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Originally Posted by wizsel

hi just got a new green tree snake curious as how to best look after him should i get a humidifier? can any one tell me the best temp to keep him at? how should his enclosure look? and how do i breed them? thanks

My first advice is to look up Green tree snake, common tree snake and GTS (all the same thing) in the search function on this site, and read them all, because there are many threads that talk about this snake and how best to care for it. This is where I began my education into this snake too.

Make sure you give a little hidey hole for the snake to hide in, and put some sticks or branches in the container,as they have a thing for climbing....obviously (GTS).

Temp wise about 28 degrees is preferable.

A pool of water too (small one it can lay in if it needs to) also serving as the water container.

I have a bed of sand with schedded newspaper on the bottom half of the enclosure, and my container for him to hide in is also filled with schredded newsaper not packed in but I do fill it up. My one hides there most of the time, and any craps it has seem to stick to and absorb into the newspaper, making my monthy clean ups easy.

Also you will notice them shedding their skin when their eyes look a little frosted, or like a catarac in grannys eye.
This is the first sign that it will molt within 2 weeks, try to resist playing with the snake in this 2 week window, because they cant see too well, they may be a little more agro to movement.

I also find playing with it alot makes for a great temperment. (mine was and still is young tho)
Usually I like to do this about 2 times a week. I usually have it watching tv with me and my wife, on my lap, or curled into my hands and fingers, letting it slide over us as it sees fit..................................
Keep an eye on it if you do this, they can get into small spots, lickety split. They can also move fastish, so unlike a python wont stay put, and can cover alot of distance in a minute.........and at 200 bucks thay are buggers to get replaced.

Hope this helps.