Rush's Thamily!!

[Albert Clark]

Oh, ok. Got it Steve. Thank you for the clarification. Just trying to allay the fears of Rush about the physical differences of her species. Explaining how body mass and physical , genetic makeup pertains to the various species. Thanks .

[Rushthezeppelin]

Just to clear things up I'm a guy...regardless thanks for clearing things up, I figured it was a case of much ado about nothing.

[Albert Clark]

Just to clear things up I'm a guy...regardless thanks for clearing things up, I figured it was a case of much ado about nothing.

Yep, got it! Now I know. Guess you never stop learning. Thanks for making me aware. Oh and on a side note I reached out to Kevin about the mosquito larvae and he is at the Daytona repticon and couldn't answer my questions at this time. Keep you posted.

[Albert Clark]

Rush, I just got word that I was wrong about mosquito larvae and it's called mosquito fish and the other food used by the breeder is soldier fly larvae! Not mosquito larvae at all. The mosquito fish are a small mosquito larvae eating fish used in ponds and backyard water gardens. The soldier fly larvae aka" Phoenix worms" are used in manure management, and bioconversion of organic waste material. Larvae are sold as feeders of herptiles and tropical fish. They store high levels of calcium for future pupation which is beneficial to herptiles. The larval stage is a plump, flattened organism. They are in the kingdom of animalia but fall in the class of insecta. Didn't find anything on chitin containing. Sorry for the mixup on my part!

[liveunderoath]

I have used mosquito fish to feed northern water snakes. They look pretty much like ugly grey guppies.
They are also very easy to breed just like guppies.

[d_virginiana]

In regards to different garters being built differently, you can see that in the same species from different locales too. There was a thread on that several years back, but apparently male easterns from southern locales tend to keep the bobble-head look (comparatively large eyes and a large head compared to a pretty thin neck) into adulthood where it's not nearly as noticeable in easterns from other parts of the country. Just thought that was interesting.

My blacknecks are built differently than my easterns too. Unless you look at one and think something is off, they're probably not overweight enough to cause problems.

[Rushthezeppelin]

Ya I've used mosquitofish for Delilah before, might need to do that to get the other 3 girls on fish. I tried putting some tilapia in for em and they turned their noses up. Even scented it with worms and they just picked out the few worm bits and left the fish lol. I figure some live fish might entice em to get the taste of fish.

[liveunderoath]

Ya I've used mosquitofish for Delilah before, might need to do that to get the other 3 girls on fish. I tried putting some tilapia in for em and they turned their noses up. Even scented it with worms and they just picked out the few worm bits and left the fish lol. I figure some live fish might entice em to get the taste of fish.

I'm sure they will definitely go for the mosquito fish.

[guidofatherof5]

Would you post up a photo of Delilah and the radix so we can get a relative girth comparison?

[Albert Clark]

I was looking for info on the parasite loads of retail sold mosquito fish to see if it compares to that of rosy reds. I would think it's better to raise your own to be safe. The soldier fly larvae sounds interesting too. I guess eventually I will consider it if I have a issue with the black necks not taking pinky parts scented or unscented.