Forum: Husbandry

My son found a garter snake on the road on his way home from school about 10 days ago. It had an injured eye. There was blood all around the eye. ...

I got Lucifer on August 16. Only way I found out she was a female is when she had a surprise litter of 20. Right now she is about 2ft 2in. She is...

just had my first failure to thrive a little one from the dozen born to the albino checkered, from which char's binky will get her future mate. this...

Sorry its been a while since the last post. Everyone can stop worrying now. I haven't been on here for a while since giving up the babies. As much as...

I was wondering is it possible to cremate a baby garter snake or would he be too small? He was about 2in maybe longer and he was like a cm wide I...

Greetings, all fellow lovers of garters and animals alike! It could be my first brumating experience, here in warm (relatively) Rome, but my son...

Earlier my garter snake Lucifer was resting and then out of nowhere she started choking or something or sounded like gagging or coughing. She kept...

Those of you that breed...how old is your oldest female that is still breeding (or how old was the mother of your oldest litter)? Reason for asking...

My Blue-Striped-Garter snake went into shedding mode about 8 days ago and then his eyes became clear, and the same thing happened again.:confused:...

I was wondering does anyone know where you can find mice, nightcrawlers, guppies, anything free? If not its okay. I don't think I can give them...

Would anyone want to make a list of food that their garter snakes eat? It would help a lot so I can know what different kinds of food to try to feed...

I have about 2 or 3 if not more baby garter snakes. One already has a set of blue eyes and the others are ready to shed but the skin always starts to...

A friend of mine recently obtained several Oregon Red Spotted Garters or something like that and was asking if I was interested in taking one. I'm...

I was wondering when you are feeding pieces of fish fillet to baby garter snakes is there a certain amount that you need to feed them or can you give...

My couple of garters has been with us for three weeks, now, and I waited some days before giving them their first meal; I was hunting for...

I was wondering what the best way would be to get my wild caught baby garters used to me. They're fine with moving around until I open their cage or...

Right now Marley's happy with a nightcrawler cut up every other day, but I'm not sure when to start her on pinkie mice or pinkie parts (cutting them...

I dont know why this happens and a lot of times we dont kow the reasonings but I thought that maybe we can have a thread in rememberance of our...

My sons garter gave birth to 12 healthy babies a couple of days ago. . . I have since spent a lot of time trying to figure out what to feed them....

I was outside just a few minutes ago and I found a huge slug, a medium slug and a tiny one. I know Ive heard in different threads that it ok to feed...