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Need Info For 13 Unidentified Hatchlings

suki'smom

suki'smom

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Well I live in Wisconsin and I was out and about the yard and discovered a pile of snake eggs next to the fire pit and rather that letting them get destroyed I brought them inside and stuck them in the incubator. About 2 1/2-3 weeks later when I opened the box to candle the eggs, 13 little hatchlings tried to get out of the box.

First of all I have no idea what they are. Unfortunately when you google wisconsin snake species you really only get pictures of adults or older hatchlings. They hatched out a solid steel gray color with bronze undertones, white bellies and about 4 inches long. A few of them have opaque colored eyes so they will shed soon. Now they are about three days old and a faint speckled appearance is beginning to show on some of them. With some more heavily speckled than others.

Second I am not sure when they will want to eat and what to feed them. I raise mealworms and blatta but I'm not sure either of those will work. Pillbugs maybe? I heard most hatchlings eat after their first shed. Is this true?

Any information would be greatly appreciated :)
Mariah
 
Pics would help a lot....
At 4 inches, and that color, I'm almost inclined to start the guessing with ringneck snakes; but I'm not sure about the white belly part (I don't remember them having a white belly, would have said yellowish)
There are some other possibilities, too.
 
Let's try this:

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Wow thanks guys! That looks just like them :) I had a suspicion that they were green snakes when I found the eggs but when they hatched I wasn't so sure. Pics on google didn't help much either, all the babies were bright green :/
 
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