Best diet?

[jitami]

And where can earthworms be bought?

Walmart in the sporting department, bait stores, etc. Make sure you're getting nightcrawlers and not red wigglers.

[misskris]

Most Petsmarts carry nightcrawlers. If they aren't out in a frig ask an assc. to check and see if yours carries them. Wal-Mart and bait stores generally carry them, although around here they don't keep them in stock during the winter.

[MasSalvaje]

If I remember correctly, they aren't.

I use rainbow trout and vendace, both known to be safe. This summer I'm going catch a few perch and see if the snakes find them acceptable.

Not to sound like I am doubting you at all but does that mean Guppies are also unsafe? They are from the same live bearing family.

I don't mean to cross threads on this one but I am interested to see how my snakes would take to the trout gelatin. The hard part will be convincing my wife of the idea of trout jello in the freezer.

-Thomas

[infernalis]

And where can earthworms be bought?

Sporting goods at Wal mart, bait shops, etc....

I buy night crawlers and chop them up.

[adamanteus]

The whole concept of buying worms still confuses me.... especially if you only have one snake to feed. Just collect a few from the garden or locally. To me it's like asking 'Where can I buy rain?' Just go outside and pick some up.

[Snake lover 3-25]

i buy night crawlers and leave them for as long as possible in the fridge without feeding them off.... i put a few mouse feet and a piece of lettuce in about once a month..... i started out with 24 big ones and now i've got lots and lots of worms of all sizes!!! and best of all i know none have pesticides!!!

[guidofatherof5]

The whole concept of buying worms still confuses me.... especially if you only have one snake to feed. Just collect a few from the garden or locally. To me it's like asking 'Where can I buy rain?' Just go outside and pick some up.

I wish I could go outside and get some but we're frozen solid here in Iowa. I have to buy. I need too many to store them from the season before. I usually have about a month supply saved from my backyard. Then I'm forced to buy.

[Snake lover 3-25]

steve, with the # of snakes you've got why not just keep a 5 gallon sized plastic bin out in the garage? (cold keeps them alive longer...) just feed them lettuce and a few mice every month and spray it down every so often and you'll have a colony going in no time!!!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Not to sound like I am doubting you at all but does that mean Guppies are also unsafe? They are from the same live bearing family.

-Thomas

Guppies are safe.

Platies and guppies are actually in the same genus!!! It's weird because mollies look a lot like platies, but they are not in the same genus as the other two. I was wondering about that also, but chose not to say anything. I thought that platies were labled safe.... but I know someone came into our forums and said they had a bad expierience with platies, and maybe Stefan was just remembering that?

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

The whole concept of buying worms still confuses me.... especially if you only have one snake to feed. Just collect a few from the garden or locally. To me it's like asking 'Where can I buy rain?' Just go outside and pick some up.

well... here, right now the ground is frozen... and so.... I for one cannot see myself finding a single worm outside right now! haha! Walmart has always had them here but not too long ago they ran out, and I NEEDED them (as in, my albino dekay's snake will starve without them, he only eats worms and wormy smelling pinky pieces).... I had to go to the specialty shop and pay 8 freaking dollars for a container of two dozen worms