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Posted by chrish on January 22, 2003 at 12:03:39:
In Reply to: please help! green snake still not eating posted by snakebait on January 22, 2003 at 00:42:44:
First of all, make sure your temperature setup is correct (I also recommend you buy the book Glenn suggests). That is usually the culprit in cases of snakes not eating.
Then I would suggest crickets. I once kept a Rough Green snake for 5 years in captivity feeding it nothing but crickets (with some occasional dusting with vitamin powder). It wouldn't eat any of the other things I offered it (hornworms, waxworms, etc).
You could also slow the crickets down for it by carefully clipping off the distal part of their hindlimbs so they can't jump. That would make them easier to catch.
I rarely saw my Green Snake eat. I would put crickets in weekly and they would be gone in a day or two (I always kept a piece of rodent chow in the cage so the crickets would have something to eat and a stone in the water bowl so that the crickets couldn't get in there and drown).
