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by winkin on January 1, 2002
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Are sea snakes legal to keep? I was thinking of the yellow-bellied sea snake. In Georgia. In Hawaii.
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by Naja_oxiana on January 1, 2002
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I can virtually guarentee you that they are illegal in Hawaii as well. In fact, they will likely be illegal in every state with tropical/subtropical coastal waters. I say this based on a conversation that I had with DK, who had several Laticauda. DK is a professional herper in Fla. His zoo came to keep both species of Laticauda for a time, but due to the remote possibility that they would escape and possibly survive and establish themselves in the intercoastal waterways, they were made illegal. The zoo was not allowed to keep their specimens and they were transfered to a zoo in Texas, I believe.
I know that the Baltimore Aquarium has had a sea snake display from time to time. Personally, unless you have the funding to run a professional display, I thikn they'd be too much trouble to keep. (BGF could comment on this.) With regards to the legality, sea snakes are Elapids, the same as a cobra or mamba or coral snake and should be legal wherever venomous snakes are--with the likely exception of the aforementioned coastal areas.
Cheers
Roger
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Good luck keeping em alive...
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by TAIPAN78 on January 2, 2002
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Yellow bellied sea snakes are deep ocean serpents who spend their lives floating around with the curents. They are completly equipt to deal with an oceanatic life style and are helpless on land. To try and keep one in a tank would be cruel IMHO. To even have a snow balls chance in hell of keeping one alive would require a huge tank, probally swiming pool size or more, with salt water and unless youve just won the lottery, i dont see you being able to afford it.
The only sea snakes I have ever seen kept in captivity were sea kraits and these guys are the only sea snakes which regularty come on to land so one could keep them in an anphibius tank and have them thrive but all of the other species are almost if not exlusivly aquatic and I it would be hard, if not imposible to properly keep them, especialy at the hobbiest level.
Later,
Jeremy
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by BGF on January 3, 2002
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True sea snakes are tough to keep alive. Most species are very specialised feeders. The ones I've had the best success with are Hardwick's (Lapemis hardwickii) and Olives (Aipysurus laevis). I've, however, finally got the pelagics to work by starting with juvis in a tank with lots of floating sea weed. They are thriving little suckers and very cute! All are in lg (2000 liter) tanks.
Sea kraits are a breeze and require less space and will spend a fair bit of time out of the water. They feed primarily on eels and will take the common farmed raised fresh water ones off of foreceps. Duncan McRae at HerptoFauna Indonesia has them for sale.
Cbeers
Bryan
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by BGF on January 16, 2002
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There are spiny tailed sea snakes there (Aipysurus eudoxii) but no A. peronii (Horned sea snakes) as they do lousy in captivity since they are specialised goby feeder.
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B
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