Odd question about feeding multiple Garters.

[NickB]

I also prefer to separate for feeding, but it's mostly for my benefit - I don't have to watch for food fights, I'll know how much they ate, and I use the opportunity to do some cleaning. I also have some snakes who take their sweet time deciding if they're going to eat or not, so rather than watch for an hour I just check on them periodically. I also feed my largest snake last - sometimes she gets so many leftovers from the others that I don't need to set aside any food for her.

It's not a garter, but I tend to do this with my Kingsnake (Splendida, Desert) as it will eat anything the others will and has a brilliant feeding response.

[Selkielass]

My 'normal' feeders who are relatively close in size bowl feed together without problems. Smaller or shyer individuals benefit from separate feeding- just watch that nobody is getting intimidated and hiding without a full belly.

[EasternGirl]

I always feed all of my snakes separately except for my baby easterns...they eat together, under close supervision, because food fights do occur. I use feed tanks for my adults.

[katach]

All of ours are hand fed or tong fed individually, in tank, and supervised until food is swallowed completely. They stress too much if we move them to a feeding tank, then they don't eat. We keep a food log of who ate and how much so we know who to offer snacks to first.