Thank you for the feedback! She's only about 1.5 ft long now. We have some time before we move her. She mostly hides now. I'll be glad when she's out more. She's a great eater!
I just got a young black milk this past weekend, I’m so excited to watch him grow up. I haven’t handled him yet since he’s settling in, but he was so calm at the expo I already love the personality! Been enjoying your videos meanwhile, thank you!
I so appreciate that! And congratulations. I’m going to go against the grain here and say go ahead and handle if you want. These animals are so tolerant of handling. I never wait the “standard week” before I handle my new animals. Enjoy your new Black Milk! In about 2 years you are going to have a gorgeous, shiny Black Beauty!
I stick to once a week no matter the age, unless they eat a really large meal as adults and then I will go every two weeks. Right now I am out of large rodents so they are eating multiple small once a week. And thank you.
Love your BMS videos, forgive me if this has been asked and answered already but I couldn’t find it. I have 2 males and 3 females and I plan to breed them when they are old enough. What do you do to get them ready? Do I need to bromate them before hand? Being they are tropical I would say no but being they live at high elevations I would guess yes. These are the best pet snakes never ever bite or musk, always eat and beautiful as babies and adults. My 2 year old female is about 3 foot long and still has some dull white the red is very dark though. Love the temperament the color changes the size of adults, and the easy care.
Thanks so much! And I appreciate the question. I have not brumated the past 2 seasons and had 12, then 14 healthy babies. I am not cooling this year, either. It doesn’t hurt, and once I buy a cooler, I will put all of my colubrids into brumation- but mainly to have three months off from feeding everyone!
Just so I have all the info in one place: I have a wood panel zen habitats enclosure 4x2x2, what should my lighting and heat Temps be for her as well as humidity? I want to do this right and not search different views on this subject. Thanks!
Always happy to help! Warm side about 85 degrees. Cool side don’t worry about- room temperature is fine. Also, Don’t worry about the general humidity - just provide a humid hide with Coco blocks or something similar and keep it moist. The snake will use it as needed. Thats a great cage you have. Your snake will be very happy! As far as the general substrate (we may have already discussed this) Aspen, coco blocks, eco earth, sand soil mixture- all are perfectly suitable.
So she is approximately 2 feet long with still some white, but always changing. Is it too soon to put her in the Zen Habitats 4x2x2? Is it too big at this stage? I'm just trying to get all my growing babies and adults of all different species into their permanent enclosures so I can be organized.
With enough cover and hides, it’s never too soon to move to a larger enclosure. Keeps you from having to buy multiple ones as they grow. That gets expensive!
To go along with my last reply to your response... I have a zen habitat 4x2x2, but it's the wood wall style, not their pvc one. I used to have a beardie in it. Will that work for the black milk when she's bigger? Or does it have to be glass or pvc?
Hi, I have a female black milk. She's about 1 year. She still has a little white left. I have her in a 20 gallon exo terra. I have 2 questions: Do they need a heat mat? I'm going to move her to a 40 gallon exo soon. Is that size good when she's grown?
Hey! Fellow black milk keeper, here. 40 is not going to be enough to house her fully grown. That’s actually the size of my boys enclosure now (also a year old). A five (possible six to seven) foot snake in a three foot enclosure is not going to work. I’d say 4x2x2 would be the absolute bare minimum for these guys, but if you can go bigger I would. The length and depth of your final enclosure should add up to the total length of your snake at its adult size. With some people even going as far as saying the length should be equal to the snake and the depth half of it. So a six foot snake in a 6x3. Im personally going with a 6x2x2 for my boy as it is more commercially available and I’ll have the shelving to place it on.
Thanks for stopping by. The Black Milk is one of the easiest handling snakes- more like a Corn than a King in temperament. I’ve never had a BMS bite, musk, or poop on me. They are wonderful
