Species ID: solid green "ribbon snake"

[GartersRock]

So handsome!! I will never tire of seeing him.

[infernalis]

He's been cranky lately, and has started taking strikes at my hands.

Once I have him, he chills out, The initial opening of the cage sets him off for some reason, maybe it's mating time in the rain forest?

Just the other day, as soon as I moved the glass out of the way, he shot out like a rocket and was all the way to the other side of the room before I could blink.

[drache]

Just the other day, as soon as I moved the glass out of the way, he shot out like a rocket and was all the way to the other side of the room before I could blink.

lovely
that's how Whizzy got got her name

[Loren]

They are extremely hard to keep in captivity.

Gertie, that just means we havent figured out the (probably) easy modifications we need to do to their captive care to make them thrive.
Just takes some trial and error, time, and patience.

But I have my hands full with my collection as is.

[Stefan-A]

Just takes some trial and error, time, and patience.

"Study and replicate" might generate better results.

[Loren]

Ok. Correction, using Stefan's input.

Gertie, that just means we havent figured out the (probably) easy modifications needed for them to thrive in captivity, best accomplished using a "Study and replicate" method.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

green snakes are awesome... but as everyone else here has said... they seldom make it in captivity. To get that snake to eat, they NEED to put it into its OWN cage, with a good amount of space and HEAVY vegetation. It should not matter as much if the cage is tall or long as long as there is heavy, heavy vegetation and stuff to climb and hide in. You also would want to mist inside once or twice a day because many arboreal snakes drink dew droplets off of leaves or drink droplets when it rains... I found green snakes do not take to water dishes like other snakes will. if its the only source of water they will make do, but it's not a good idea to force snakes to make do.