Ingestion of Organic Particles and Health

[ssssnakeluvr]

for some reason some garters, particularly ordinoides, are primarily worm eaters...they get the right nutrition in the wild, probably from what the worms eat. I don't think putting a little dirt in their food is a good idea.

[Stefan-A]

Well, who says they don't get impacted in the wild?

A little dirt is normal, but in a terrarium, we rarely have anything that even resembles nature and that includes a fairly loose substrate. Drag a fish across your lawn and do the same in a terrarium with peat moss substrate for example and you'll know what I mean. In the wild, the soil is compact and tied together by roots. The wild is nothing like a terrarium.