What fish are safe to feed with?

[nekura]

I think they may be guppies! What do you think?
Endlers U.S.A. :: View topic - Philippine wild Guppies
The second picture in particular. I browsed through minnows and saw nothing that looked similar.

@guidofatherof5

Nope, it's called cajun fishing. You take a net and you go stomping around in ditches to see what interesting things you find. This was a favorite activity when I was a child and I still enjoyed it immensely even though I had to sanitize myself after rolling around in dirt and mud =D. We saw a baby loggerhead turtle and a water moccasin (not a snake I'd catch) while wading around our local rural ditches and gullies. The moccasin actually sat around and watched us about 7 feet away, we kept the water between him and us but he was really pretty. We were kinda stealing his food anyway. This was all from relatively very small bodies of water near gravel roads.

Unfortunately its dove season and everyone was shooting and making loud noises. I also happen to love doves since the pet one I had was the absolute best bird I've ever raised. She'd sit in your lap and coo when you rubbed her. So that was the one downside. And I mean people were shooting EVERYWHERE around us. I was worried a stray bullet might hit us or something.

EDIT: OH OH I FORGOT THE BEST PART. When I got back home and was sorting through the fish and cleaning (we also accidentally caught two perches =D) our snake killing dog was goin crazy by some grass so I want over there to investigate, and wouldn't you know I see a baby ribbon snake's head poking up at me. I picked him up. Same size as the one in the picture above and located relatively in the same location of the yard so they were probably siblings. So I went ahead and put him in the terrarium too.

[guidofatherof5]

Thanks for explaining things to me.
Sounds like a fun time. The baby Loggerhead had to be cool.
Dove are awesome.

[nekura]

Oh, this site also shows wild guppies towards the bottom. Looks just like it. All my life I called these things minnows.. colorful tropical fish pictures, Poecilia reticulata, guppy

And it was fun =) My mom drove (she's in a postal service truck with drivers seat on right side) so we both hung our heads out the window until we found a ditch with interesting things.

[nekura]

Since I caught those in the wild they may have parasites. Is it safe to feed snakes fish that have been treated with anti-parasite medication? Is there a certain time I should wait?

[kibakiba]

I wouldn't treat the fish with anything, the chemicals can harm your snake. What you could do, though, is freeze them for 3 weeks at 0 degrees, it really helps with the parasite load.

[guidofatherof5]

Since I caught those in the wild they may have parasites. Is it safe to feed snakes fish that have been treated with anti-parasite medication? Is there a certain time I should wait?

You might need to contact the maker of the fish med. with that question.

[luke.B]

it is a gambusia for sure. it looks like a Gambusia holbrooki. Global Species : Gambusia holbrooki (Bore-drain fish; Eastern gambusia; Eastern mosquito fish; Eastern mosquitofish; Gambies; Gambusia; Mosquitofish; Plague minnow; Starling's perch; Top minnow) or maybe a gambusia affinis. western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) - FactSheet if he is a wc snake, and has not been tread for parasite. it might be ok to feed untried fish to him. i would treat some of them and used the ones you treated to start a breeding group. they pump lots of live baby's out fast just like guppies. and have 5 to 100 baby's every time. i keep a 100 gal stock tank of them on my back porch. as many as i used i never run out and i only put like 50 in it wen i set it up. but i would only uses the baby not the tread fish to feed to be safe

[nekura]

it is a gambusia for sure. it looks like a Gambusia holbrooki. Global Species : Gambusia holbrooki (Bore-drain fish; Eastern gambusia; Eastern mosquito fish; Eastern mosquitofish; Gambies; Gambusia; Mosquitofish; Plague minnow; Starling's perch; Top minnow) or maybe a gambusia affinis. western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) - FactSheet if he is a wc snake, and has not been tread for parasite. it might be ok to feed untried fish to him. i would treat some of them and used the ones you treated to start a breeding group. they pump lots of live baby's out fast just like guppies. and have 5 to 100 baby's every time. i keep a 100 gal stock tank of them on my back porch. as many as i used i never run out and i only put like 50 in it wen i set it up. but i would only uses the baby not the tread fish to feed to be safe

Awesome. Sounds like a good plan. Unfortunately the whole batch died because I didn't give them time to get used to the pond water so I caught another batch (the water moccasin was still there too XD) and are slowly introducing them to the water. Do they need an air pump or anything?

EDIT: I caught one of the snakes trying to eat some of the salmon steak I put in! But stupid me had it too big and by the time the snake took interest in it it had dried out and wasn't very edible. The cage is right by my computer and they're too shy to come our while I'm around. =(

[luke.B]

its not a must have just a good filter does the trick for them

[Mrs N1ntndo]

exactly what kind of guppies are in the 100gal tank and are those the ones that need a ppump? If I dont have a pump will they die with out one.