Earthworms and Red wigglers

[Aundrea]

Ohhhhh Tami my 9 year old would laugh at me also. And my bf's boys also. Ohh I can just see it now. UGH. Brats LOL. I just would not want to have worm guts and juice all over me. I know im a sissy LOL. I guess ill do it the hard way and dig and dig til I find something. Im looking at sites to buy worms lol. BTW are red worms the same as earthworms? Not the red wigglers just red worms?

[jitami]

Scissors it is then! Yeah, the boys thought it was just hilarious...

Sorry, I don't know the differences in worms yet. I was feeding Canadian nightcrawlers from the baitshop. Really only bought one tub. I gave up on them with the squirting incident and haven't looked back! With babies on the way I may have to try worms once again, though, so I'm reading and learning with you

[Aundrea]

I dont know the difference in worms yet either. I didnt know there was so many different kinds. I thought the red wigglers were just baby earthworms Guess we can learn together lol. I buy canadian worms for my box turtle. She LOVES them things. I would not look back either after what happend to you. So you got babies on the way? When are they due?

[crzy_kevo]

you can use those canadian night crawlers just cut them up im going to have to pick up some too as soon as my babies arrive

[Aundrea]

Wow everyones snakes are having babies lol. I cant wait to see babies

[crzy_kevo]

well she is a W/C gravid girl i only grabbed her because i can't seem to find a male around here and i hope to start breeding in a year or 2
this way i am gauranteed a male for sure

[Aundrea]

Ohh thats really cool. Im sure you will get a male outta that bunch I cant wait to see pics

[jitami]

I'm getting two of Kyle's (very affectionately said)"mutt" babies It was an accidental hybrid breeding and they'll live their life out here and not be bred or sold. I'm pretty excited! So far, I've only had a solo male that some of the neighborhood boys caught and were passing around, dropping, and trying to sell to each other in 2002. My boys came in begging to keep him, so I went out to take a look and felt so sorry for the little guy being unintentionally tortured that I said "ok." He's been wonderful, but raising a captive bred pair of babies will be a whole new experience for us!

[Aundrea]

awwwwwww that poor snake. Im glad that you kept him. I would love to have a baby sometime. Or anytime LOL. So your getting 2 mutts eh? awwwww thats neat tho. They are gonna be some happy babies. My bfs boys found the snake I have now last week.They sure did beg to me if they could keep it. My bf is not too crazy about snakes but I think they are neat but yeah im kinda scared of some of them but the one I have is very sweet.

[jitami]

awwwwwww that poor snake. Im glad that you kept him.

Honestly, I probably should have taken him from the boys and walked him back to the creek where they found him. It would have saved him a bit of suffering. I was totally unprepared for a snake. He had mites, which with help from some of our forum members I was able to treat succesfully... somewhere in there I almost cooked him in a 10 gallon tank with a heat lamp.... couldn't figure out why he was always climbing the glass, but it's a good thing he was, cause it allowed me to see his belly where the scales were starting to crinkle... he was way too hot and trying to get out of the heat. Again, with help from some of our forum members we got that all straightened out. Got him a bigger tank w/ less heat and all's been well since then, but.... I would always advise learning about snakes first, the type you're interested in particular, making sure you have everything you'll need to care for them properly, and then buying a healthy captive bred snake. That said, I don't have a moral issue with kids keeping a wild caught snake if they do so with the ability to care for the snake(usually involves daddies or mommies like you and I ). It's how pretty much everyone, at least in the Americas, first learns about and falls in love with garters