bkhuff1s
06-04-2009, 10:17 AM
I've had my Puget Garter Snakes for almost a year now. When I first got them the male refused to eat period, until I gave live baby mouse to him. Then I got him on live fish, which I had to toss into his container without water to get him to 'find' them, with a thawed baby mouse. Of which i've been doing ever since. The local pet show decided to raise prices of baby mice from 1 dollar to 2 sky rocketing feeding costs. I had been feeding my female telopia fish, but got salmon this time. After tossing in a few pieces into her water bowl, without removing the male, he'd never shown the least bit of interest in fish chunks. The female was carrying her 'prize' around like a dog bone and the male came out of his hide and was just hanging around the female (normal response) and then he kept trying to get near her head and then out of no where lunged at the food she was carrying around and proceeded to have a tug of war contest. :eek: I was smart enought to see that this could have dire consequences so I pulled him out and into his feeding tub, and then quickly refused to eat the salmon chunks I gave him....:confused:
After about a 1/2 hour I finally got him to attack the chunks.... So after about a year of trying he's finally decided he does infact like fish chunks which was the first thing I ever tried to feed him.... I wish they had an eye roll smiley...
After about a 1/2 hour I finally got him to attack the chunks.... So after about a year of trying he's finally decided he does infact like fish chunks which was the first thing I ever tried to feed him.... I wish they had an eye roll smiley...