What is a good snake to have as a pet (that does not eat mice)?

i was thinking of getting a pet snake but im not sure what to get. if there is a snake that does NOT eat mice where can i get it online.What is a good snake to have as a pet (that does not eat mice)?
Most insect-eating or worm eating snakes are not often available, although you might find them on kingsnake.com classifieds from time to time, under ';other snakes';. They will likely be wild caught animals. These would include rough green, smooth green, shovel nose,ring necks, dekays(also called brown) snakes, and ground snakes. Most of these are not good beginner snakes, and do not make good pets. Your best bet would be rough or smooth green snakes, but do plenty of research first. They are not known to live long lives in captivity, but are easier to care for than the other small species I listed. They would likely be found on the kingsnake classifieds during spring and summer. They are cheap.


-Here's an add for some right now; http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?c鈥?/a>


As for fish eaters, garter snakes and ribbon snakes are often purchased by people that do not want to deal with rodents, unfortunately for them, if they do reseach they will find that most garter snake breeders and serious hobbyists do feed rodents as part of the diet to garters and ribbons.


You could possibly feed a garter or ribbon a diet soley of fish, but need to feed them the right fish. No feeder goldfish- they will cause health problems. For more info, go to http://www.thamnophis.com/


Water snakes fall into the same catagory as garters(as far as care), but are not a good beginner animal. They are more difficult to maintain for long times, and tend to bemore aggressive- and have rather large teeth.





There are also a number of snakes that eat lizards, but if you dont want to deal with mice, I would imagine you wouldnt want to have to feed lizards either.





For a beginner in keeping snakes, my honest recommendation is to get over the problem with mice, because most all of the best starter snakes require mice. Even garters are not the best starter snake, they just tend to be thought of that way because they are cheap in price.


Mice can be purchased frozen, and then thawed out for the snake, so you dont have to deal with live mice. Just make sure the snake you get is verified to be accepting previously frozen mice.


By the way, ';garden'; snakes are garter snakes, people just get the name wrong.What is a good snake to have as a pet (that does not eat mice)?
There are snake species that eat frogs but that will get very expensive. The above poster is talking about a Garder snake, and they are frog eaters. May i ask why you dont want a snake that eats mice?
In captivity, GARTER %26amp; RIBBON SNAKES generally eat fish, especially goldfish, guppies, and minnows.





ROUGH GREEN snakes also like insects such as crickets





RING NECK SNAKES like earthworms and such
Garter snake


Garden snake


Ribbon Snake


if you want a challenge then,


Smooth/Rough green snake


Almost any Water snake



Dwarf albino milk snake are a good choice and there so small that they only eat about 1 cricket a day.
How about Garter snakes? They eat crickets and fish. Well, I hope you get to find a new snake.
Where do you live? There may be insect-eating snakes available right in your backyard.
sorry dude they ALL eat some kind of rodent.
Mabye a garden snake?
Why does it matter if it eats mice or not?
umm sorry but theirs no snake that doesnt eat mice