Storeria dekayi

Hi everyone,

Do any one of You have experiences with keeping Storeria species in captivity? A friend of mine get a couple of dekayi (they are approx 30+-cm long) and I take care for them for a couple of weeks.

I only know some basic informations about their housing what the previous owner shared with us. So now i keep them in this way.:

I placed the snakes separately in plastic boxes with a hiding place and water bowl. I use peat as substrate and i keep it wet around the water bowl (every other surface is still dry). I keep them in room temperature which about 25-26C°. I will try to feed them soon with earthworms.

If anybody have experiences with these snakes please share with us. Every informations are welcome!

Pictures will coming soon! Smile

Hello,

A good friend of mine keeps (and breeds) Storeria dekayi limnetes. they are really interesting snakes that live primarily in wetlands. The terrarium needs to be dry and around the waterbowl you can place moist spagnum moss. In the wild they come out and eat in the morning when the grass is moist from the morning dew. So when you feed them you can spray the spagnum with water so it resembles the moist grass. Than cut op the worms in small pecies and ley them on the spagnum moss. They wil come out and look true the moss for food.
You can also feed small snales without their 'house' or slugs. What also is very important that you sprenckle the pieces of food with calcium powder at least 2 out of 3 times. Yours are 30 cm so those are adult snakes, they dont grow much larger from now on.

Thats how you feed them.. if you have anymore questions feel free to ask me Wink

Hi Arjan,

In connection with feeding i have one more question. As I know collected snales, slugs but earthworms also are often infected with parasites. Is it necessary to freeze the "wild-caught" food items before feeding?

Can You tell me something about how can we prepare them for breeding?

Thanks Your help very much!