Vitamin B1 Deficiency

[tayler123]

Hi all 3 of my garters have this and it's getting bad. What can I do to save them?I know a vet can inject the vitamin but I don't have the money right now for that.
I need to know a way or a type of food that can recover them.

I got them off a suppose good local breeder but turn out to be worng.
I switch over their diets to worms,crickets and salmon.

I'm hoping somebody can give me detail information on where can I buy the iteams and such.


thankyou!

[Stefan-A]

I'm sorry to hear about your snakes. To my knowledge, there's no home made solution to it. Even the injection might not do a whole lot of good.

[ssssnakeluvr]

don't feed crickets, they can't digest them.....not part of their normal diet

[gregmonsta]

If you can't afford a vet you should really consider finding someone who can pay for the treatment or giving them to a local reptile rescue centre. Vitamin injection followed by accurate aftercare and regular monitoring of vitamin supplements is the only thing that may cure this problem and has to administered as soon as possible. You need a vet to establish how far gone the deficiency is and how much vitamin supplementation is required.
I would raise this with the breeder too if you can ascertain that it was definately his fault and demand a refund/or that he pay the vet treatment and make as many people as possible aware of the quality of the snakes you bought from this person.

As Don just mentioned too - crickets are not suitable garter food and changing diet alone is not going to solve the problem.

[guidofatherof5]

Welcome to the forum. You have recieved great advice.
I have to ask. How do you know it is a B1 problem? What were they eating before? You stated you switched them over.
Over, from what? Can you give us some history on these 3 and maybe a photo?
I wish you the best of luck. Your 3 are in our prayers.

[drache]

all of the above
and - where in the country are you?
perhaps there are resources near you that you are not aware of

[tayler123]

Welcome to the forum. You have recieved great advice.
I have to ask. How do you know it is a B1 problem? What were they eating before? You stated you switched them over.
Over, from what? Can you give us some history on these 3 and maybe a photo?
I wish you the best of luck. Your 3 are in our prayers.

Hello there,
Well these garters are in early stages of B1( I have done a class project on vitamins problem in animals) so I kind of know the problem here.
The breeder used to feed them fish and somtimes worms and I don't have much options becuase I'm a student without money..I ment I switch the diet from fish to other types of food and only salmon for fish types.
I can provide a picture later.
Right now they just loose some controll I notice 2 days ago.
I had them for about a week now.
I don't want them to die

[tayler123]

don't feed crickets, they can't digest them.....not part of their normal diet

Sorry about that! I havn't feed any crickets yet to garters and now i'm not going to. I was told crickets are an okay food.
Thanks for the information!

[tayler123]

all of the above
and - where in the country are you?
perhaps there are resources near you that you are not aware of

I currently live in cape coral florida, I don't know any vets that will deal with snakes nor do I have the money to

[tayler123]

Most history I know of is that the breeder told me he didn't expect a WC gravid red side garter snake that he bought and have lots of new borns and was selling them. So I bought a trio of 2 males and a female.