T. ordinoides on the Ranch

[guidofatherof5]

Luckily I was taking a photo and caught this fight. It lasted all of 2 seconds. No one was injured and they went back to the food dish for more food.

[ProXimuS]

Wow! Feisty little babies

[Lisa4john]

"More food, or I'm eating Chester!" Glad you were there.

[guidofatherof5]

It was a beautiful morning in the snake room. As I walked passed the baby Northwestern tub I saw 6 little faces looking at me. It was then I realized I hadn't fed the little scrubs on schedule. I was a day late.
I prepared a small food dish with some worm chunks and grabbed a pair of hemostats to assist in the feeding.
I quickly set the dish down and served a chunk to the smallest of the group. The other 5 rushed my hand and atempted to take the 1 piece of food. This with a dish full right in front of them. It was all I could do to keep up with these little monsters.
I will never be late again.

[d_virginiana]

It's a well-known fact that the food being eaten by another snake is much tastier than any available chunk of food.

[katach]

That is so true Lora. My female radix Kenzo is like that.

[guidofatherof5]

I looked in on the little scrubs hoping to see them under their hide resting after their meal yesterday.
Nope, instead I had 6 starved monsters snapping for food.

They say necessity is the mother of invention so I will create the:
Ordie-o-matic™
A continuous feeding device for T.ordinoides (Northwestern Garter Snake)
I see why Richard sent them to me.

[ProXimuS]

Just put a tube on the end of a giant funnel and keep the funnel constantly filled with worms

[guidofatherof5]

Flicker shed and ate today. He looks great.
The food drive on these little babies is amazing.

[ConcinusMan]

I see why Richard sent them to me.

I sent them to you because unlike yourself, I need to limit the number of snakes I have, especially the number of babies I am raising at any given time. I can't/don't want to, buy/store worms in bulk and I sure as heck am not going to find any in the high desert. At $3 a dozen, it gets expensive. Believe it or not, as cool as they are, I'm more interested in other species anyway. Still, at the same time, the stripeless gene is in those babies which I think is really cool. Also they're captive born and I will not be returning to the wild habitat where they belong, until next year. I wanted them to go where I would get plenty of updates on their progress and watch them grow without having to raise them myself. Plus, you got the only other (adult) stripeless ones I have found. Might as well have that morph all in one place. Maybe you'll even produce some CB litters.

And Steve, if you don't want them to get "stuck" on just worms, I would highly suggest you also feed them pinky parts and fish now while they're young if you want them accept a variety of foods later.