New Baby Help!
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My mom doesnt want anything that has to eat warm and fuzzies. The only reason shes letting me keep this snake is because my last garter ate fish and worms. I would love to get a corn snake. Could a corn snake live in a 20 gallon long all its life? If i buy its food every week, she might let me get one.
google it up man
you can still get garter snakes but leave the wild ones in the wild and go for a captive bred
just do a lot of research I find out what you think is best for you
you can still get garter snakes but leave the wild ones in the wild and go for a captive bred
just do a lot of research I find out what you think is best for you
Actualy feeding a garter snake golfish or any cyprinid like rosy reds is really bad because of tyaminase poisoning, wich is one of the leading cases of garter snake deaths in captivity, a shame considering how easy its to avoid.
Now your snaker will acept a wide variety of foods including slugs, earthworms, mosquitofish, gut loaded guppies and even small "burgers" of beef and chicken. Your feeding of guppys was correct all along
Now your snaker will acept a wide variety of foods including slugs, earthworms, mosquitofish, gut loaded guppies and even small "burgers" of beef and chicken. Your feeding of guppys was correct all along
That might have been why my last garter snake died, all she would eat was rosy reds and a few night crawlers. I will try slugs and some wild crickets, and if he still isnt eating tomorrow night, I'll let him go. I was thinking about getting an amazon tree boa. I have done a ton of research for like a year, and i am going to the midwest reptile show on the 30th, they sell them for $15 for a baby garden phase. Could an amazon tree boa live in an exotera 18"x12"x12"? I have heard they can live in shoeboxes even as adults, because they are extremely inactive.
I'm trying that as we speak, I got him to bite an earthworm earlier. The second he smelled it he whent straight for it, which is odd, because yesterday he completely ignored worms. He doesnt like them very much any more, which is frustrating because i thought he was finally going to eat
. Oh well, i'll try again tomorrow.
. Oh well, i'll try again tomorrow.Well, I walked in and saw him fishing for the first time. He didnt catch anything so i added a few more guppies to up the odds. I think he got hungry enough and started figureing what is and what isn't food. He is actually a lot smarter than most garters i have seen, he has already learned that i am no threat to him. It's kind of wierd the way he comes out and just stares at me
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.Use very shallow water and small guppys. You can also and this probably will be more helpfull, if you kill a guppie, get a long sharp stick, put the guppie on the tip and wringle it on front of your snakebass_cats;3350111; said:Well, I walked in and saw him fishing for the first time. He didnt catch anything so i added a few more guppies to up the odds. I think he got hungry enough and started figureing what is and what isn't food. He is actually a lot smarter than most garters i have seen, he has already learned that i am no threat to him. It's kind of wierd the way he comes out and just stares at me
After the first time i saw him fish, there have been missing guppies. I found a dead one in the substrate that had jumped out, but i havent seen him fishing since the first time. I'm pretty sure hes eating now, so i'm just going to keep refilling his bowl with guppies when it starts getting low. Thanks for all your help.
