I'm looking at getting a rough green snake in a few days and am setting up the tank today. What is a good sized tank for one? I have a 10 gallon and a 20 gallon long. I can buy a bigger one if needed.
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Rough green snake question
waldo
Sep 29, 2006 11:03 AM
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Paul Hollander
Sep 30, 2006 04:41 PM
I have never kept a rough green snake, though I caught one once. However, as far as I know, they are fairly arboreal. The one I found was waist high in a bush. I'd go with the 20 long and provide lots of thin branches.
Johm Rossi's Snakes of the United States and Canada: Keeping Your Snake Healthy in Captivity, Vol.1, The Eastern United States is the first place I would look for green snake information. It's a fairly expensive book, so I would use interlibrary loan rather than buying it.
Paul Hollander
odyssey
Oct 05, 2006 11:38 AM
There is also one of those fairly short not-too-expensive books that one finds in pet stores (the books with almost-square pages; I have one around here somewhere but I can't put my hands on it right now) that is all about green snakes, and that could get you started as you wait for the big book to come in. As I remember, it had some useful beginning information in it.
