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I am interested in keeping a rough green snake. Does anybody know where I can get a captive-bred one? Any information would also be greatly appreciated.
-Thanks

i asked about rough green snakes a while back also because i wanted to get one. as far as i know no one breeds them. they are usually WC. most are hard to get eating and have parasites.

my friend bought one from a pet shop, though, and she says it's doing real good for her. the biggest thing about them is to get them to eat. she says hers is eating and doing fine.

I dont know why people say they are hard to eat,, i have had about 30 in my life and all ate great on crickets and catipillars.. ppl just dont know what to feed them.. and all of them were w.c.

Never kept them but A freind of mine has them now,watching them for a nature center while it's being rebuilt. And he's kept herps for over 40 years and had never tried them himself. I went over his house and they are draped right out in the open in some plants in a natural terr. and he just slid back the glass and gave them mealworms he had gut loaded on forceps and they came right up and took them from him. He said they are calm and fine unless you try to pick them up. He told me he normally feeds them crickets but had run out the day I was over. He's kicking himself that he never worked with them before. I may try them someday too. I had always thought they were terrible captives, that were too nervous and wouldn't eat.

It was the first time I EVER saw a snake eat an insect! really odd but cool.They would make beautiful display animals in a nice terr.I think I would use really good full spectrum lighting though, they seemed sort of Anole like. That green is beautiful! good luck.

I don't think they are tough at all as long you understand their requirements, they love to bask and should have full spectrum lighting. Also they need to be cameoflaged, so they are most comfortable in a naturalistic environment, i.e. live plants etc. They need a variety of insect fare, or well fortified. They can be bred but are not economical. They have short life spans 2-3 years in captivity on the average.

Do they really have short lifespan, or is it that most captives are wild caught adults and not given proper care?

Its hard to imagine a snake living so short under optimum care.

I have a friend who caught a rough green snake. She laid eggs for him and is doing fine and eating well. The eggs are incubating now. I believe she laid five.

Dan

Dan W. Any chance your friend might sell or want to get rid of any of the hatchlings?
my email is stage9@ptd.net if there is any chance of obtaining one
-Thanks
-Eric

We have a wild caught rough green snake. She laid eggs shortly after we got her (someone gave her to us). She laid them right in her water dish. We were gone for the day, and removed them after our return. We kept them for sometime, but it was obvious that the eggs were'nt viable.
However, the green snake eats like a trooper! We never had any problem. She eats crickets (gutloaded) like they're going out of style. We also feed her spiders and grasshoppers and other wild caught bugs. She's fairly easy to keep. We don't hold her, unless we're cleaning her cage. When we do hold her she settles down quickly.

Ray.