Forum: Husbandry

Ok my garter was on f/t fuzzies but for some reason I'm having a hard time finding them for a decent price. So I've switched to night crawlers. I was...

So, my Cali Red arrived today and is getting settled in. However I ran into an unexpected problem: None of the stores in my neighborhood carry...

Hello! So, I have a wild caught garter. (I didn't catch it, it was given to me, and I've been told that I shouldn't release it back into the...

Remember when I found some "smelt" at my grocery store and was bummed when you guys said they contained thiaminase? Turns out, the "smelt" they have...

So I'm finally making the move on getting a garter, and have a terrarium set up. Right now the bioactives are cycling in advance of getting the...

How similarly sized do two snakes need to be before you cohabitate them? My erythristic flame eastern is a year old and my radix is about six...

Hi, he shed on January 1st 2019 and I noticed yesterday his eyes were foggy again. Is it too soon for another shed? Is he just growing? I was feeding...

Any advice on how to get a skittish, wild-caught garter over to frozen pinkies? Had him for about five months, just started handling a few times a...

Hello, I have two gorgeous and notoriously skittish wandering garter snakes that were both wild-caught within months of each other. One of them is...

Hey All, Should I keep both my basking lights and UTHs on a rheostat? Or, just keep the UTHs on the rheostat and plug the basking lights into a...

​on Jan 1st, 2019 I noticed his eyes were a bit foggy and he seemed dry. He wouldn't come out of his cave for anything, food, water or to...

Hello!!!! So I just got a new garter, he is an albino checkered garter snake and Im pretty sure he was born in July. So when i was younger I had a...

Hey, I have 4 baby garters, 2 Pugets, 1 San Fran, and 1 Cali Red Sided. Everyone was doing great when they got here, and the first two feeding...

Hi, I just noticed this today. It had been a while since I last handled him, so I don't know how long it's been this way. It looks like damaged...

So if figured i make a new thread cause im not getting any reply's in my old ones... So yep today had another snake die all sudden for no...

So my decay snake she had babies as i said in my older snake theadifigured i make a new thread for this issue. I took them out from the mother the...

Hi all, I've been big into caring for animals since I was a kid, but unfortunately haven't had the chance to do so in a long time - college...

I have so many questions. Like Why is my guy chilling in his water bowl all night long after eating. What type of lights. Do they need lights day and...

So on Friday night we found a snake on the front of our street.. At first we thought it was dead cause it had deep cuts which pretty much with turn...

So I caught this northwestern garter snake a few days ago, and I decided I would try to keep it. Right now he is in a 20 gallon tank with aspen...