I Am Sooooo Mad!!!!

[abcat1993]

My snake was eating a worm after being in my care for about a week with no succesful feedings, and it just HAD to drag it over the aspen and get wood chips stuck to it. F@$#%!#* snake! Agghhhh why will it only feed in it's cage?

[abcat1993]

my snake just ate. oops

[Thamnophis]

Garter snakes often drag their food through the soil.
This is not alwasy bad, but when you want to avoid it, place a large, flat stone in the terrarium (by preference in a corner) and place your fooddish on this stone, also as much as possible in the corner. This often helps.

How does aspen look? You have a picture of it?

[abcat1993]

this is aspen bedding that it is on

[jakob lejbølle]

wow thats just splinters, i would not use that kind of matrial in my terrarium, i would worry that my snake's could die if they eat it.

i use only cocopeat (i think it's called) in my terrariums, it is a brown substans made from coconuts, just like this Bucotec

i never had any problems with it, in denmark you can buy it in most petstores, and i think it's the same in usa.
they are like bricks, and then you just add water, and you will get the best terrariumsoile ever

sorry for my bad english, hope you understand

[abcat1993]

I don't know why they would eat it and not coconut shavings though. They can't digest coconuts any more than a piece of aspen. I've also had plenty of people tell me to use aspen. Petco uses that brown stuff and half their garters are dead (they also feed them crickets). Also it sounds harder to bury into; aspen = fluffy

[abcat1993]

Ooops. and the stuff you talked about doesn't sound very easy to bury in (but i guess if they do it in dirt they could). and Aspen is very cheap, about 1-3 $ depending on where and how much you get it

[jakob lejbølle]

cocopeat is very easy for the snakes to bury them self in, so thats not a
problem, when the cocopeat brick has been soaken in water for a wile, it
will loosen up.
the snakes can't digest it, thats true, as you said youself, but it's easy to
for the snake to pass through there body, it's much smaller than the
aspen.
and when you feed your snake in it's terrarium, the ground material will
stick to the fish/worm or what ever you feed the snake, like you said,
thats why i think cocopeat is better.

i always feed my snakes in a clean plastic box, so i dont have the problem
you have, you just have to train your snake

i have just got a big block of cocopeat for about 13 dollas, there is about 70liters of cocopeat in it

[abcat1993]

Maybe it is a better deal then. I have seen those bricks though at Petco. Oh well, aspen is fine for right now.
PS: by the way, I now feed it in a separate container (those little plastic ones with the handles that you keep crickets in

[abcat1993]

If you use potting soil don't you have to cook it to kill everything first? (maybe not just for the snake, I don't want more insects in my house!)