What Type of Worms Do You Recommend?

[Jack Neary]

and please also advise your suggestions of on-line dealers to order the preferred/best worm type for Garters...
Thanks!
Jack

[Garter_Gertie]

Wal-Mart's Canadian Night Crawlers, cut into small pieces. Night Crawlers have been known to crawl out the back end of a snake, killing the snake.

[Lori P]

You know, mine will not eat night crawlers... they only take the smaller worms I find in the yard!!! Not sure what that's all about. Try it and see what yours prefer, Jack... just no red wigglers.

[infernalis]

Jack, we have been feeding the "Panfish/trout" worms from wal mart for years, no problem.

Most any eathworm except red wigglers will be fine.

[Snake lover 3-25]

i got some "panfish" worms from one of those bait machines...... and they looked like red wigglers..... they had distinct banding..... so i used them for fishing instead of feeding them to my snakes..... do "panfish" worms have banding too???

[Garter_Gertie]

Dekay, you're kidding me, right?

It was the trout/panfish worms I bought first. Jeepers spit it out and would have NOTHING to do with it. I wonder if different companies? So I returned those and got the Wal-Mart Canadian Night Crawlers. These Night Crawlers are distrubuted by DMF Bait Company outta Waterford, Michigan. Hhhuummm... they have a Website. I'll check it out and see about their trout/pan fish worms.

All I know is Jeepers hated the ones I bought originally and had slimey mouth and wouldn't eat them.

Weird.

[Snake lover 3-25]

i think sometimes people label red wigglers as panfish worms....... so just ba very careful....... check for banding

[Garter_Gertie]

Shanley, I did. but *I* couldn't see any.

Look at this! It looks like DMF's trout/panfish worms could be read wigglers! I don't know the latin name for red weigglers:

DMF Bait Panfish / Trout (http://www.dmfbait.com/ProdPanfishTrout.asp)

[Snake lover 3-25]

that's exactly what they looked like!!!!:eek:

[Loren]

Jack, thanks for bringing this up, I had the same question.
Also, what is the actual danger of red wigglers?

[Garter_Gertie]

I don't think there's any danger, per se, but they're somewhat 'toxic' in that the snakes can't stand them. They spit them right out. And sometimes even drool. Kind'a like the equivilent of a garter to a fox. :D

[Stefan-A]

And to a baby, that probably means deadly.

[Loren]

Jack, we have been feeding the "Panfish/trout" worms from wal mart for years, no problem.

Most any eathworm except red wigglers will be fine.

So, I just got some panfish/trout worms from wal-mart (dmf worm co.) and they do have banding. I didnt see the banding until I got home.
So I'm confused now. Wayne, is that the same brand that you have use for years, and are the ones you get banded?

[Aundrea]

I bought some worms off of ebay. I found a few web sites that I might go to but im lost on something. Are red worms the same as red wigglers??? :confused:

BTW Jack Howdy from Cuyahoga Falls OH :D

[zooplan]

I digg nightcrawlers and "normal" earthworms from my garden or field and frequently (when I´m to lazy) buy som "foliage worms" (forest worms?)
from the bait store on the other side of the street.

[drache]

Shanley, I did. but *I* couldn't see any.

Look at this! It looks like DMF's trout/panfish worms could be read wigglers! I don't know the latin name for red weigglers:

DMF Bait Panfish / Trout (http://www.dmfbait.com/ProdPanfishTrout.asp)

these worms are an eisenia species, hence related to red wigglers

I have two or more kinds of earthworms in my backyard
there's the regular fat pink earthworms that my worm eating garters like and there's some that are a darker grayish pink and part of them has the stripes
just recently I found one that dropped its tail

[infernalis]

Ah those fat pink ones, find them all the time, snakies love em;)

[drache]

yup
I'm thinking of getting another 500 and dumping them on my compost - just to give them the upper hand
they like it cooler though and generally do the deep earth thing around the compost
they also like shady spots with dense leaf litter and I provide them with that in a spot near the compost and another spot
I've never needed to try it, but I bet I could dig those up in winter