What fish are safe to feed with?

[nekura]

Alright thanks guys. I ended up eating the flounder myself after finding salmon steaks at wal-mart with no added ingredients. The little guy circled the dish for quite awhile but didn't eat. I may try Tilapia steaks if this doesn't work out.. but it really seems like no bait stores sell anything around here that's safe. No guppies, no silversides.

[hjelte]

I agree with Steve, there´s no use in experimenting on our snakes. Feed them what we know for sure is safe food.

[nekura]

I have another question while this thread is up, I noticed he has a tiny bump on the left side of his neck. It's so small you have to look from an above view to see it. Since I just caught him from the wild I don't have any previous history to give. I do know my dog had been after him, but as far as I know I didn't think the dog had clawed him. There wasn't blood or anything.

EDIT: Oh, one more thing. I heard you can't use heating rocks because they'll burn themselves, but is there some sort of low-powered heating rock that wouldn't have the heat to actively burn the snake? My current heating is a little awkward until I get a mesh covering for a 10 gallon tank I just got tonight. Though as I'm in the deep south there's no immediate worry about him getting too cold. I would just like him to be comfortable.

[guidofatherof5]

Hard to say what that bump could be. Could be an old injury, swollen lymph node, insect bite or many other things.
Keep an eye on it for swelling or seepage.
Any chance we could see a photo.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

I would like to see a photo if you could im with steve on this it could be anything from an old injury, lymph node, blister, raised scales from mites, flukes and lots of other things so a pic would help. I would like to make a suggestion on the feeding thing the fish you buy at the market like salmon or tilapia is great food but it smells different and some wild caught snakes want take it at first so what you need to do is cut a strip the size you need to feed the snake and then scent it with a minnow like the ones he already ate.

[Mrs N1ntndo]

I feed my snakes and there babies still but I feed them worms with either Salmon or Tilapia. They like both kinds of fish and theses are the only fish Ive giving them so far cause they were really cheap to get for me and they were already frozen from my local grocery store. You said your snake didnt eat it but did you try using Hemostates to feed your snake cause my babies will for the most part only eat the fish from those and not laid down on something.Sometimes they will eat it if it fell off the hemos but usally I need to pick it back up. Just something mine do that maybe you can try.

[amattel]

I raise mollies for mine until I switch them over to pinkies.

I have some guppies in there too.

[nekura]

I can't get a picture until my mom figures out how to email Iphone photos to me. This could takes weeks, lol. But nah I'll do it tomorrow.

He wasn't eating so I but a red rosy in there and he instantly devoured that thing, making me quite sure I MUST find guppies or some other small feeder fish to give him, but Petsmart and Petco don't sell anything but toxis red rosies to kill everyone's reptiles with. It baffles me. Then they won't sell the small fish they have since they weren't meant for food.

I mad.

I did buy him a big new pretty cage and basking lamp though. He's very curious for a wild caught I just got 4 days ago. He's wandering about and basking and such, not shy at all.

EDIT: Do you need a filter if you raise guppies/mollies/whatever for their tank? I put the excess minnows in a kiddy pool outside we had for the dogs.

[guidofatherof5]

Have you tried worms/night crawlers?

[snakehill]

Here's a question. I am going to the feed/bait store down the street in a little bit. What small live fish should I be looking for that would be okay for a garter?