Baby care?

[brain]

Lucky you.
I'll look into pinkies thanks

Check out Big Cheese Rodent Factory for pinks also.

Great shipping and reasonable in pricing.

[RedSidedSPR]

Will do.

[RedSidedSPR]

So should I feed him the 2 guppies today out of his water bowl, or in a separate container?? I'm using aspen, and that isn't safe to swallow is it?

[BLUESIRTALIS]

You can feed him out of his bowl if you want as long as you watch him eat to make sure he don't ingest any bedding. The only problem is if he will eat in front of you. I would put a couple of guppies in a small delicup with just a tiny drop of water and put the snake in with them and he should eat just fine.

[infernalis]

So should I feed him the 2 guppies today out of his water bowl, or in a separate container?? I'm using aspen, and that isn't safe to swallow is it?

I was once told that baby snakes in particular are susceptible to internal punctures from wood slivers.

seems reasonable enough.

Why risk it. almost all my snakes came from Scott and all of them feed in poly boxes just fine.

[RedSidedSPR]

At the moment I don't have any deli cups or anything related, but I'll find something

Heck, that 2 gallon tank will work right? If I don't use it for guppies...

[BLUESIRTALIS]

An empty tank should work just fine.

[RdubSnider]

If you have any old Tupperware you could punch a few holes and that would b perfect. I've gotten alot of snakes from Scott and rest assure they always eat. Let us know if the most popular feeding tricks work for you. There's many more to try but cupping in a cabinet should work Just fine. I would say also to handle him at a minimum until he takes off on eating

[ConcinusMan]

dollar store shoeboxes or rubbermaid containers work just fine. Drill holes in actual Tupperware? I don't think so!

[infernalis]

Why would anyone worry about air holes on a feed box???

The air requirements of a baby garter will not even come close to anything you need to worry about during a feeding.

You would have to leave the poor thing in a feed box that was sealed with gaskets for days before it would even notice....even longer to suffocate.

For a wee baby, the air holes could provide somewhat of an escape risk.