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Israel M. Sánchez
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PostSubject: Feeding on sand   Feeding on sand Icon_minitimeTue 23 Feb - 6:12

Hi. I have seen that people here usually have their snakes in more or less naturalistic terraria, including sand for desert or arid taxa like Cerastes, dwarf Bitis, Crotallus and the like. Do you feed your animals on the sand? Is there a danger for gastrointestinal impaction in case the snake ingests substrate? And, what kind of sands do you use?

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Ludvig Edlund
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PostSubject: Re: Feeding on sand   Feeding on sand Icon_minitimeTue 23 Feb - 6:14

I feed my C. atrox on sand and he seems to doing just fine.

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PostSubject: Re: Feeding on sand   Feeding on sand Icon_minitimeTue 23 Feb - 6:23

What sand do you use? For my aussie geckos I use Exo-Terra's and it seems to work well (but a gecko is not a snake, the contact of the prey with the substrate lasts much longer in the case of snakes).


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Ludvig Edlund
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PostSubject: Re: Feeding on sand   Feeding on sand Icon_minitimeTue 23 Feb - 6:47

I use a sand that are produced in Sweden. It is called "Rådasand".
I think it is this one I use:
http://www.radasand.se/PublicFiles/Produktblad/M017mm.pdf

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Ludvig.
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PostSubject: Re: Feeding on sand   Feeding on sand Icon_minitimeTue 23 Feb - 7:40

Hi

Just normal Sand, there is no problem , they've got the same conditions like in the wild, a little bit substrate is nothing to worry about it.


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PostSubject: Re: Feeding on sand   Feeding on sand Icon_minitimeTue 23 Feb - 16:13

Ok, thanks for your answers.
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