Trans-pecos eating insects?

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And another potential problem is Trans Pecos rat snakes are nocturnal, & they won't appreciate your bright plant lights. Personally, I wouldn't do this for that reason, besides not trusting the beetles not to chew on the snake. Bright lights hurt their eyes & will stress a TP unless they have very deep hides for darkness, & lights are ONLY on during the day?

I did think about this, although with the plant grow light at least, I plan to wean the plants off of it once they are no longer seedlings. Once the plants get larger, they will actually grow too tall and be too close to the light, so will probably get burnt. Then, I'll just have the regular fluorescent tube light on during a normal day cycle only. Unless having any light at all is bad?

There are already burrows in the tank, which I made. I have some rock slabs dividing them under the substrate and covering them from above. There is one on the warm side and one on the cool side, and sort of an in-between burrow. The warm-sided one is deeper and probably has 3-4 inches of head room, where the cool-sided one is like 2-3 inches of head room? I can always change these as well, before I get a snake. I did read TPs live in rocking outcroppings, and when I saw that, it was like my terrarium was made for one lol. I may expand the warm end hide so more of it touches the UTH, but actually haven't turned on the UTH yet for just the beetles.

I have some driftwood, but will place these once the plants are larger so I can figure out what looks best.

Oh, and regarding the DFBs, they are detritivores and eat vegetable scraps and stuff. People keep them in tarantula cages and I have heard of them being used in snake cages as well as arid leopard gecko enclosures, but they seem pretty uncommon so it is somewhat of an experiment. I'm actually not sure how well they clean up snake poo so I will probably still do some cleaning on this front, or will get a dung beetle or two, or both. I think the DFBs mostly eat wood, seeds, and stuff like that, but apparently will eat dead insects. I don't think their little mouthparts are strong enough to bite into a snake but if that happens, they are definitely being exiled to another terrarium.