All Comments: Rough Green Snake

It was good to hear of someone else who appreciates these beauties (Riana)! I've got 3 now. I have them in a large cage in my classroom (I teach 6th Grade Science). The kids absolutely love them as do I. From researching them, I've found that many die prematurely due to their diet and/or not having the enough humidity. I've only had mine for two months and I am trying as much as possible to vary their diet. However, crickets are the most readily available. But from what I understand it is best to feed them younger crickets with a soft/or no exoskeleton and to gut-load them with a mix of cricket food,collard greens and carrots. Please share any info you have too so we all have a better chance of keeping these guys alive.

I teach 6th Grade Science in Virginia. I'm the sponser of the very popular "Snake Club" that meets every other week at the end of the day on Wednesdays. I thought Rough Green Snakes would be a good addition/replacement for what I already had. Boy was I right! I love these little guys and the kids do too. They are very active and for the most part are agreeable to being held. I ordered 2 yearlings and 2 hatchlings from Don Scolara in Florida. He sent me great ones and threw in an adult as a bonus. I've had them now for about 2 months. Unfortunately the two babies just died. I'm going to learn as much as I can so that when the female yearling that I have lays eggs next year (I hope), I will know better about keeping them alive. In the last two months, I have been tweaking their cage environment and find that they like 20-50% humidity and 70-90 degrees in Temperature. They eat crickets but they should be small crickets b/c they can't digest hard exoskeletons. My big one ate a huge spider. They also ate moths. The more soft-bodied insects we can get them to eat, the better. They do well on a varied diet from what I have read. If you feed them crickets than gut-load them by feeding them cricket food and collard greens and carrots. I too am shocked that these aren't more popular in the pet trade.

I was going to buy a rough green snake from someone online and didn't due to high shipping. It's a good thing I didn't because my son found one in our backyard. I brought it inside and it's in a terrarium with a turtle shell to hide under and some faux foliage to climb around on. When I first brought him in he would musk me a little if I startled him, but he stopped doing that completely in a couple days. He doesn't rub his nose raw looking to escape and he eats really well (from a bowl no less!!), and really seems to enjoy handling. I take him out almost every day and lay him across my shoulders, he twines his body in my hair and around my neck and is content to stay that way for long periods of time. I don't understand why these aren't more prevalent in the pet trade, they are excellent pets.

My daughter has a rgs and it seems friendly enough. I put freshly mowed grass in the tank every few days and keep it under a lamp. We've only had it a couple of days but it eats good and seems happy. I let it loose to crawl all over the house but it seems to stay in the living room and it eats the roaches we have along with crickets. I guess we're doing alright with it. My 6 yr old named it jacob, which we're not sure if it's a boy or girl.

I bought a rough green snake 3 weeks ago and I can't seem to get it to eat. The tank it resides in is a 10 gallon, the humidity is always around 65-70', and there is adequate climbing and hiding places. I have 2 small crickets in there now that have been living in there since I got the snake. But it still wont eat. I even put a waxworm in it yesterday, and still no eating. What am I doing wrong? I love the snake, its a beautiful color and stays small, very docile allowing me to hold it everday. I really don't want to return it to the pet store I got it from. But how do I get it to eat?

My husband brought home a RGS about two weeks ago and it is very frendly. It likes to be held, my children love to hold it and it crawls all over them. I have not had any problems with it. I'm asuming it is a female since I got up this mornning and there where six eggs in the tank with it. I have been feeding her grass hoppers Caterpillars and small frogs. She eats when she wants. Sometimes she will go a couple of days without eating but she is doing good so far.

I have two RGS. My kids caught them at the river last summer. We feed them crickets from a local bait shop in the winter time. In the spring and summer we catch all kinds of bugs on the front porch (by the lights at night). We live in Alabama so its relatively warm all year and its easy to catch bugs for them. My kids like to take them out of the tank and play with them sometimes. I recently found out that they are male and female because we have eggs in the tank now. She had 5 eggs about 3 weeks ago. They are pale yellow in color and are almost as big as a jelly bean. Im excited to see if they are gonna hatch! I sure hope so! We might have to get a bigger tank for the whole family, I dunno. I wonder if anyone elso has had good luck hatching eggs in captivity.

I caught a rough green about 3 weeks ago, and he is the most gentle snake I have kept. We feed him 3 to 4 crickets every 4 days, he is a good eater and very friendly. At first though we couldn't get him to eat. We thought we would have to release him, but the day came when we were going to let him go, and he ate, lol. He is a great pet, and I would trust my 2 year old son around him any day.

I bought 3 rough green snakes a couple of weeks ago. They were very hard to find and luckily i knew a guy that ordered them from California (I'm in NY). They all have very different personalities. One snake is very calm, larger than the others and fun to handle. She likes to wrap around my fingers and climb my body like a boa. My next snake is very small and squirmy. He is very friendly but defensive when surprised. My last is VERY aggressive. He doesnt let me touch him and hisses at me when I try. When I do, he is very wiggly and hard to handle. Overall, these are very fun and beautiful snakes. The neon green and yellow is gorgeous. I love the fact that they eat crickets instead of mice, too. It's also fascinating how they like to climb opposed to other snakes. These snakes are very fun and pretty but have very diverse personalities. Not recommended for a child because of how unpredictable and fast they could be.

A week ago, my 7 year old daughter caught our RGS in the woods. This snake has quickly become a part of our family. We were getting worried when she wouldnt eat the crickets that we placed in her habitat. We have read website after website on suggestions for feeding, holding, lighting, etc. None really give a single clear answer. All seem to have different suggestions. So maybe our experience will be helpful. Much to our suprise, "Katie" loves to be held! She loves to curl around my daughters hand and cuddle into her neck. She enjoys her branches to climb on, though doesnt seem to spend much time in her covered log, nor in her water. Though, we believe she goes there, as her bedding seems to be in the water. She sometimes sleeps near the heating pad we have under her aquarium. But prefers her branches. Finally, today, she ate two very tiny crickets, after spitting out a meal worm...litterally! But, again, to our suprise, she would only eat it if we hand fed it to her. How many should we give her? We dont really know, but we'll try again in a few days. We did place a couple in her home for her to try and catch. Hope this may be helpful to anyone as confused as we are. This little snake is so sweet, and so lovable, that we hope she continues to adjust well to life with us.

I had a rough green snake that I caught in the wild for about two weeks. She/he never attempted to bite and she enjoyed being held. I had the 12 inch long snake housed in a 20 gallon aquarium with a fake log and a rock pool. I also had a heat lamp. I never misted her cage because no one told me to-oops- but she was happy and liked to swim in the pool. The pet store told me that she was a racer and to feed her pinkies. We bought a pinkie and put in her cage and the snake would not eat the pinkie. Instead, it curled up with it and kept in warm, we ended up releasing both together. A few years after I had that snake, I came across another RGS, which was highly agressive and had to be promptly released.

We got a rough green snake about two months ago. At first everything was going well. She was active and ate well. She actually got depressed when my 13 year old daughter, her "mommy" didn't hold her every day. She loves being in a place where she can watch what is going on from her aquarium. She recently began looking like she had small scratches on her. I read that it is possible that the mulch we were using could be the cause of the problem. That it may scratch and stays too moist when misting the cage. They recommended that we use an indoor outdoor type carpet on the bottom of her home and put shredded newspaper over it and to change it every day. She sometimes likes to burrow and hide and I am not sure the newspaper will be sufficient, but they also said that the calcium substrate wasn't the best idea. We love our snake and want to keep her healthy. I noticed that you here are rather attached to this kind of snake as well. We recently went to a reptile expo and there wasn't a snake there that could compare to this little green snake in personality and looks. We love these snakes!

I'm planning on getting a RGS from the pet store i work at. I have a 20 gallon tall tank, 1x24x18 for those of you who don't know the dementions. I will also be getting a 75 or 100 watt basking spot light and a UVA light bulb. I will probably go with either a mulch or terra fibre substrate with vines and plants for climbing. I might get some live plants since i will be getting the UVA light, makes sense.

For anyone wondering how to feed an RGS, I have a couple of suggestions. Whenever it comes to feeding time with my snake, I make sure to put about 2 dozen smallish crickets directly in the tank with him. I never try to hand feed him because RGS' tend to be quite timid and high strung. By putting plenty of crickets in the tank the snake can eat at their leisure. Another trick I have learned about feeding is to sometimes give them meal worms. These are small and easy for an RGS to swallow since their necks are so slender. Make sure to mist your tank a few times daily for humidity and water. These snakes do not always like to drink water from a bowl. I know that mine does not. By misting the tank the snake can drink off leaves or vines in the tank. The added moisture in the tank will also help your snake shed when the time comes. Do not let your tank become too moist because these snakes can get skin disorders and respiratory illnesses easily and do not often recover from them.

I have had my RGS for about 2 1/2 months. His name is Jeremy. The first RGS that I had died the day after I got her home. The pet center gave me a new one a few weeks later. I have never seen him eat, and he has not shed at all since I've had him. He likes to be held but only if my hands are warm and tends not to like anyone else holding him. I have him housed in a 29 gallon high terrarium. There are plenty of branches and vines for him to climb. Most of the time he is basking or hidden inside his enclosure. Along with Jeremy, I have a long-tailed grass skink housed with him.

i got my rough green snake for about 2 months now but i never saw it eating, i tried worms and crickets but he was scared from it does anybody know what to do ??

my rgs is doing great now, it eats when I feed it

i had a rgs for about 2 months i named it sully i love that snake but..it only ate twice though out of the 2 months..and then died. i never knew exactly when i was supposed to feed it cause the person i got it from never told me and i didn't have a computer at the time to look it up. so i put a cricket in there every other day thinking it would just eat it whenever it was hungry. but i guess it was never hungry cause the crickets ended up dying in there, had to clean them out. i put water and everything, Sully never touched it and i didn't know what to do. but now i found your website..and read how i was supposed to feed it...thank you for the information..

We found our RGS sunning on a road in the path of a school bus. It was nervous on the first day, ate 4 crickets on the active second day, and made a nest and coiled up quietly by the third night. So far, so good. Thanks for the info...

I bought my green snake and it died in 2 days they gave me a new one free and it died too and never ate once.

my rough green snake is a darling shelia. shes called shazza and loves to wrap around your arm and she has never bit any one.

I have had my rough green snake, Squeegie, for over a year, now. She was my first snake and has not proved very difficult to care for. I mainly feed her on store-bought crickets, and feed the crickets on Flukers orange cubes. She is wonderfully tempered annd has never attemped to bite anyone.

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