Setup
The numbers
Thermal gradient
Day: a real gradient, 28–29°C warm against 22–26°C cool, so the animal chooses. Night: 16–21°C.
Why
Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.
The sheet stateswarm 28-29 °C / cool 22-26 °C / night 16-21 °C
Humidity
The sheet statesdaytime humidity levels between 50-70%, and nighttime humidity levels higher
UVB
The sheet stateslow-intensity UVB lighting: Zoo Med Reptisun T5 HO 5.0, 22" or Arcadia Forest 6%, 22"
Drag the sun. The sheet states a night temperature, so the rail follows it.
Enclosure and conditions
Enclosure
Drawn from the stated numbers. Only what the sheet states is drawn inside.
Why
The rectangle carries the exact width-to-height ratio of the figures above it, and the ruler under it places that width on the 0–250 cm scale every sheet here shares, so two species still compare at a glance. Nothing is added that the sheet does not name: a lamp drawn on a sheet that never mentions one would be invented equipment. What the sheet leaves out is listed rather than left blank, because an empty tank reads as « none needed ».
The sheet statesminimum for appropriately keeping one mandarin rat snakes is 48"L x 24"W x 24"H
What your climate adds
This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.
What it needs
Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation.
Food
Diet
Feeding rhythm
Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window. The sheet gives several ages on one line; this is the adult figure.
Why
The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.
The sheet statesyoung mice and rats, chicks, quail, feeder anoles, and feeder geckos, prey items between 5-10% of your snake's weight; juveniles once every 4-6 days, adults once every 7 days
The species
National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.
Questions & sources
Common questions
Is this one difficult to keep?
Honestly yes. It comes from cool mountain forest, so in Thailand you need a room that stays cool for it all year. Not a first snake.
Does it bite?
Very rarely. It is a shy, gentle snake that would much rather hide than fight.
How big does it get?
About a metre, sometimes a little more, and quite slim, so it does not need a huge enclosure.
Will I actually see it, or does it just hide?
It burrows and hides most of the day and moves at night. Give it deep substrate and expect glimpses rather than a display animal.
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Others in this group
What this sheet states
This sheet states 6 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: day/night engine and awake count on the globe. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.
UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 420 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.