Worms verses Mice

[guidofatherof5]

anything to keep them from rubbing their butts on the SIDES of the enclosures!! man do I hate that!

That's why they do it. The other night I did glass cleaning. In the morning it looked terrible.
They can't get their butts up that high. They must be boosting each other up.
They all had this silly little grin on their faces when I turned the light on. JERKS

[drache]

I think that must be some kind of marking behaviour

[keelerskiddiecare]

Steve,
Wiggles, was always more aggressive with the worms than the mice. It actually took months of trying for me to get wiggles to eat mice. Now he eats them quite vivaciously. As for frogs, look out you could loose a finger feeding him one of those!!

[drache]

just found this article of interest regarding worms - something to consider, depending on where you live
Worms absorb human pollutants | csmonitor.com
somehow I've not been able to find the paper this is based on

[Quibble]

My Gimpie is like a tiger with worms, she stalks them then pounces on them with no mercy. She loves it when I give her a bowl of worms and wet dirt too. when I walk by her tank she pops her head out and has a huge mud-covered smile on her face!

[guidofatherof5]

My Gimpie is like a tiger with worms, she stalks them then pounces on them with no mercy. She loves it when I give her a bowl of worms and wet dirt too. when I walk by her tank she pops her head out and has a huge mud-covered smile on her face!

They do like to dig in dirt. I always leave the empty worm container in for them to search threw.

[jamromhem]

Mine tends to be very laid back.. she gets more aggressive with live fish, though I haven't tried feeding frogs yet.

Pinkies she seems to cuddle a little, then she moves em to another spot in her tank and leaves em there to cook in the lamps then she gets around to eating them later.. (she is strange) Worms she will stalk and wait for them to touch her face then she will bite then and drag em to her hide. (she is odd by many means)

[drache]

is anyone else here concerned about feeding their snakes prey that's essentially laden with environmental toxins?

[jitami]

is anyone else here concerned about feeding their snakes prey that's essentially laden with environmental toxins?

I've always been more comfortable feeding mostly rodents... but they are rather fatty compared to the snakes natural diet... toxins, parasites, thiaminaise... there's not one simple prey item that doesn't have it's own set of problems. Hey, whatever happened to garter grub? LOL Seriously, though, I prefer to stay with mainly rodents. They seem like more of a 'known entity' to me than frogs, fish and worms.

[Didymus20X6]

They do like to dig in dirt. I always leave the empty worm container in for them to search threw.

This might help explain something for me.

Last night, I watched fascinated as my green snake (I really need to come up with names for these guys - stupid broken imagination!) kept digging and burrowing around the enclosure last night. It was fun to watch, and I assumed she was just trying to explore, but the digging and burrowing was highly unusual.

But here's the kicker. Earlier in the day, I found a huge nightcrawler on my driveway. I was working on something, and this sucker was so big, I initially thought it was a small garter. I picked it up and dropped it in the enclosure, right next to ol' greeny (who was hiding in a bamboo tube, incidentally), and when I looked a little while later, it was gone.

I'm wondering if she was looking for more nightcrawlers.