Quote Originally Posted by infernalis View Post
Isn't this the time of year that they are supposed to do the opposite?
Yes, it is.

Every year, it's the same thing. As they come out of brumation, they eat like there's no tomorrow, until the first heat wave, when everybody stops eating at the same time (except the newborns and one female wandering garter that never skips a meal). The next couple of months will be spent trying to get them to eat again. The males and the tetrataenia will come around in about a month, but the smaller female vagrans (yes, this is the main reason she's smaller than her sister) will start to only sporadically take mice until the start of brumation.

Either they're expecting to aestivate, or to switch to a food type that isn't mice, fish, earthworms or slugs. Too bad you can't get frozen frogs from the pet store.