Hi,



I have had two WC rough green snakes for about 3 months, the first week we had them I saw the smaller one feed on a cricket, and again a few weeks later.. The larger one had problems shedding and I had to bathe it, I was unable to wipe the skin from the 3 or 4 inches behid its head as it was quite stressed....it actually tried biting me several times when I reached this point. When he did get his teeth in he had a good chew rather than bite and release, he definitely has all 4 teeth, as per the puncture marks.



The skin has still not come off behind his head and the dry patch now looks quite creased and wrinkly sometimes. Since the first two weeks we have not seen either feed, though I dont think this means they are not eating at all. They are not particularly shy, they bask all day and we regularly remove faeces from the viv, maybe two a week which is white and brown. Their food is supplemented with multi vits, and calcuim, we feed crickets and very small locust, but because of the size of the viv and the amount of foliage in there its hard to keep an eye on the crix left in the viv. I have also offered small wax worms but they are not interested in them (strangely my collared lizards dont eat them either).



Also, they are misted twice a day, and temps are high 70's in the day, dropping to 72 at night. They have only ever been handled the day I tried to help with the shedding and a few days ago when they both escaped, I found them both together under the radiator and put them straight back in the viv, again "scabby" tried to bite. In places they both have dark and bright blue marks between the scales as though their skin has stretched, and although they are not FAT they are slimmer at the neck than the mid region, I dont know if this is normal or not. We live in the UK so they hve been shipped from overseas. Should I be concerned with the dead skin stil being attached? His eyes are definitely ok, and I was careful to remove the skin from the tail so as to prevent it from tightening.



There is lots of info out there on Rough Green's and the problem is that there are differing opinions on temps, humidity and size of food. I dont know who to listen to, as most of it is a general care sheet as opposed to someone who keeps them successfully.



Can anyone help out?



Thanks,

Kelly

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