Micro babies

[Garter_Gertie]

I missed the mom pic originally! What a precious snake!

Dave says, in his presentation, they're hard to keep. Are they? I just LOVE their small size and that 'gartery' face! You could keep quite a few happy in a 20 gal L!

[Sid]

Bless my stars and garters, Sid! I've never seen such a wee wee snake! They are so darling! We've them up here and I've turned over many logs looking for a red belly because I want to see one so badly. I'll be danged if I can find one!

Are you going to keep them? What do they eat when adults?

I'm looking at your picture and then comparing to my hand. YIKES! What? You could put the two of those on a quarter? What wonderful animals!

Gertie, they aren't that easy to find, nocturnal and stay mainly under logs. I have even found them inside decayed logs.

I'm only keeping them long enough to insure they eat and the main diet is worms and slugs with the latter being prefered.

[Garter_Gertie]

Thanks, Sid.

I need to go camping and go skulking in the middle of the night with a flashlight!

[Zephyr]

I'm pretty sure they'd be easy to keep inside a modified compost bin.

[Garter_Gertie]

One of the Prairie Care Species Stewards in Dave's Prairie Care Program (BORING!! History, culture and anjamuls is the way to go! ) has a fox snake lay eggs in his compost pile every year.

[infernalis]

I'm pretty sure they'd be easy to keep inside a modified compost bin.

Kyle, They are hard to keep. We lost more than I care to admit, and will never disturb them again.

They are cute, but even my momma red belly was MISERABLE in captivity, I couldn't take it any longer and we released her where we found her.

In contrast, you could keep a dekay in a "critter keeper" and it will thrive.

[zooplan]

OMG wow those are tiny!!!!! how long??? and more importantly what the heck are you going to feed them!!!!

That was my first thought as well

[Lori P]

Amazing, Sid!!!