Priceless Guppies!

[mtolypetsupply]

Hand fed every baby. Everyone is sleeping like a rock. No activity in any enclosures. Kind of like us after a big Thanksgiving meal.

Nice to hear that today was a day for good eating!!!!! Warm fuzzies to you and your babies!!!!

[mtolypetsupply]

Lucky! {said in my best napolean dynamite voice}

I'd ship you some, but I have NO idea how to package fish to go the distance!!!! How warm is it in N. Calif???? It was 29deg today here, tell me in the 70's and I'll bring 'em out in person! LOL

[infernalis]

Hand fed every baby. Everyone is sleeping like a rock. No activity in any enclosures. Kind of like us after a big Thanksgiving meal.

Now there is a massive undertaking Steve, Wonder why YOU didn't pass out after that.

[guidofatherof5]

Well Wayne,
It's not the feeding part that takes so much time. It's the trying to teach manors as I go along. You know, "Don't take food out of someone elses mouth" "Don't bite someone just because they got some food and you didn't" "No pushing or biting to be next in line" No swallowing your brother or sister because they had worm slime in their face""No sneaking up behind and taking food from the container" on and on it goes.
Life is good! They're here and so am I. So many of my babies have such different personalities and traits. I have some that rush in to get some and rush out with it. Others take it, eat it and never move,expecting more once there done. Then there's my quiet ones who wait until the crowd has cleared.
There is a definite pecking order. It's not always the biggest who tries to dominate. In my TLC enclosure, the leader is the smallest (Laci). It only takes a stair and the others wait their turn. Others will try talk'in smack to her but it doesn't work. She's one that won't be leaving in the spring. She loves to get out and sit with everyone. I didn't think she would make it but she has proved me wrong. She has such a beautiful little face. My kids just love her. I'll get a photo and post it.

"Life is good, everyday"

[infernalis]

Obviously we too have some exciting moments at feeding time. I get tired while feeding and have a rotational shift method, one third of the collection one evening, another third the next and so on.

We have had a few "power feeding" sessions, and they lasted well into the late night early AM hours.

After a few accidents, I just made up my mind to get a stack of mini totes, and feed each snake one at a time. I will get 7-10 (depending on brood size, how many are left, etc..) and place each one in it's own box with food items.

Some can inhale food really quickly, others will take forever to swallow the pinky.

Yeah it is grand, would not want it any other way. I can hate the world at one moment for whatever reason, but I find peace in the reptile room, sometimes so much peace, I fall asleep on the floor staring into cages.

[brain]

Make sure you only buy the nightcrawler at the bait shop. No red-ring red worms(Say that 5 times FAST) The red-ring are toxic.

OK added to my “What I have learned about garter snakes” sheet

[infernalis]

Just got in 200 guppies, The pet store special ordered them.

Thing is I got 200 baby guppies!

Power feeding them like 4 times a day, man these little things suck down the fish flakes.

Really need to beef them up, they are so small at the moment that the juvenile snakes hardly notice them in the water dish!

[Lori P]

" No swallowing your brother or sister because they had worm slime in their face"

ROFLMAO!!!!! That's certainly an important one!!!

[drache]

After a few accidents, I just made up my mind to get a stack of mini totes, and feed each snake one at a time. I will get 7-10 (depending on brood size, how many are left, etc..) and place each one in it's own box with food items.

the container store gives you a discount on the shoe box size sterilite when you buy ten I think

[jitami]

Wayne, hard boiled egg yolk, smashed, mixed in water(quite a bit of water, maybe two cups), then fed a spoonful at a time is supposed to work wonders for baby guppies. I just break apart the egg yolk and put it in a jar with some water, close the lid and shake until you just have tiny particles and pour a tablespoon or so into the aquarium. Store the rest in the fridge and use once or twice a day. I try to feed mine several times a day, too. Usually one or two egg yolk, at least one meal of flakes & hikari first bites, and about every other day they get thawed frozen brine shrimp. The brine shrimp are the adult's favorite by far. I do frequent water changes so don't worry too much about over feeding. I figure I'd rather change water and have fat feeder fish Even starting with a brand new tank I haven't lost any yet, so feeling ok with what I've been doing