Quote Originally Posted by Steveo View Post
I also prefer to separate for feeding, but it's mostly for my benefit - I don't have to watch for food fights, I'll know how much they ate, and I use the opportunity to do some cleaning. I also have some snakes who take their sweet time deciding if they're going to eat or not, so rather than watch for an hour I just check on them periodically. I also feed my largest snake last - sometimes she gets so many leftovers from the others that I don't need to set aside any food for her.
It's not a garter, but I tend to do this with my Kingsnake (Splendida, Desert) as it will eat anything the others will and has a brilliant feeding response.