Forum: Husbandry

Well, most of my easterns are hitting sexual maturity right now, and within the past few weeks I've noticed a significant drop in their food...

My garter snake has been living without a light do u think i should give it a basking light? and his main diet is fish and sometimes one pinkie for a...

Well, I offered my WC garters a thawed pinky today. The first response was a defensive strike, followed by another, followed by another. I'm thinking...

hi, i have a baby albino molurus... i fed her 4 small mice on sun, and i fed him another 4 o wed... is it too much? because she kept asking 4 more.....

Is it safe for garters? I know it's a saltwater fish, so are there any special prep things I should do if I can use it?

A couple of weeks ago i was worried about my little uns not eating. Got some good advice. they had been eating fine before coming here and that is...

I picked up my first garter yesterday from a local pet store. i live in middle tennessee so i was a little hesitant to buy a garter snake since you...

This may be a silly question but I'm going to ask it just to make sure. I know that I can have more then one garter in a cage but can I have...

Hey Im currently feeding my 9inch chequered garter snake on Lance fish. How big will the snake need to be before it can handle a pinkie? I feel...

Hi im new here and very excited about getting a garter but I have some questions to ask, if you don't mind. 1. Is it better to feed the snakes live...

Just thought of something. Garter snakes are often found sunning themselves which means that they are absorbing a lot of UVB rays from the sun. I...

I keep reading about feeding garter snakes fish fillet or pinkies instead of minnows or other live food, but how do you go about getting them to...

Hi all, I've had my garter snake for about 5 months, he was either a baby or a "teen" when I bought him, about 12 inches. For the past 2...

I have a large amount of certain insects in my yard in the summer. I just learned that garter snakes like slugs a lot. Will they eat the following...

As some of you may have read, I acquired a pair of 'red-phase' T. s. pickeringii last September from a European breeder. I was never happy with the...

Oh well ... I was looking at our ratsnake today and found a mixture of mitey thingies seeking to establish themselves :mad: little buggers. So, of...

Hi I ricently purchased one of these, and I have a few questions about him. He's only about 6 inches long, so I'm not sure how big of a container...

OK, so I've got the 286 litre terrarium, and there are 2 more parietalises on their way. These are stil young, so the female will have to wait a...

I've been using reptocal for a while now and remembered that for lizards you can use crushed egg shell for nutrients and calcium. If you were to...

Well, I finally got brave enough to post this. Watching it still makes me sick.:(:(:( YouTube - Thiamin deficiency