I have three. They are not easy snakes. They are nervous. Display snakes only. If you leave them alone and don't stress them they are easy enough. In my experience, if you stress them even a little bit they go off food for a month.

 

Thanks for the info. Yes it would be very much a display snake, with the only disturbance being to change water, feed and spot clean.

 

They are fantastic snakes. Incredibly beautiful. Hard to come by though. CPR get them from time to time although they seem to be getting more any more expensive.

I hope to have some available soon.

 

CPR have them now in stock :2thumb:

 

If you man Crystal pallace Reptiles, Can't find anything listed in their current price list for Gonyosoma prasinum

Have you got a linky ?

 

Green Trinket Ratsnake Elaphe (Rhadinophis) prasinus CB15 £195.00

https://www.facebook.com/download/preview/931955796890412

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Ed, yeah I noticed that, but isn't that a different snake to Gonyosoma prasinum

 

its been reclassified as Rhadinophis prasinus, it shares the genus with frenatus.

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Thanks for the clarification... £195 for a hatchling... better start saving now !

 

I think Thrasops might keep these.

 

Just done a search and dropped him a PM - Thanks for the suggestion

 

green bush snake.

 

green bush snake.

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These are the ones I prefer and remember from the cover from a well read snake book :2thumb:

 

heres one of my rein rat snakes, a chap had a table with a pair hatchlings of these at the last Donny show.

 

this is the colour of one of my rein rat snakes as a hatchling.

 

The book everybody is referring to is "A Monograph of the Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Elaphe FITZINGER" by Klaus Dieter-Schulz... one of the most legendary snake books ever written - and one of the best.

Yes, I keep both species of Rhadinophis. Personally I find R. prasinus to be a more reliable captive than R. frenatus (although as I have had wild as well as CB specimens of the latter this may be part of the reason, as all my R. prasinus are CB).

Captive bred animals are a doddle, once they are feeding. The real problem with this species is that they occur over varied altitudes throughout their range; some live above 900 metres in very humid, cool regions, others in almost tropical regions below 600 metres. As such, knowing the location the animals were sourced from is paramount to acclimatising them (CB animals are obviously easier in this respect).

As such, I find it best to provide a relatively cool environment (no more than 25c) which also offers a localised basking spot from a low wattage spotlight (40W is fine). I feel the best enclosures for this species are Exo Terras or similar, which allow decent humidity but also plenty of ventilation and overhead heating from outside the enclosure with a spotlight and UV; this gives them a choice of temperatures to inhabit and also a choice of humidity (live plants are also very much recommended as they provide localised humidity and the snakes seem to love coiling up in them).

I find R. prasinus to prefer smaller prey animals and only one of mine will take mice over the size of fuzzies. Once they have passed the intial hatchling stage they tend to feed fairly well although it seems to go about 50:50 whether they become very calm, docile snakes or extremely snappy and defensive.

Settled specimens are easy to keep this way, but when you first get them it requires observation and understanding of the snake's behaviour to get an idea of what is "doing it" for them temperature and humidity-wise.

 

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Thanks for the info and pictures, cracking images.

 

How weird. It's vanished for me too.