Rough Green Snakes are very difficult to keep alive for an extended amount of time - even captive bred babies. Putting an adult in a cage with an anole would certainly stress out the lizard. Putting baby Green Snakes (which are about the size of matchsticks) with an anole would result in the snakes becoming lizard food.

A tank your size is way too big to be keeping baby Green Snakes in. There's no way to keep track of the babies in that size of enclosure and to insure that they're getting food.

I've been keeping snakes for over 30 years and I attempted to raise 5 captive bred Rough Greens. Four of them died within the first year and one lived for two years. The snakes had UVB exposure, so I don't think that was an issue.

I think what Shannon suggests is more likely the cause - an inadequate diet. Although they feed on crickets in captivity, they eat a far wider range of foods in the wild (including snails and frogs) and the exact components of their diet isn't well understood.

On a difficulty scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest, Dr. Rossi rates Rough Green Snakes a 4 (and Smooth Green Snakes a 5) in his book "Snakes of the United States and Canada: Keeping Them Healthy in Captivity."

Tim

A Rough Green that I found in Kentucky a couple years ago:

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