substrate works great. It is harmless if they ingest it, and it doesnt hold humidity when it gets wet. That it looks just like dark sand is a bonus, and the snakes seem to enjoy burrowing in it. I also use it as substrate for my 1.1 A. lubricus, my 1.0 A. cowlesi and my 0.1 A. scutatus.

Thank you. I used crushed oak mixing with sand for 2weeks.It works well...

Hello everyone I brought some new photos of my c.ceraste.looking like a tiny dragon,right?

I fed it a baby rat which size twice as its head every week,but in the past month it only ac
accepted one,seems appetite was not well as before.I dont know why...Did I feed it too much frequently before? maybe I will try lizards for it.
What is its period of feeding in wild?And what is its staple food in wild?

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