Food for my Herald

[Viper101]

what else do they eat except frogs and tadpoles? i'm struggling to find smaller size frogs for my herald.

[Ales]

Geckos,the normal Transvaal thick toes geckos are what i give mine.

[Viper101]

Geckos, hard to catch, thanks for the tip.

[Van2]

You don't mention your location, but getting food for them especially if you are in Gauteng, can become a big problem.

Rather release the snake and keep something that you can feed rodents that's much more readily available.

[Viper101]

frogs are becoming available after the huge amount of rains we had, I'm gonna collect a bunch of tadpoles as well and bring them up. I'm from Secunda, theres a lot of green strokes and small rivers / dams where one can catch frogs. Only becomes problem in winter, Secunda cold in winter, like Springs / Benoni and then food is scares.

I've had a Herald snakes for years back in the 90's which escaped later on because of naughty children. Also a Brown water snake, very similar to Herald, less aggressive but has same appetite.

[Fooble]

Growing up tadpoles is a LONG WAIT.

Heralds naturally feed on frogs and toads, they will take geckos though. If you cant supply food for the snake you should rather let it go where you found it. Not to mention it is not legal to catch and keep wild snakes.

[Viper101]

people kills snakes around here cause they don't know better, so if you ask me the snake is much better off with me looking after it etc...I've got tadpoles thats 2 weeks from frogs, only the tails must go and I catch the common "Skurwe Padda " which they happen to love...I originally just wanted to know what else does Heralds eat...I've heard that some people claims ~they eat mice.

[Fooble]

They can take scented pinkies and some ( a few) will just take unscented pinks.
I realize you have good intentions but bare in mind without a permit technically it is illegal.

[Viper101]

thanks for the advice.

[Viper101]

Got the snake since 2010, frogs much more available now, found nice spots around town for grass frogs(common long leg river frogs) they have large tadpoles and after back legs appear it only takes a couple of weeks become full frog. lots of raucous toads also available and sand frogs.

I get food throughout the year, except between May and August, the snake is very inactive at that time and will occasionally take a spade food (platanna )

thanks