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GREEN SNAKES

Green snakes are not good for beginners, but if your a little more experienced, they can make great pets. I mean the rough green snakes. i do work with smooth greens in the field. Rough greens can be hard to take care of. I have had great luck giving mine lots of room to hunt, roam, bask, hide and swim. I also gave mine UVA lighting, and offered only 3-4 calcium dusted crickets at a time. My first, Bobber, was about 3 feet when I got him. I had him about a year; he died of old age. My second, babby Bobber, was only about 3 inches when I got him. He recently went through a huge growth spurt. This one attacked crickets immediately the day I got him. He gapes to look scary. If you have any questions, feel free to post them here.

DAVE

Most of the roughs I have kept have required about the same maintanence that any of my other snakes have. If not less, simply because they eat invertebrates. If they eat for you in captivity, there isn't just a ton else that makes them hard to take of other than the fact that they can stress fairly easily. But with the correct setup, they do fine. I think everyone needs to stop claiming to be experts with one species or a nother (which it seems like is popping up a lot on this forum) and let the questions come and be answered. Because I highly doubt one of is an expert, myself included (so you don't think I am just belittling everyone).
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Andy Maddox
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Houston Herp Key
The Reptizone

Burgundy baby, With your blue eyed soul, You play the hits and I'm on that roll, Capricorn sister, Freddie Mercury, Jupiter Child cry

Couldn't agree with you more

I would love more info on the Green Snakes...all of them...
saw one at a Reptile expo, thought it was nice, wanted to know more...I have Boas and Pythons....and would enjoy finding more info on the 'Green Snakes'. So anyone out there that can direct me to more info, or on finding one for sale, I look forward to your reply ---

Alan
New Jersey

I included a link. Check out the section on rough and smooth green snakes.
Michael
Michael's Place

That is really not true.I caught my rough green snake in Summer 03 and he is a rough green snake.He'll take anything I give him.I have him in a 55 gallon tall cage now.He was in a 10 and he did fine.A rough green snake was my very 1st snake and im only 13.I caught him on our road.

He has a "girlfriend"right now he has bred her.....She has already laid her eggs...waiting for them too hatch!!!!

Thanks
~Kara~

Congragulations!

I guess rough greens have better luck in this world than I thought. They can make very wonderful pets. I'm just saying that they're nothing to put in a shoebox with some aspen bedding. Good luck with that breeding actvity.

DAVE

I know what ya mean!People said "Kara,Rough green snakes ALWAYS die in captivity!"I did not listen,I followed my OWN belief.
He is a really neat snake!He has NEVER tried to bite even when I caught him...gentle as a lamb.

Cant wait too see some babie rough's!There cute when babies...

~Kara~

Hi again:

Gret job doing what you thought would work. Green Snakes can make excellent pets. I guess I just saw too many sick ones in pet stores. You're right; baby roughs are cute! I'll see if I can download a picture of my 10 month hatchling. Now if only i could get this scanner to work...

DAVE

Never try to guage the ease of keeping a species through pet store species. I rarely see healthy pet store herps. And therefore, if I followed that same logic you were using, corn snakes, kingsnakes, horned frogs, and leopard geckos would all be considered tough captives.
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Andy Maddox
AIM: SurfAndSkimTx04
MSN: Poloboy32486@hotmail.com
Yahoo:surfandskimtx04
Houston Herp Key
The Reptizone

Burgundy baby, With your blue eyed soul, You play the hits and I'm on that roll, Capricorn sister, Freddie Mercury, Jupiter Child cry

HI:

You're right about that too. I prefer to buy from private breeders. I own a corn snake and many other herps, and very few were bought at pet stores. My green snakes have done well, and, from what I have heard on this forum, other peoples have done well to. Sure, many people say their greens don't eat, but I simply think it was because they're so secretive, and the keepers never got to witness the feeding itself. It took a year or so before I actually saw Bobber eat, but baby bobber ate about 4 crickets right away. I guess what this means is, you can't say something about a whole species and think its true. Its like humans. The character all depends on the individual.

DAVE