Rough Green Snake?

[Brandon.O]

Yeah ! it does have that "chondro feel" !

They are so beautiful

And im pretty sure you can handle them instead of just looking at them all the time, but of course, like any other snake, they can get stressed out, esp these guys. you have to be careful.

[Shelby]

Yeah they'll really flip out on you when you handle them sometimes. But I think with time and patience, they'd settle down.

[Shelby]

I thought of another question. Would you dust the crickets you feed a green snake?

[Shelby]

Ok guys, this is an easy question. Someone's got to know the answer!

[Brandon.O]

LOL, i dont know if my moms friend dusts his, probobly not.

It doesnt say anything about dusting crickets on any caresheets ive read before.

[Shelby]

Yeah.. well they do say that green snakes are harder to maintain since we don't understand their diets very well. Perhaps dusting would benefit the snake.

[vanzuuk1]

I am a beginner at keeping snakes, I have two rough greens in a tall exo terra tank.

They tend to be out in the day and are great to watch..they climb the vines and branches and bask close to the uv bulbs...

From what I have found on various care sheets and a book on keeping rough green snakes-

They like to be misted and tend to drink water from the leaves (i have seen them do this and drink from the dish)

They are rowdy when first handled but settle down.

I dust every other batch of crickets, and gut load them.

I offered them guppies and they just seemed annoyed.

So far I like them, its cool to see them climb and explore the tank.

A google search turned up a few care sheets and as usual the experts disagree on some details!!

[Polka.dotph]

I have two of these cute little guys in a 20g tall tank with an overhead light and mist the cage once a day. They're insectivores and eat gut loaded/dusted crickets. And yes they prefer to frink water on the leaves (love it when snakes drink, so cute to see thier cheeks puff up). Its rare to ever find a captive bred Rough, so I went out into the spot where alot of these guys hang out around the time when they are hatching so I can catch a baby so it will be used to being feed in captivity rather than going about and hunting for food themselves. Now they do stay pencil thin, so dont think that its under weight or anything like that. And they are quite aboreal (I always have to be on my tippytoes reaching my hands into the tree to catch an adult one in the wild for fun). So give them lots of spacious room to climb, ecpecially if you caught it as an adult when its used to living in a huge forest rather than a tiny glass cage. Good luck!

Also you can handle them, but not as much as you would for a ball or corn, they can get stressed out easily and will not feed easier than a ball python per say. So handle them like every two or three days and your fine!

[vanzuuk1]

Have you gotten them to eat anything besides crickets?

[Polka.dotph]

I've actually havent tried anything else other than crickets. I just let two or three of them , dusted and gut loaded, run around the enclouser until they're eaten, and its fun to watch them gobble them up. Also let them eat as much as they can in one sitting, every two-three days. And if you want to handle them after when they eat, let them rest a day before you do so. Also if yours is an WC adult, and you caught it yourself, then gather some branches and leaves around that area so it would feel more like the area it would be living in, rather than plastic plants, in my mind I think they like that better.

Anyways I would feed them nothing but crickets (get the kind that dont chirp so you wont be annoyed 24/7 ). They're more nutritious and they eat them in the wild anyways.