How to de-stress and get my wild caught baby garter to eat?

[Tzacol]

So far, so good. Checked the dish and neither slug nor earthworm are there. The slug probably just wandered off, but the earthworm wasn't going anywhere after having been chopped in half, so my guess is it was eaten I'll try feeding again in a day or two and let you know how it went.

Temp in a cooler area was 70, and the closest spot to the lamp was 92. Are those okay temps for northwestern garters?

[RedSidedSPR]

good to hear.

temps are fine. gives him a wide range to regulate himself. the beauty of a 30 gallon.

[Mommy2many]

So far, so good. Checked the dish and neither slug nor earthworm are there. The slug probably just wandered off, but the earthworm wasn't going anywhere after having been chopped in half, so my guess is it was eaten

You'd be surprised where half an earthworm can crawl off to...

[Tzacol]

You'd be surprised where half an earthworm can crawl off to...

Lol I agree but this one wasn't moving at all when I left and I checked all around the vicinity of the dish where they would normally go.

[snipstedy]

I have wondered about feeding with froglets. Is it typically overall safe? Im thinking of getting some tree frogs depending on how often they need feeding. About every other week or so I have to go to the next city over for work so if they need feeding every other day it wouldn't work out.

[Mommy2many]

Frogs & froglets will have many parasites. Safer to feed other items such as earthworms, salmon or pinkies.

[d_virginiana]

Frogs are generally a bad idea. Froglets/tadpoles can be used to get noneating babies started eating sometimes, but if they're eating other things it's not worth it. Plus unless the frog naturally lives in the same place and is eaten by your species of garter, you run into tox issues (frogs that normally wouldn't be thought of as toxic can cause snakes that wouldn't normally eat them to regurge).

[Tzacol]

I breed and raise my frogs, they don't come into contact with things from outside, and the originals came from the exact same area the garter came from. Would that make it fine to feed the babies to my garter?

Also I put in a new dish with an earthworm, I'll check on it soon.

[Tzacol]

Forgot to update on that worm, I don't know what happened to it, but today, I plopped a slug down on a rock, and within seconds he ate! Right in front of me I also was out in the forest I got him from, looking for rubber boas and alligator lizards, and found four more garters lol, a couple of which were a pretty good size.

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