Monday, May 11, 2009

Baby SERENA

Name : Mangrove Snake

Specific Name : (Bioga Dendrophila Melanota)

Category : Cat Snake

Mildly venomous

Found in Malaysia, Southern Asia in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Borneo and the Philippines

Occurs mainly in lowland jungles and mangrove swamps

Reaches length of about 2.5m

Thought of geting something smaller in size since I already had a python. Got this baby Mangrove last 3 weeks from some breeder with a very good price. This little baby is beautiful and has good contrast on it's skin.

I named it Serena !! =)

Serena feeds on lizard. Feeding wasn't a problem at all. As this snake grows older, it will turn to small mice.
It is mildly venomous, wont be able to kill a human, but a lizards like the one in the picture will do !

Same posture of swallowing their prey like any other snakes.

Check out those beauty eyes. Haha, it looks deadly but it is not, very tame instead.

There is a nice set up I made for this baby mangrove. Serena is only active at night, very shy instead, looks dead in the morning and is preparing for it's first shed one of this days.

That's all for it now, will blog about it once it turn a little bigger

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