Quote Originally Posted by Skiploder View Post
Well, I have a shop vac mounted to the wall of the snake house with a 21' hose. I keep all my other snakes on micro flake pine and the shop vac works well for spot cleaning sand and the flake.

The most difficult part of keeping them is feeding them. They will take gut loaded and dusted crickets, roaches, scorpions (I have a source) and beetle larvae. The problem is that - unlike other snakes - there is no F/T when it comes to invertebrates and you can't leave live insects in there for an extended period of time.
Hi, Skiploder. I see you have a pair of Chionactis, and you feed them loaded and dusted crickets. I know about dusting, but what is gut loading? What is F/T? And while my occipitalis doesn't leave anything overnight, what is wrong with leaving insects in there for an extended period? Are the other "bugs" dusted?

I caught a Chionactis occipitalis about a month ago, and it is doing well (so far) on crickets, roaches and spiders, including the Black Widow Spider. I live in the Coachella Valley, so Black Widows are easy to find, and crickets and roaches are everywhere. I wish I could find scorpions though, as I think that would round out its diet.