Guess what? Taking care of a bunch of baby garters is an interesting and frustrating task, but I think it will get easier from now on. As far as I can tell all of my remaining babies are eating, and most are eating both minnow and worm parts. Lost a few from my two gravid Maritimes, some (5) to the tape (stupidity on my part), and 6 more just died. Don’t know why, but they were pretty small to begin with, seems the larger ones did the best. Guess some are just doomed from the start. The ones that I was really worried about were the babies from Chloe (formally green girl), they were really tiny (mom was a small snake) and skinny less than 1 ½ mm thick. Had 9 and lost 2, but they have all eaten now, even the tiniest one. Whew! This has been quite an experience with a very steep learning curve. Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge.