Forum: Husbandry

OK, I've got a few questions. 1.How often should my garter be eating? She ate 4 minnows, a day after we brought her home. I tried a pinkie...

Hey, My buddy keeps a buncha Male rats as pets, they got rid of the female bc they were constantly trying to impbreed... point being he said that...

Hiya! We have a checkered garter, as of now we are feeding him a pinky every other day and he has been quite happy with this. However, just...

I have an issue with my three babies. One of them (Checkers) is eating very poorly in comparison to his siblings. He sometimes goes nearly two...

I may have found the killer of my easterns... Low humidity. I've noticed in the past that some species faired better than others in the outdoor pen....

Let's face it everyone: we've all been hit very hard by health issues this winter. I think this thread should be a place to report the mortalities,...

I was thinking.For the people who go herping for garters.I would be really interested in knowing the temps of basking females In the 3-4 months after...

Has anybody tried feeding their garters slugs? I'm especially interested in testing Limax cinereoniger and Arion lusitanicus (Spanish slug), but...

well today i checked in on the girls in the fridge and decided 2 months is long enough of a brumation (i missed them too much) so i took them out and...

Well, it's not Roids. It must be genetics. The first picture is a group(all similar size) of 9 month old radixs. The second photo is from a group of...

This was my little garter who just really wouldn't eat much...could only get her to eat worms and she would only eat a couple. Then she quit...had...

James and Ernestine seemed to go off feed just when the dry winter air hit. I tried misting the tank, and the humidity wouldn't go above 20-30%...

Is this normal? Slithers rubs her face on her climbing rock after eating every time. I first noticed it after i began feeding pinkies and she has...

On the way home from a farm market we swung by one of those Ma and Pa pet stores way out in the boondocks. lol They were selling wax worms, nice fat...

Okay, I know about Thiaminase. As a treat to my Radixs they get some Fathead minnows once in a great while(once every couple a months). They...

I have lost a lot of snakes recently. I put it down to stress on some as i had moved my babies around a bit and some were strugling shedding. I put...

I always buy bags frozen salmon or tilapia filets for my snakes. The problem is that they are really hard to cut when theyre frozen. It would be a...

I had to buy a heating pad with my snake. This time of year does he need it more or not at all?? It sticks to the bottom of his tank and his hidebox...

My only garter Jake, which you'll identified as eastern (who somehow wound up in my care in LA) hasn't eaten in several weeks. Usual diet had been...

last night I decided to try feeding my sanfransisco garters pinkies.I defrosted a few strips of sand eel and boiled them to destroy the...