Rough green snake as a beginner reptile?

i have never kept a reptile want want to keep one or more rough green snakes. i need to know if they need uvb lighting, foods and how much and how often to feed. substrate, heating, easy to keep live plants, cleaning the cage, decorations, water bowl, and breeding, also personal experienceRough green snake as a beginner reptile?
First of all, whenever purchasing a reptile, or any pet for that matter, you should strive to do as much research as possible before you seriously consider taking care of one. Coming here is a good idea, but you should get into the habit of finding information yourself.





Rough green snakes are good beginner pets, though they are relatively flighty snakes and due to their fragile body structure they shouldn't be handled excessively. They also are not as hardy as corn or rat snakes, or ball pythons. They rarely if ever bite, though, and are a shy species.





They tend to fall victim to internal and external parasites as well as feeding issues. Moths, crickets, grasshoppers, spiders and earthworms are a typical green snake diet, yet we mainly feed them crickets in captivity. These should be gut-loaded with potatoes or apples beforehand, or provided with a cricket diet manufactured by a trusted company. They should be offered food once a week, with the cricket about the width of the thickest part of the snake's body. You can also try wax worms, butter worms, or meal worms. Any left over insects should be removed to avoid their pestering the snake.





They average 2-3 feet in length and are an arboreal species, so they require more height than floor space in an enclosure. A 10 or 20 gallon enclosure turned on its side provides more than enough space for this snake. Heat should be provided, normally through an under tank heating pad placed on the back of the glass tank (on the outside). A temperature gradient of 70 degrees on the cool side (the bottom of the tank) and 80-85 degrees on the warm side (the top of the tank). If you can get a tank made for arboreal reptiles, you can mount a heat lamp or ceramic heat emitter on top of the screen lid (you can't do this with a glass tank placed on its side). They do not require UVB lighting.





A water bowl should be provided and cleaned daily. Also, they require moderate humidity so misting the cage daily is a must.





If you search the internet you can find lists of safe live plants to use with your snake. Be sure they are nontoxic and can support the thin body of a rough green snake clambering all over them. Plastic plants work better, as well as artificial branches and rock ledges, since they are arboreal.





Substrates you can use are sphagnum moss or wood chips. An inch or so at the bottom should be fine, be sure to check it daily for waste. About every three weeks completely disinfect the enclosure and substrate. Place the snake in a temporary enclosure and dispose of all substrate. Rinse the enclosure and decorations with a solution with heavily diluted bleach or soap and water. Be sure all soap and bleach residue is rinsed away completely and dried. Replace with new substrate.





I answered as much as I could, besides breeding, which I have very little experience with. Good luck!Rough green snake as a beginner reptile?
if your going to get a snake you might like corn snakes wayyyy better they get bigger are VERY tame never bot me excpet one bastard ahah but u dont even feel it.. they can live in 15-20g enclosures dont need uvb can live off a heat mat but a cheap heatlamp would be bestkind all it needs is a rock and a water dish and food and scooping once a week it cxan also be kept with more than one,
Rough green snakes are very different from a lot of other species of snakes. They don't eat rodents, for one thing. Their enclosures are different as well.





Just looking into their care, it seems the hardest part of keeping them is finding the right food for them: moths, spiders, grasshoppers, etc. You should Never catch wild bugs for your pet as you don't know if it has pesticides or other chemicals on it. I haven't been able to find any information regarding if they are snakes that tolerate handling or not. The less info you can find on an animal, the better the sign is that it is not a good beginner animal. I rescued a burton's legless lizard, for example. They only eat other lizards and there's virtually no information regarding the setup for their cages. NOT a beginner animal.





I'm not even going to go into the info on the skink. If you are interested in getting a reptile you need to find good beginner ones.


Good beginner snakes are corns, kings, and milks for example. Some can get quite long depending on the subspecies. They are easier to care for than ball pythons and boas (even though I adore the constrictors).





As for skinks: blue-tongued skinks are the the most common in the pet trade and therefore have the most information on them. They are quite docile too.





My suggestion in these cases always is: research, research, research. You can't overdo it. I know some of these animals look cool but far too many people buy reptiles simply for the ';cool factor'; without realizing what they're getting themselves into. Do some research into the animals I listed. If you aren't interested and still have your heart set on something else, buy books, find breeders, Anything to know what you're about to commit to.





Good luck