disease prevention
Red chain snakes live in a suitable environment and seldom get sick. It is a species with low mortality and strong vitality, which is also the main reason why people breed this kind of snake in large quantities. However, snakes are often accompanied by stomatitis after hibernation or shortly after sting. Should strengthen disinfection, and timely isolation treatment, to prevent mutual infection. In midsummer and rainy season, snake farms and snake nests should be kept clean and dry. Once the environmental humidity reaches above 85%, this snake is prone to mildew. This disease is the most harmful to snakes, no less than pneumonia. Specific treatment can refer to the following methods for prevention. In order to better eliminate and prevent the above snake diseases, it is necessary to clean the snake farm frequently and change the drinking water regularly during the breeding season. Avoid excessive humidity in the site and nest, ensure ventilation in the snake farm, and give comprehensive and thorough disinfection regularly, that is, continuous disinfection for 7~ 10 days, every morning and evening 1 time.
feed point
Red chain snakes are kept for family enjoyment, and the feeding box should be made of transparent plastic, glass or plexiglass for easy viewing. The size of the box is 100 cm× 50 cm× (60 ~ 70) cm, and the top is covered with a well-ventilated and firm cover made of barbed wire. You can also raise them in wooden cases, but the wooden cases should be lined with barbed wire to prevent them from escaping through the wooden cases. In line with its favorite dark and humid environment, you can put heavy wood or stones in the breeding box to hide it, or spread a little moss to keep it moist, and provide a container for holding water for swimming. The bottom of the box should be covered with a layer of wet sand with a thickness of 5 ~ 6 cm, and the sand should be covered with a layer of paper, which is convenient for replacement when cleaning dirt and prevents small dirt from falling into the sand and being difficult to handle. Even so, the sand should be replaced with new ones every once in a while. There should also be a ceramic or porcelain plate or sink in the box, and fresh water should be replaced every day. Snakes cannot live without water. Red chain snake
In addition, put 2 ~ 3 branches thicker than the snake's body and 1 ~ 2 half-damaged big pots or clay pots in the box, put them upside down on paper, use tree segments to let the snake rest and play on them, and use broken pots (pots) to hide the snake inside, so as to live more comfortably. Red-chain snakes have a wide range of food habits and like darkness and humidity. When feeding, you must pay attention to ventilation, clean water and provide hygienic food, otherwise you will get oral ulcers and skin diseases. This variety is relatively cold-resistant, indoor breeding does not require heating, and it has hibernation habits. At this time, it provides a hidden place for it to hibernate. It is best to breed from young snakes. The method of raising small snakes is very simple. Keep it in a cave box, as long as there is fresh food supply every day. The newborn snake doesn't eat, because the yolk in its belly can last for 6 ~ 7 days. With the depletion of nutrients such as egg yolk accumulated in the body, the snake began to eat after molting for the first time 1 2 days. At this time, its activity ability gradually strengthened, and it began to eat live food such as larvae of small insects, small fish and shrimp, tadpoles and so on. Then after a few days, feed it the food of ordinary adult snakes, not every day, but every 3 ~ 5 days. After that, live insects such as frogs, mice, eggs and lizards can be fed. Red chain snake has strong adaptability to temperature, humidity, environment and other feeding conditions, and is easy to raise and manage, which is suitable for first-time snake owners. However, this snake has a big appetite and eats 1 time every 6-8 days. 1 A red-chain snake weighing 500g can eat 2-3 frogs or toads at a time, with a maximum of 5. In the process of feeding, don't always feed with one kind of feed, but often change varieties, such as mice, fish, loach, water snake, toad, chicken and so on. In order to store food conveniently, snakes can be tamed to eat dead loach. The so-called dead loach is not dead, nor is it stale, but fresh loach that is scalded to death by putting live loach in boiling water. Before taming and luring the red chain snake to eat the dead loach, other foods should be suspended. Red chain snakes also like to eat chickens, and the chickens eliminated from the hatchery are also good food. Red chain snakes have the habit of eating snakes. Therefore, only 1 ~ 2 snakes are kept in each feeding box, and it is not appropriate to raise multiple snakes in a mixed way. The big snake and the small snake, the mother snake and the young snake should not be kept together. Red chain snakes like to lie still after swallowing food. Don't disturb it at this time. If disturbed, it is likely to spit out the food it has eaten.