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    Teeny tiny snakes - anyone keep them?

    There's something amazing and mysterious to me about the various species of teeny tiny vertebrates, especially teeny tiny snakes. This morning out of curiosity I was looking up pictures of ringneck snake eggs and hatchlings; I'd be so excited to find one in the wild, but I imagine I'd have to look pretty darn hard, because they are extremely small.
    So it's got me wondering, do any of y'all keep very small snake species? I guess in terms of pets, anything smaller than a small garter probably qualifies as "very small", especially if you breed them. DeKay's brown snake? Blind snakes? Those parthenogenetic Brahminy blind snakes? What is it like to keep them? I'm sure handling is a challenge with critters so small, if nothing else... but they don't need retic-sized enclosures at least!

    I just think it's so totally amazing that such a teeny tiny creature can have essentially all the same kinds of bones and internal organs that humans and whales and ball pythons and alligators do, but yet inhabit such a fascinatingly microscopic world where a spider web could potentially be a real hazard and you could fit into a hole made by an earthworm.

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