HOME | DD
michael-ray — Chilomeniscus stramineus
Published: 2010-06-14 09:27:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 1396; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 51
Redirect to original
Description
Captive Chilomeniscus stramineus - Variable sand snake.This is a small, fossorial snake that resides in Southcentral Arizona and northern Mexico.
Related content
Comments: 14
Yay, I love snakes! This is a nice little pose.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks. I wish I had found this guy when I was in AZ a couple months ago, but this is a friend's captive that I shot.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Oh, really? Man... I wish I had a pet snake.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
You should get one. Everybody should have one. haha.
I've kept and bred hundreds of snakes over the past 15 years or so. It's a great hobby.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I plan to get one! Well, actually, I'd like to get more than one, haha. 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I care about venomous snakes more than nonvenomous snakes, then I care about colubrids. I have no interest in keeping or working with any boid species besides Woma and blackheaded pythons. AS far as my favorites, I'm going to go with a few different arboreal vipers, Cape cobras, and South African puffing snakes. These are all snakes I have been able to work with and I'm planning on owning and working with them again whithin the next 6 months or so. I'm also a huge hognose fan though and they're one of my main breeding interests.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Hm... interesting. Is there any particular reason why you have no interest in boids? Well, no interest except for the two kinds you mentioned, anyway. Vipers are really cool, I like them. I will say, though, that while I think venemous snakes are amazing and have a lot of respect for them, I'd never want to work with or own them. I'm not brave enough for that, haha. I love watching them and seeing other people handle them, but as for handling them myself... 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I just think boids are kinda boring. Haha. Most of them just sit there... Most of the nonvenomous snakes that I care more about are active hunters, for one. The reason I like Womas and blackheadeds is for that reason. They're a lot more colubrid like than any other boids.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Aw, poor boids. 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It has such an interestingly shaped head. Cool shot!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks. They spend most of their time "swimming" through sand, so the pointed snout helps, and the countersunk lower jaw helps keep them from ingesting substrate.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Agreed. Wait until I get pics of the shovelnose we got. It's kind of similar. Slightly same kind of face. It's about twice as long, but the same girth. I think it's a much cooler snake.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0