Forum: Husbandry

I have a pretty disgusting idea for feeding garters but I am wondering if it might work. Let say you took a bunch of healthy food (mice,...

I know that you can feed garters steak, (at least I hope so:p) but how about ground beef? I've heard some pretty nasty things about ground beef (I...

When I showed photos of my new viv to a friend, he told me not to add lights as it could cause blindness to the snakes. As the light source would be...

Hey there, it's been quite a while since I posted. I was lucky enough to get my little albino garter to eat and grow well. However the last few...

.....about Dekay's snakes (storeria dekayi). I am most graciously being given one, (YAY!!):):) but first I must research more! Found most of the...

:confused:I'm new to owning a garter snake we got him/her from a pet store that had hime/her for adoption. My problem is it wont eat we have him/her...

Well...there you go, ok take it easy on me, I'm not an expert :o neither my grilfriend who took the videos, so maybe its a little bit blurry on the...

Pics??????

ok let me start by saying i have two rather large garter snakes,,,around 3ft being the smallest and 3 1/2 being the bigger one,,,well i have them in...

Some time ago, my parietalis (female) started producing red gelly-like feces (or so I thought). Yesterday, on a german site, I saw exactly the same...

Mainly my snakies' diet is pinky mice, and I'll be trying out fuzzy mice in a few weeks to see if she'll eat them too. But she LOVES salamanders!...

We have the two babies (born end of may), one puget & one red-sided, and they were both the same size when they arrived about two and a half weeks...

Hello all .... Spartikus has started his shed. Problem is he woun't eat I have had him for about 5 days now, I have tried earth worms, guppies and...

Hey my Snakes haven't eaten for a week and a half, are they getting ready to burmate, if so tell me how to burmate them, if not please give me some...

Yea, checked out my boi today, and his eyes are glazed with a light hazy blue, is he just getting ready to shed??? his scales are starting to look...

Ok, I started my snake out on worms then about 2 weeks after that i switched to small fish- well it's been a lil over a week and he hasn't TOUCHED a...

One of my baby radix shed her tail twice. Why has this happen?

Anyone know a source for Garter Grub, which I believe, is a processed food for garter snakes. I've checked on line and it appears to be mostly sold...

Hey guys just want to catch you up. Radix female adult. Now eating fuzzies. But im moving her up to adults. Maritimes, still on rosies. Radix...

Not me... My snake- ever since my buddy "adopted" the female i caught with the male, I kinda wanted another one- but it's been Absolute hell for...