Where to buy and how to care for a Northern Brown Snake?

If the earthworms were big, that would be a sufficient meal. Make sure not to put in any pine or cedar substrate, paper towel is OK. The calcium dish won't do squat. You need to put the calcium on the food.

You cannot buy a northern brown snake. They are rare, and if they are native to your area it is probably illegal to buy/sell them. Besides, it's virtually impossible to find one on the market anywhere. Double check to make sure it is actually a brown snake and not really a queen snake or something.

I had one for about 5 years. I found him outside as a baby under a piece of slate in my yard in Bryn Mawr, PA. He passed away yesterday. He was always docile and would never let me handle him. He would eat earthworms in binges. He might eat daily or every other day for a few weeks. After the binge he might not eat again for a month. I kept him in a glass cage in the Kitchen with a few other small lizards all of whom ate crickets so there would be no competition for food. Everyone got along just fine. Brown snakes like to hide most of the time so be sure that you provide a place where he can retreat.

Several years ago I found a second full grown brown snake. With difficulty I was able to catch him and put him in the cage with the other snake. That did not work well. He was crazed and somehow escaped when I wasn't watching. I never did find him.

The bedding that I have been using is made of compressed coconut shells. You add water and it expands. That seems to work well for all my creatures as their waste is able to decompose just fine. There is no odor in my cage at all.

I will be on the lookout for another baby brown snake but the odds of finding one are very small as they are very secretive reptiles with excellent camouflage.

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