Quote Originally Posted by wilomn View Post
I kept and bred both YT and Easterns in setups similar to that, smaller but hide accessed through a hole in the bottom.

They did, mostly, crap in the bottom. Not always though. I kept False Water Cobras the same way. If I recall, and it's been a while, they just went wherever whenever.

Are you breeding your YTs yet? I bred mine in 92 and 93 then entered into a partnership that went south and haven't had any since. They were one of my favorites of all the snakes I've ever kept. I think my male was over 9 feet.

I bred the YTs from 2001 to 2003 and the BTs from 2002 to 2006. There isn't a huge market for them and my main customers were two area reptile stores. The problem with that is that I saw a lot of my animals come back to the stores. A lot of people get in over their heads with these snakes.............

My sole YT male is now 9 years old and about 105 inches long.

Any ideas on why some species seem predisposed to not fouling their nests? I was wondering about the FWCs.............I've never kept one but I had figured that if any other colubrid could be "potty trained", they'd be on the short list.