Ringneck Snake Bioactive Enclosure & Setup 

@8492nd squadron leader I know man, that's why I said Worm Snake. It's a different species of small snake that looks almost identical to worms

thanks a lot! when I was a kid that was what I would do lol. yes it is a brahminy blind snake. good eye.

Thank Thank!!

thanks!

Just caught one while cleaning up the leaves. We have a 30 gal aquarium and I’m wondering if this would be a good 1st snake to handle for my boy. Thanks for sharing.

great! glad I could help. sorry for the late response Idk why RU-vid hasn't been notifying me about comments.

Your welcome, thanks for watching bro. Anyways mine do fine with no heat besides the lamp. If it made you feel better you could use a heat pad but it wasn't needed for them. I feel like they get alot of escape from the room temp by burrowing

Ryan D. My dad just rescued one from his construction site as well, it almost got caught in one of the machines the bright color made them think it was some kind of cable

How's the snake doing ?

I see em at my construction sites all the time I’m gonna set up a tank and rescue the ones that are gonna end up getting squished

ty :)

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Have you seen their babies?

cool!

welcome xD

thanks!

absolutely! these are the only plants I've been able to keep alive at my house, and these snakes do move around a bunch. this is an old enclosure, the snakes all released. Now I have a new 40 gallon bioactive tank I'm working on with new ringnecks.

sorry just seeing this. you don't need either, light is just for show + lil extra heat. just make sure there is enough soil for them to burrow in

Just from me I would say yes, easy to care for. However if you want a snake with more info on them avaliable , I'd say a corn snake or something lol

How'd you know one of their names was tony? lol

they are neat! curious snakes. They can be hand fed as well but I like keeping them wild'd up lol

@@jaked-snaked awesome and thank you for the info

Haha. I'm not entirely sure they were weeds in my yard lol. I'm sure you could screenshot the video and post it on a botonist/ plant Facebook group and ask them :)

sorry late response. I would not keep them together, I eventually released these snakes then caught 2 more to keep, and they tried to eat one another. so it seems to vary on their behavior to one another but to be on the safe side keep just one or 2 of same size

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feeding worms is best

I've read that they can be cannabalistic if there is a difference in sizes (larger one may try to eat a smaller snake)

no you do not need a heat lamp and as to them doing well together I have had good luck but I will not speak from ignorance and say nothing bad could happen. At the very least, make sure the snakes are similar size.

just lift up rocks and cover and you are bound to find one, even near housing.

Malia Jane search at night under rocks and logs and things such as that

Backwater reptiles sell these

I actually couldn’t tell you what plants I used 😂 they were just weeds. If anything take plants / weeds from the areas ringnecks live around. They’re burrowers so I don’t think it would matter much.

it happens sometimes. occasionally you have to change the soil

You can try getting some springtails for the mold. They eat it.

Day to day it depends. They mostly hide but I see them out every day. If he's just under one hide all day that mayy be ok but make sure it's eating. Put more hides in and see if it travels around.

It could be stressed and in "screw-this mode" lol. Just keep an eye on him and if he doesn't eat in the week let it go.

They are also nocturnal I believe?

nothing special. They don't require UVB and temp isn't super important, they like to burrow

there could be risk of cannibalism but I've never experienced it. make sure they are the same size to be extra safe.

Yeah they're pretty hardy. It's best to mist often if your gonna have worms and plant life in with them too

@@jaked-snaked oki, thanks!

Regular soil outside lol

no. they did well in this enclosure shedding

i see them every day but they are underground a lot

hi!! i know im not the person that made this vid but ringneck snakes can live up to 6 years in captivity!

They are

thanks for watching. I fed them redwigglers from the store, and tiny frogs & blind snakes & more from outside that I caught

10 gallon

Thank you. I actually don't know anything about buying them or how much people have bred them .

@@jaked-snaked I am wanting to start a captive breeding project to try and produce some captive pet quality ringnecks :) How have they been doing in your enclosure? Have they laid eggs? Many of the bloggers I've found have had horrible luck with adjusting their wild caught ones to captivity

@@corald3638 oh wow that's cool! I actually don't have them any more because I like to eventually release wild-caughts. But I had 3 in this tank at once, and I've kept them before. They all have adapted to captivity pretty well. If you catch any for your project, I'd suggest going to multiple areas where they are plentiful and take one from each so there isn't a chance to affect the population. I definitely believe they could have bred in this tank eventually, but I didn't know the genders. Good luck

@@jaked-snaked Thank you for all your wonderful information :) you've been a great help. I'm surprised at how little information there is out there about them. Especially with how common they are. I hope to hit you up in the future with a success story to share :)

@@jaked-snaked How long did they thrive for you before you released them? Forgot to ask xP

Omg lol. An no, not usually over a foot long

just a regular bulb, they don't require UVB

yes the earth worms & isopods would be perfect. cohabitating is honestly hit or miss, it worked fine for me but I have heard others talking about cannibalism but I have not experienced it. Perhaps because how well fed they were. i also mist the enclosure every day.

they did great but eventually released them. not for any other reason besides i thought I had them captive for long enough.

Yeah I've never seen them sold. I catch them cause they are soo common. If they weren't I wouldn't do it lol

Jake Snake your lucky man well hopefully ill find one at the expo, thanks.

@@jacobcoley9114 I'm wanting to start to try and captive breed them :) I've been doing a bunch of research. Have you found any yet?

Coral Gene they sell them on underground reptiles but they are always sold out

a regular bulb they don't need UVB

I didn't heavily monitor the humidity or temperature, however I kept a big book on the top of the enclosure (just enough space for the light to shine through and I believe that kept the humidity good enough. I also misted often. No heat besides the light was used either, if I did it again I would consider a heating pad.

They don't really need the heat.

sorry for the late reply RU-vid hasn't notified me about comments. anyways if you still need info ask away here.

I think so!

if you rescued it outside, outside soil should be ok- preferably soil in the environment you found it near

Thank you. And Absolutely. I've had one over a year and the others been in there a long time too.

@@jaked-snaked thanks for answering! So you still have them? I'm dying to have a snake but I hate feeding rodents haha, so I'm looking into these or rough green snakes

@@user-yr5qy9uc6h yes I do. Try ringnecks since they are more common

@@jaked-snaked what do they eat when they are baby's?

@@raccoon6451 haven't kept babies before but I assume small insects

when they are in an enclosure like this and they hunt food inside it on their own no they will be stressed when handled, because the most part they feel wild. but one time I had a setup where I only had one (the one in the video I had the longest) where it was a more simple tank. I didn't handle him too often but I did hand feed. it would follow my fingers when i came by the tank and associated me with food.

I live in Florida so hard for me to say lol. Perhaps release them at the sunniest part of the day. If you keep one to try to help it put it in an enclosure with a bunch of red wigglers

@@jaked-snaked Thanks. It is warming up a bit The big concern is nights. Waiting for a window of opportunity have the little one in a small terrarium.

before the lizard

The ring neck snake is eating a brahminy blind snake.

I eventually released them but I had them over a year. I have a new one now

@@jaked-snaked cool

lizards- outside. worms- baitshops/walmart

What video did he mention this video or ringnecks? if that's what you mean

@@jaked-snaked animals that can live in a 10 gallon forever part 2

Regular soil, however this is not recommended for captive bred

@@jaked-snaked Ok thank you! One more question... Do you think I could take this setup design and try to use it in a medium size critter keeper or is it too small?

@@Lyrizcen hmm. As long as the cage is at least a little over the length of the snake it should be ok.

@@jaked-snaked Fair enough and I don't need to probe the snake to eat the EarthWorms,Lizards the snake will just eat them by it self?

@@Lyrizcen I can't promise anything but in my experience they have all eaten on their own. And I think I've take care of about 8 ringnecks this way.

I don't have them anymore they were released. What I used to do alot was catch native snakes, keep them & learn about them, then release them weeks/ later. Id say I had these snakes for about 5-6 months. Now I just have a kenyan sand boa from a reptile expo. I'm thinking of keeping ringnecks again though :)

southern. florida

not sure

if you hand feed them it's easier to tame them but these one aren't

not for me, but i think it was the naturalistic setting that let them thrive.

There are notes in the description :)

I don't still have them they were released. However I kept another one for a tiny bit afterwards, let it go- before it was released she had layed 4 eggs that later hatched

@@jaked-snaked that's awesome

Earwig eggs, the pincher bugs you see in the video. They clean up the tank.

Not these ones but another one did. It layed 4 eggs and they hatched and were released. So tiny.

A worm

Yes it’s a blind snake

brahminy blind snake to be exact

@@jaked-snaked wow never heard of them.. thanks for the info

@@hangles7279 they're a species originally from Asia but basically on almost every continent now

I've had good experience personally, I've even had some that I could hand feed :)

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they aren't unwanted, they are earwigs which work as the "clean up crew" for the tank, eating waste, the earthworms also do the same but also are the main food source.

Not mine lol. And I've had them along time. If there was a huge size difference it would be different

From all the research I've been doing they are a communal species with colonies upwards of 150 in one area.

you know it bruth

this thread is ancient but it’s worth mentioning, in case you didn’t read the other questions, that he keeps for a while, releases, repeat. i agree with the spirit of your comment but i’m not sure (literally, i haven’t made up my mind) if i agree. we find them in our house all the time and i just kept one. We have a property with creeks and forrest- the works. we just created a smal enclosure for the night that has a decent replication of its exact environment. we caught some red salamanders and some tadpoles and little lizards, etc. we have different humidities, hiding spots, native plants. i know not everyone has these resources but because i do i am quite happy to keep the little guys until it doesn’t feel right or it isnt thriving. be it 2 weeks or 6 months if you learn about the animal and provide a truly adequate environment then why not? he’s using earthworms because they are available and that’s the info provided on the internet. it’s easier for us to scoop up some tadpoles from our pond.

@@mymysweetdecline Yeah, I remember reading and forgetting to delete this. Just talking from prior experiences with keeping wild herps and regretting it later. But I suppose that if it’s common and you can take care of it, it isn’t a big deal. Dunno why I put so much emotion into writing my previous comment haha. Probably cause I was vigorously searching for my lifer ringneck at the time without success, since I live in an area where they’re common but hard to find.