Homemade garter food.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

I found a great website about garter husbandry and this bloke has a great idea,a complete diet for his snakes here's his recipe Alan's Garter Snakes - Maintenance of Garter Snakes (http://www.gartersnake.co.uk/maintenance.htm#Home-made) garter snake food

[chris-uk]

I'd read this recipe on Alan's site before, and wasn't convinced that I'd want to feed my snakes jellified, liquidised fish. Admitedly I'm still at a point where I can freeze fish and cut enough of it up while it's still frozen to feed my snakes. I don't think there's anything nutritionally wrong with that garter food recipe, but my gut feeling is that solid food is what snakes have evolved to digest and I'll stick as close as practical to that.

Also worth pointing out that Alan's website hasn't been updated for quite some time, you'll notice that under the homemade recipe he also talks about using catfood - which is something that I'm sure he doesn't do now and not many people would consider a good thing (PinJohn told me that it was possibly him that started garter keepers in the UK feeding catfood, which he discussed with Alan a few years ago and others picked it up from Alan's website).

[Invisible Snake]

Yeah that site hasn't been updated in years..

[-MARWOLAETH-]

Fair enough.

[Eight]

I will admit that I was also looking at the home made food for garters from this site, and hadn't realised that the site was so out of date. I can't see the need for it though as I'm happy just freezing my fish.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

I would think that it could be beneficial to snakes with injuries like Steve's concinnus because he had trouble passing solid food down past where his injury was.

[guidofatherof5]

I would think that it could be beneficial to snakes with injuries like Steve's concinnus because he had trouble passing solid food down past where his injury was.

I think you are right in that respect.

[kimbosaur]

I remember reading an old post saying there were side effects from the gelatin in the long term. Let me see if I can find it.

EDIT:


Many times I saw like gelatin bean stuck in my garter snake cloaca ,the snake was unable to defecate so I pull the plug out and after the snake was fine....


Other threads:
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/8776-fish-jello.html
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/husbandry/3208-trout-mixture.html
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/4881-fish-gelatin-total-success.html

[guidofatherof5]

Good post Kimberly.
Working that search function.:D