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What kind of snake eats insects? I really don't want to deal with rodents.

I know from experience that western yellow bellied racers eat insects as young, but they change their diet to lizards and small rodents as adults.

If you do not want to deal with rodents, perhaps a garter or water snake? They eat fish.

Or you can go with frozen rodents.
You that them and warm them in warm water before feeding, but they aren't alive.

If none of those are viable options, several species of lizard make excellent pets and feed upon insects. I'm partial to Alligator Lizards and the smaller species of Skinks. They eat insects and often (with alligator lizards) enjoy eating some vegetation (such as raw spinach leaves).

There are probably not very many insect eating snakes. There are a few, but I don't think I've ever seen any in the pet trade - except for racers, which seem to only eat them when young.

There are some species that eat worms or slugs.
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rough green snake is probably what you'd be getting if you want to restrict your snake's diet to strictly to insects.
Rough Green Snakes are available in pet trade, available in the wilderness of the States.
They are green, small, and handsome. some snake haters like rough green snake because they arent like others.

Only one problem. they are not a beginner snake IMO.
You may want to collect more information before getting any snake.
learn their natural diet, habitat, behavior.
you should be able to figure out what you have to do.

-Jake
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t-rex make sausages for snakes (snake steak sausages) maybe you could look into those.

brahminy blind snakes eat ant larvae, but the adult size is only 6", anything else that eats insects as an adult will be very small.

maybe its possible to have an adult corn eat very large insects?, some feed thier hatchling corns crickets, maybe you could keep increasing the size until your feeding you snake bugs that equal the size of a mouse. but this might not work, could be harmful, and would be very expensive.
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jake

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0.1? amelenistic corn snake (zyklon)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)
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Not just expensive, but also quite harmful.
Since insects don't provide same or equal amount of nutrients as rodents, therefore, your snake will most likely suffer insufficient vitamin/mineral/calcium you know what I mean.
I don't think it is worth the trouble and health of the rodent eating snake.

If your family has trouble with mice, you can try this.

1. Buy frozen mice.(possibly, lots of pinky)
2. put it in a blender
3. make your own mice sausage.

yes, sounds disgusting.
but if anything goes, then anything goes...
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Thanks for all the ideas and suggestions, I've had snakes before so I do know some about them. My last one went on a hunger strike and I went from 2 rats to 27 in a month. Its hard to find pinkies here for babies and no pet store carries frozen. I could always order online I guess but its such a pain.
The Rough Green Snake was the one I was thinking about, very pretty. I will look into its care, I'm experianced with reptiles so it shouldn't be too difficult.

Another suggestion is the regal ringnecked snake. They eat earth worms and some times feeder fish.