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Black Pine Snake
| Place of Origin and Range | The range for the Black Pine Snake extends from southern North Carolina west through South Carolina to northern Georgia, eastern Tennessee, south eastern Kentucky and south into Alabama. Disjunct populations exist in southern New Jersey, west-central Virginia, adjacent West Virginia, central Kentucky and southwestern Tennessee. This subspecies also in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama |
| Description | The colour pattern consists of a light ground colour overlaid with black, brown or reddish-brown blotches. |
| Morph Patterns Available | Yes |
| Adult Size | Can grow 5-6 feet (1.5 - 1.8m) |
| Accommodation | Prefers pine flat woods, sandy pine-oak woodlands, prairies, cultivated fields, open brush land, and rocky desert. These snakes are burrowers. They will require a a bathing dish large enough for the snake to soak in. Also include a day time heat lamp or under tank heat. Keep it at 80'F(27'C) in that spot. Branches the same thickness as the snake can be placed in before substrate to prevent injury to your snake when burrowing. 2 x 2 x 3 ft for an adult. |
| Lifespan | Can live 15-20 years |
| Feeding / Diet | Prey includes rats, mice, moles, other small mammals and bird's eggs. These snakes typically eat mice. |
| Breeding | After mating has taken place in spring, clutches of 3-24 eggs are laid in June-August. The eggs are deposited in sandy burrows or under large rocks or logs and hatch after 64-79 days of incubation. |
| Other Considerations | Snakes are relatively hardy low maintenance animals when kept in the correct environment, and require little day to day care other than feeding and cleaning out the tank as required. However, like all animals, they can still become sick or injured despite our best intentions to prevent this. |
