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Colubridae

DeKay's Brown Snake

Storeria dekayi

Photograph: Mila C. · CC BY

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

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Temperature32 °C
Humidity40 %
Diet7 days

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
32°Warm side
Cool side: not in our data

The warm side, 32°C. This sheet states the warm side only. It gives no cool side, so the other end of the gradient is not in our data. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet stateswarm 32 °C

Humidity

40%Target RH
60% during shed

The sheet statesAn average humidity of 40%, then 60-65% when starting to shed

Enclosure
10-gallon tank (a 20 gallon will support 2-3 mature adults)

Identity

Origin

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
warm 32 °C
Humidity
~40%, 60–65% when shedding

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.

Diet

Feeding rhythm

every 7 dAs the sheet states
4Meals in 28 days

Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window.

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 statescomposting worms, beetle grubs, slugs, caterpillars, crickets and other soft-bodied invertebrates; several small weekly meals

Common questions

How big does it get?

Tiny, around 25 to 35 centimetres. It is one of the smallest snakes you will see in a shop.

What does it eat?

Slugs, snails and earthworms. The real question is whether you can source them here every week.

Does it bite?

No. It is completely harmless and usually just flattens itself or hides.

How long does it live?

Around 5 to 7 years typically, so it is a short-term pet compared with most snakes.

What it needs

A heat sourcebecause temp — warm 32 °C
A thermostat to regulate itbecause temp — warm 32 °C
A thermometerbecause temp — warm 32 °C
A hygrometerbecause humidity — An average humidity of 40%, then 60-65% when starting to shed
Not stated: The cool sidethis sheet names only the warm side: « warm 32 °C »
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet describes the enclosure without a figure: « 10-gallon tank (a 20 gallon will support 2-3 mature adults) »

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

thecritterdepot.com — lu le 2026-08-04gbif.org — lu le 2026-08-08

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What this sheet states

62%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: enclosure size audit, day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 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.