Garter feeding styles, by species

[GGarter]

I read in Strumpfbandnatters that T. atratus in the wild bait fish with their tongues

I'll be getting mine in september.
I'll let you know if I see mine do the same

Can't wait!!!

Greets Tore

[DEKAN]

Mine (Thamnophis melanogaster canescens) likes to swim a little... sometimes she waits in the bottom looking the fish, and then lunges as you said. My tank it's a little bit big so, on 2 or 3 shots she gets one.

Regards

[Lee]

Baiting with tounges wow, make sure to get a deep enough water dish and capture it on film, how cool would that be!

[Dracaena828]

Both my garters are t.s.pickeringii and they each have their own style of eating. The male just gets excited when he sees fish and will plunge right in the bowl and swim around mouth open until he runs into something. The female is pretty cool, she sits poised above the water stock-still like a cat and dives only when a fish happens right below her. I've never seen a garter that hunts like that before. The garters I used to have when I was younger both used the open mouthed swim approach (common and a red-sided, not sure of species beyond that...). At any rate both are fun to watch
Angela

[zooplan]

Once I got some quail fledlings and feed them to a big female red sided and a wandering garter snake.
The ´parietalis needs about half an hour to dispatch one but the ´vagrans wolf it down in less than ten minutes.

[KITKAT]

I read in Strumpfbandnatters that T. atratus in the wild bait fish with their tongues
that's pretty cool
has anyone seen that in captivity?

Does anyone breed atratus?

[zooplan]

of course

but I do´nt offer living fish in a big bowl

There are two books with the same title in German which one do quote?

[drache]

There are two books with the same title in German which one do quote?

When people here quote from Strumpfbandnattern, it's usually Hallmen/Chlebowy
most people here don't know the other
besides that one's called Die Strumpfbandnattern (I'm assuming you mean Mutschmann)

[ssssnakeluvr]

Scott Felzer breed the one stripe morph of atratus.....

[GarterGirl]

Gee!
I forgot!
I haven't gotten baby garters for a long time! (It seems)

Sorry KITKAT