When I was a girl I would occasionally find one of them in the backyard or at the local creek. I would pick them up and sometimes take them home for a while and then let them go after a few days. I always found them coiled around twigs in a tree about eye level or coiled around a blade of grass when I was wading through shoulder high grass. All I can remember about keeping them was that they are were very docile, I could pick a wild one up and it would wind itself around my fingers and look around from it's new perch. :) they also loved grasshoppers, put plenty of twigs in their tank and they will strike at crickets and grasshoppers from above. Basking lights would probably be a lot more appreciated by the species than heat pads, because they always seem to want to go up. Hope this helps. :)