They're Here!!!

[GartersRock]

Cute cute cute!!

[Snaky]

Congratulations, very nice looking babies

[jitami]

Thanks Guys! I saw both of them for a second this morning so all's well

[jitami]

Ok, I'll stop the play by play eventually, but just had to report that we have full little tummies I tried the no stress approach of just leaving a dish of food in the tank and both babies ate. The one who stays hidden most of the time was actually the first to the food dish That one ate a bit of pinky & some tillapia, the other a couple pieces of tilapia. Sweet!

So far, my adult Sly, does not recognize Tillapia as food! He got the two pinkies that I cut parts from w/ tilapia... we'll see.. Anyone else every have to scent fish with pinkies to get them to eat the fish? LOL

[anji1971]

They're really cute...... congratulations!

[jitami]

Thanks Anji!

And Sly was a definate no go with the strips of tilapia & pinkies! He approached the dish, sniffed, and wandered away. He usually has a voracious appetite and will eat mice enthusiastically both off a dish and with tongs. So I figured I would try tease feeding him the pinkies with tongs... big ole boy ran from the pinky! Ok, fine! Tomorrow he'll get pinkies that haven't touched that yucky tilapia.

[anji1971]

Mine were kind of funny with the tilapia at first. (Well, other than Deejay, who would eat anything!)
I realised after a few minutes that they had trouble seeing the white tilapia strips against the white feeding bin! So now I put them on a darker coloured plate when I feed them.

[jitami]

That's funny Anji, but makes sense! Sly wouldn't even touch the pink pinkies on the white plate(plastic lid). It had to have been smell, cause it got his attention and he went to check them out, but wasn't interested. He'll eat fish out of a dish, maybe I'll try floating some pieces of tilapia in his water dish next time I get some rosy reds? Mice are easy enough, tho.

One of the babies, on the other hand, would have eaten the white dish if he could have

[jitami]

Since it's so quiet today I thought I'd let you guys know that both babies were hangin' out in their plants this morning... total opposite corners of the tank, both chillin' then one did a little exploring... now they're both gone I'm thinking this tank will work out ok after all. As long as I see them both a couple of times a day I'm going to assume they're fine.

Today's observation of the babies led me to a question, though. For those of you who find babies in the wild, how often are they up high? They were both as high as they could get and I watched one trying to climb the glass and get higher for a while before settling in the top of his "tree." I've never thought to look up while looking for garters, but It wasn't exceptionally cool either... was in the upper 70's in their tank this morning now low to upper 80's depending on which side and they're both MIA.

Just thought it was interesting... I know some of you have been through this a million times before... to you, sorry for the rambling

[Snake lover 3-25]

believe it or not i have found a garter up in a tree..... a good 6-7 feet two!!!! but she was very agressive.... only second to a baby i found once.... she was soon released back to her tree