Mystery Water Snake

[the_evil_duboisi]

Does anybody know of this water snake, Arcrochodus granulata? It is colored with black and white bands, lives in freshwater, and is non venomous

 

[The-Wolf]

googling that scientific name only brings up one seller, who lists it as 'rare',
perhaps that is not the correct scientific name.

 

[Azaezl]

The seller lists it as a zebra file snake, which when googled(zebra snake) comes up with a poisonous land snake, doubt it's that so only things I could find about 'water snakes' are these;

http/www.southalley.com/album_nerodia.html

http/www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_homalopsinae.html

http/acrochordus.com/homalopsinae/index.html

http/www.fieldmuseum.org/aquaticsnakes/mud_snakes.html

but again can't be that as the scientific names are different, perhaps the person selling it, is trying to make out it is rarer then it is and its something very different to what they are saying it is(I'm guessing it's really a zebra eel which is SW not FW).

 

[evilchild]

[URL="http/www.venomoussnakes.net/sea-snake.gif"]http/www.venomoussnakes.net/sea-snake.gif[/URL] did it look like that? if so it's a sea snake very veonmus but quite plassid as most water snakes are?

either that or a harlequin snake eel.

 

[Saedcantas]

It's almost certainly meant to have read; Acrochordus granulatus

very little is really known about it's proper captive care and I suspect it would be something of a challenge, here's an abstract from a paper on it's captive care,
Zoo Biology Journal

 

[the_evil_duboisi]

Thanks that's what I'm looking for!

Rare though. And I had the scientific name mixed up!

 

[Saedcantas]

Rare in trade, probably due to it not having a particularly popular appeal! and the little information available on how to care for it. It's actually very wide ranging in the wild

 

[the_evil_duboisi]

Okay......Now I see dozens of 8~12 inch snakes at my favorite internet fish store.

Somebody, please crush my hopes of getting one. That would be better for me in the long run. What size tank would be the minimum for one? I know that they, as snakes, would be great escape artists, and need a tight cover, but what size tank I don't know......