
Honduran Milk SnakeMore photos coming soon... |
| Scientific Name: |
- Lampropeltis triangulum hondurensis
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| Description: |
- One of the beautiful snake
- In wild honduran milk snake is in three colours; with wide orange/red, narraw black and yellowish band
- There is bi-colour Honduran Milk Snake in today's pet market, which is called "tangerine phase"
- Nocturnal animal
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| Distribution: |
- Central and South America
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| Breeding: |
- Sex maturity at age 3
- Incubation period is about 10 weeks
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| Nesting: |
- Up to 24 oviparous and elliptical eggs
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| Size: |
- Adult snake: approximately 4 feet
- Rarely up to 5 to 6 feet
- Yound live: It's about 4 inches long
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| Diet and Feeding: |
- Aggressive carnivors.
- It eats wide variety of prey, including mice, rodents, birds, snakes, lizards, frogs and others.
- In captivity, adult snake eats a mice once in one or two weeks.
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| Snake Habitat and Vivarium Housing: |
- The habitat ranging from river valley, hillside, field and agriculture area.
- Temperature from 82�F to 88�F
- Humidity from 65% to 75%<
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