Do You Recommend Feeding Your Garters in a seperate Terrarium?

[Jack Neary]

Hi Everyone!
Do you move your pet Garters to a seperate space when you feed them or just place Minnows, Pinkies, etc.... right in their terrarium and let them go at it?
Thanks for all the great advice!
Jack

[infernalis]

Depends on the circumstances...

Our snakes in Aspen, eco earth and bark - we feed in a tote with no substrate in it.

The animals with cage carpet, I just toss in the food.

My biggest concern is ingesting substrate, I have seen it kill snakes.

[anji1971]

I always feed mine in a separate place. I use a plain old dishpan from the dollar store, and use it to feed in.
I had a snake that died after ingesting a piece of bark, and that's what made me start doing this.
However, if you have a snake that's extremely skittish, and you can't get it to eat in a separate bin, then using the enclosure they're already in is fine. Just make sure you place the food on a flat surface (a margarine tub lid works great!) and watch very closely that the snake doesn't swallow any substrate.

[drache]

currently I can feed all my snakes where they live, but it does depend and I do supervise
only snakes that are housed singly and are shy get their food items left in the enclosure

[crzy_kevo]

i feed george by hand usually, i tried feeding in a seperate area but she doesnt seem to like it so i just dangle the food in her face and watch carefully

[Garter_Gertie]

I feed Winnie as I hold her. I'm going to try and do the same with Jeepers, Peepers and Kenabec. If I'm not able to will feed in something seperate from their tanks because of the substrate.

[infernalis]

I have a Puget named "Sky" that will sit in my left hand and take food from my right hand, even if I could feed him in his enclosure, I like feeding him in my hand like that, so I always will.

BTW that is SKY in my avatar.

MK - Peepers has taken food from me, Jeepers is a shy one, and will hide from you. (who knows, you may have the "gift" and maybe Jeepers will take food from you)

[Garter_Gertie]

Dekay, Jeepers will eventually. Trust me. We'll go at his pace. But eventually he won't be a scaredy cat. Will just take time.

Dave thinks I'm gifted with snakes. (shrugs)

[Gijs & Sabine]

It's impossible for us to feed all our garters seperate, so we put a dish with fish in each enclosure. Normaly there are no problems with that, only some species need some extra attention, for example our melanistics (they are very agressive at feedingtime)
Very important is to keep a very good watch at all the garters if everything is going allright during the feeding. If they bite eachother I have to interfere right away !! Aspecialy with the adults !
The (baby) mice and rats I feed individual by using tweezers.

This works alright for us, but we don't have a choice. If you have the opportunity to feed individual it's better. In that case you don't have any risk that they'll bite eachother.

[infernalis]

Who needs a seperate feeding area with this guy?