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Does anyone know anything interesting about this species that you would like to share with me? I read enough on the internet, but I am always learning new things about new herps I bring into my home. Thanks.

But they sure are cool snakes! I've got one that I caught in my front yard. Its my first snake, and its really cool.

If you search for my username on the pethobbyist gallery, you can see some photos I took of some other ones that I caught in my yard last year.

Matt

Anything interesting? Personally, I'm interested in everything about these gorgeous little snakes. I have a decent collection of reptile reference books, but none of them devote much space to Ophedrys aestivus, maybe because they're small, inoffensive, and not splashyly marked.

All I really know is that they're quite common, eat insects, and often don't do well in captivity. Oh, and at least two books mention that they aren't known to bite humans. Please, if you've found better resources, add to my knowledge.

I bought mine from a pet store that was keeping him in a plastic cage about six by nine inches. He's presently in a ten-gallon aquarium while I renovate a thirty-gallon. I'd like to set up a community cage with small, native species, like another Rough Green and maybe a garter snake or two. If anyone has any ideas on other types of smallish Southeastern-US native snakes that would get along well in such a cage, please let me know.

This may not answer your question... I'm not sure what NATIVE snakes you could add, but heck, I can think of a couple small milk snakes that would love the habbitat, and if we are talking a 30, more rat and corn snakes would do, and species of ribbon snake... Don't forget that so long as snakes aren't big enough to crush eachother, or are snake eating snakes, usually you can combine about any snakes without problems... I kept a burm with some corns for a while, while finding housing for it. I keep kings, corns and rats together often... I've got a display tank with my big red tails, burms, balls, and a dumerils(sp). I never have had any problems, provided all snakes are healthy. ^_^

-=Dave

My favorite setup I had was a 55 gallon naturalistic vivarium with treefrogs, anoles, house geckos, tropical fish, newts, salamanders, and, yep, a rough green snake to top it off. They all got along great! Although if you're looking for other snakes that stay small, brown snakes and redbellies are always interesting choices, not to mention some of my favorites. Ringnecks are also nice, though they are known to eat other snakes, so you'd need to be careful of size.
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1.1 Albino Nelson's Milks
0.1 Dumeril's Boa
0.0.1 Albino Corn
0.1 Mex Mex
0.1 Northern Blue Tongue
0.0.1 Green Tree Frog
0.0.1 Cuban Tree Frog

Thanks to both of you guys for the info. Now all I have to do is get the tank set up . . . hmm, I do have a 55 gallon too . . .