lampropeltis mexicana

Lampropeltis mexicana
The Snake King




Description and distribution:

The snake king of San Luis is a snake native to northern Mexico and southern States. He frequents places desert, forest and mountain.

This beautiful species is thought to include in its color was a false coral snake king, yet it is just like the getulus Lampropeltis ssp.
The colors are types of Lampropeltis mexicana drawings ringed red or orange-gray alternating more or less dark. There are three subspecies of Lampropeltis mexicana:

Lampropeltis mexicana mexicana-
Lampropeltis mexicana-thayeri
Lampropeltis mexicana-greer

These three subspecies are distinguished by their colors can be more or less marked, their scales, and the number of eggs during spawning:
6 eggs for Lampropeltis Mexican thayeri and Greer while mexicana mexicana in 12 ponds on average. This species has a fairly quiet night habits and land, it has a very important activity at night. The average size of 90cm. As all this is a snake Lampropeltis ophiophage.

Terrarium and maintenance:

a terrarium of 60 * 40 * 40 is usually sufficient to maintain a single specimen, the terrarium is a semi desert and will be installed like any terrarium: water dish and hiding substrate temperatures suitable for the species: Day 28 - 30 degrees hot and cold spot about 25 degrees at night and point High Chairs cold spot will be 20-22 ° C. because this snake lives in a semi-desert humidity should be in the range of 45-50%. The lighting will be provided by daylight or by a tube UV.
The only downside of this species is that some juveniles are quite difficult to start as the Lampropeltis alterna.

Reproduction:

To hope for the reproduction of Lampropeltis the couple must have been at rest for a little over two months to around 13 ° C, this step is usually required. Incubation takes approximately fifty days and the incubator will be a temperature of 28 ° C. The number of eggs depend on the subspecies: 6 on average for the rig and the thayeri
12 for the average Mexican.
The young will hatch was about 20cm.