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I have liked snakes for a while but didnt want one cause I like furry little creatures and couldn't use them as food. I got this snake and was told it was a vine snake and would stay small and only eat crickets. I might have heared the man wrong but I dont think it is a vine snake. The snake is about a foot and a half long. Any info will help. Thanks
Spooner
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Rough Green Snake Opheodrys aestivus to me. could be a smooth green, but it looks like the scales are keeled to me.

Yeah, you can see the keels pretty good. Make sure you dust the occasional cricket with a calcium/mineral powder. A solid diet of crickets is not good enough. Better yet, raise your own & gut load them.

~~Greg~~

Thanks for the help. I looked at that kind of snake online and that looks just like the snake. I am glad it isn't a vine snake. I buy crickets by the 1000 and gut load them for my other animals so the snake will get gut loaded crickets. I just needed to make sure that the only thing the snake would need to eat was crickets since I like mice and other small furry animals.Thanks again.
Spooner

Yeah, the greens are a strange genus. They get large enough & inhabit areas where lizards & frogs ought to be a large part of their diets, but they are, to the best of my knowledge & reference material strictly insectivorous....not strictly, they prey on spiders as well.

~~Greg~~

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Its a Rough Green Snake, they get around 22-32 inches top. Record is around 45 in. though.

Brandon