Nerodia Sipedon - Water Snake

[bsol]

If your watersnakes have any babies let me know... I'd like to have one again!

[Snake lover 3-25]

lol nice kyle

glad they're eating for you wayne

[infernalis]

Aqua has been a little flaky as of late. He demands live fish in his water bowl and with the shortage of Dace minnows I tried guppies, too small to even get his attention.

So I have been forced to feed him less often and offer (gasp) large rosies.

The creek has thawed out, so I am hoping to catch a few dace for him, I really wish I could breed those (Dace minnows) guess I need to study the life cycle of them and set up a proper tank.

Anyways here is some more recent pictures of Aqua....

[crzy_kevo]

he is a good looking snake wayne hopefully you can net some of those minnows

[waterdragon]

i just found a baby banded water snake and he wont eat fish. after trial and error i found out he likes frogs. is there an easy way to get the little guy to eat pinkies? and i also have a corn snake i found and he eats lizards. is there an easy way to get him to eat pinkies too?

[Snake lover 3-25]

wyane can help you...... go to thamfrieds.com...... he'll be able to help switch it to pinkies....

[drache]

welcome to the forum, waterdragon
there are a few members here who have experience with water snakes, and I believe that Shannon (aSnakelovinbabe) for example would be a good person to help you out

[adamanteus]

wyane can help you...... go to thamfrieds.com...... he'll be able to help switch it to pinkies....

I think you'll get all the help you need right here on this forum..... we are after all a specialist natricine snake forum. No need to direct new members away from here.

[adamanteus]

The easiest way to get a snake to switch to frozen/thawed rodents is by scenting. Simply rinse the rodent in water to remove most of it's scent, then thoroughly rub it with a prey item that the snake readily accepts. This will transfer the scent onto the rodent.
Once the snake is accepting scented rodents it will gradually learn to take them with less and less scenting, then no scenting at all. It's easy.

[infernalis]

Aqua has been on a straight pink mouse diet now for just about 1 year.