Can I keep it?
Setup
The numbers
Thermal gradient
A real gradient, 30–32°C warm against 22–25°C cool, so the animal chooses. The sheet states no separate night figure.
Why
Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.
The sheet stateswarm 30-32 °C (88-90 °F) / cool 22-25 °C (72-77 °F) / night Heat off unless < 15 °C
Humidity
The sheet states30-50% + humid hide for shedding
UVB
The sheet statesBeneficial (diurnal)
Narrower than the page we cite. The source we cite, read on 10 Aug 2026, gives a wider range than the one above. The narrowing is ours and nobody here has written down why. reptiles.swelluk.com
Drag the sun. Western Hognose Snake is Diurnal, so what it is doing changes with the light.
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 states90 × 45 × 45 cm (3×1.5×1.5 ft)
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.
- Enclosure 90×45×45
- Heat + thermostat
- Low UVB
- Sand-soil substrate
- Humid hide
- Small water bowl
- F/T mice
Food
Diet
Feeding rhythm
Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window. This sheet states a figure for each age, so each age has its row.
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. A young animal's row is drawn only where the sheet gives one: working it out by dividing the adult interval would be inventing a ration.
The sheet statesMice (avoid high-fat rats) · Every 7–14 days
Daily life
Behaviour and handling
Health
Common health problems
When to see a vet
This is not veterinary advice. If red flags appear, consult a qualified exotic (herp) veterinarian. Quarantine new arrivals 30–90 days.
Red flags
- open-mouth breathing
- months of weight loss
- stargazing
- persistent regurgitation
The species
Identity
Adult size
True scale, against a 1.75 m person
Logarithmic, the same axis on every sheet
The size the sheet states for a grown animal. This sheet gives a figure per sex; the one drawn is marked.
Why
Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.
Morphs
12 morphs, with how each one is inherited.
Reproduction
Life course
Read from the lifespan and maturity the sheet states, for animals in care and not in the wild.
Why
The minimum commitment is the low end of that lifespan, and the reproductive window is what is left after maturity: both are subtractions on stated figures, not figures of their own.
Good to know
- World-class drama queen: flattens a cobra-like hood, hisses, then flips over 'dead': tongue out.
- The upturned 'pig' snout is a digging tool for unearthing toads.
- Rear-fanged and mildly venomous to prey only: considered harmless to people.
- World-class drama queen: flattens a cobra-like hood, hisses, then flips over 'dead' — tongue out.
- Rear-fanged and mildly venomous to prey only — considered harmless to people.
The way of life is written in this sheet, word for word. The climate words summarise the two figures above them, they do not add to them.
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 it venomous to humans?
Rear-fanged with mild saliva: considered harmless; reactions are very rare.
Why did it play dead?
A famous defensive bluff: totally normal.
Why rats are discouraged?
Too fatty: females get obese; stick to mice.
Going deeper
Research dossier: read at the source, not yet cross-checked by our team. Every figure links to the page it was read on.
In the wild
Wild ecology
Specialist synthesisreptifiles.com
Natural diet
Specialist synthesis of natural historyreptifiles.com
Health and welfare
Safety
Bite evidence
Peer reviewed toxinologypubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Later case
Medical case reportpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Light and food: the evidence
Thermal humidity
Western
Specialist husbandry source conflictreptifiles.com
Housing through life
Enclosure geometry
Substrate depth cm
https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/heterodon-nasicus
Others in this group
What this sheet states
Every field this product runs on is stated here. That is not a claim that the values are right: it says what the sheet states, not whether it is true. Whether a human has read it is the badge at the top of this page.
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.