Tentacled snakes are fully aquatic, but pretty difficult to care for from what I've read online and in books about them. Apparently you need to keep the salinity at a brackish level to keep blisters from forming, but they need fresh water to drink. In the wild, they drink when it rains and since salt water is heavier than fresh, they'll drink from the layer of fresh water that forms on the surface during a good rain before it all mixes together again. Gnarly. So, as much as these snakes fascinate me, how the heck do you simulate THAT in captivity?!
Snakes?Fish?
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That a pretty sexy tank!You could have made it a little deeper and housed some pretty cool fish.
Yeah. I wanted to upgrade the tank, but I moved, so I had to get rid of it. =/
It was hard to keep the cichlids alive though. They needed more attention than the snake did. Had to feed 'em and change their water and give them lots of underwater caves to hide in. It was neat though, they would hang around the snakes head like they were buddies or something. Good times...
It was hard to keep the cichlids alive though. They needed more attention than the snake did. Had to feed 'em and change their water and give them lots of underwater caves to hide in. It was neat though, they would hang around the snakes head like they were buddies or something. Good times...
elevatethis;2186482; said:
It's interesting. I've tried to speak to as many people that have kept these snakes and in the main most have said it has been much easier than their reputation lets on. A few people have bred them and have a few generations no problems with freshwater. A lot use blackwater extract though. That, the right temperature and I believe allowing enough room for the air above the tank to not become stale and too humid. However some people seem to keep them in full water no access to land, others in smaller amounts of water with land access and say they seem them on it a reasonable amount. Certainly an interesting species though. I have a PDF article study on them somewhere, I'll have to look to see if it mentioned water conditions.
I've kept Acrochordus granulatus and it didnt bother any fish that cannot fit unto its mouth..some of my friends said its a constrictor so i removed it afterwards...but as ive obbsereved its 80% aquatic..though will still gasp for air
Right now I have a northern brown water snakeand a garter snake in a tank with some native fish most of them are eaten but I think the large ones are eaten by the northern and the smaller ones by the garter. But I usually maintain enough fish in there where you can still get the fish affect.
Right now I have a a garter with my small,easily bred fish.He eats some of them,but mostly they ignore each other.
the new england aquarium keeps a pair of anacondas with a large school of tetras and a pair of red spotted river turtles
