My first garter ?

[Zephyr]

If you cut the fish into meal sized portions before you freeze it, you can just thaw one portion at feeding time. This is then cut into easy to swallow sized strips, offered either in forceps or on a little dish.

Don't forget the vitamin supplements! Fillets sans bone lack calcium...

[adamanteus]

Don't forget the vitamin supplements! ...

Or better still, the pinkies and nightcrawlers.

[Zephyr]

Or better still, the pinkies and nightcrawlers.

Either works. :P

[adamanteus]

Either works. :P

Well, maybe. But vitamin supplements are no substitute for food.

[INTREPiiD]

Where can I get the pinkies, and for how much ? Can I feed them pinkies for their entire lifespan, or do I eventually have to graduate them to fuzzies, hoppers, jumpers, then adult mice ?

[jeanette]

you can get pinkies from reptile supply stores, or some ordinary petshops. you have to feed according to the snakes size you can get varying sizes of pinkies just as you can get varying size of fuzzies. ask for the size you want. i make my supplier sort through his bag of pinkies to find the size i want for my garters just as i do when i buy pinkies for my pyxie frog or my pacman frog.

[Stefan-A]

Where can I get the pinkies, and for how much ? Can I feed them pinkies for their entire lifespan, or do I eventually have to graduate them to fuzzies, hoppers, jumpers, then adult mice ?

Most pet stores carry them. I suppose. If not, you may have to find a breeder, order the pinkies or breed them yourself.

You can feed them pinkies for their entire lifespan, but I know that with the prices I'm paying for my pinkies, it's a lot cheaper to feed them bigger mice once they can eat them. The price difference is so small, that the price per weight unit drops significantly as the size of the mouse increases. For example, two pinkies cost me 1.5 - 1.8 times as much as a single crawler. Then again, I have no idea how much they cost over there.

[adamanteus]

I only use pinkies... no fuzzies, hoppers etc. Bigger snakes just get more. That said, 60% of my snakes' diet is fish.

[Lori P]

Hi Michelle, and welcome! Hope you enjoy it here. :-)

[anji1971]

Hello and welcome!