The Maintenance and Care of East African sandboas Cage size East African sandboas require a secure well-ventilated cage. Plastic storage boxes, with numerous perforations for ventilation, can be satisfactorily used to maintain sandboas for all of their life. The biggest females will benefit from cages with 1 -2 square feet of floor space.
Males can live in cages with one square foot of floor space all their lives.
Substrate Over the years we have maintained this species on newspaper, aspen bedding, commercially available brown aquarium gravel, sand, and potting soil. All of these substrates worked adequately, but it has been our experience and observation that this species does extremely well on aspen bedding, or potting soil. Both of these substrates are easy to maintain at a satisfactory level of sanitation. Our third preference would be newspaper. These sandboas can be successfully maintained in sand or gravel.