Snake Update

[abcat1993]

Well, according to the snake measuring program my snake is roughly 13.9-14.5 inches long. The 13.9 was the first measurment and the 14.5 was the second (just goes to show that the software isn't perfect; that is unless you have a PERFECT picture that is completely flat and not taken at an angle) and last month it was roughly 11.7 (it actually went down somehow from 11.9)
So, in summary, it's grown at leat 2 inches in one month (I've taken the pictures every fifth of each month)

[Elliot]

Wow, you feed it pinkies right? (just asking because that may be the reason)

[abcat1993]

No, actually it's only eaten one at the most in the past month. I feed it worms on tuesday and friday. I also occasionally dust them with powder too, since I'm not feeding pinkies.

[Elliot]

Oh, cool. I tried to get my ribbon to eat worms but he'll only eat fish and pinkies (not that I should complain).

[abcat1993]

Lucky, mine won't even go near fish (but I haven't tried recently)

[Elliot]

That's kinda weird it's usually getting them to eat pinkies thats hard.

[Snaky]

If you have something that your snake eats and you want to add to the diet, you can scent the new things with the food he does eat. This trick does wonders most of the time.

[abcat1993]

I've tried, he used to eat pinkies like that but not anymore.

[abcat1993]

Is it weird that my garter sticks his tail straight up and tries wrapping himself around the container (one of those small cricket containers). Also, if he's eating a worm, before he finishes, he rubs the worm in his mouth on the side of the tank.

[suzoo]

Is it weird that my garter sticks his tail straight up and tries wrapping himself around the container (one of those small cricket containers). Also, if he's eating a worm, before he finishes, he rubs the worm in his mouth on the side of the tank.

Don't know if this helps, but in the wild, and I love snake-watching, when a snake gets a worm, the worm is generally partly in a hole, so wrapping around something like a rock or branch, or even blade of grass, gives them leverage to pull the worm out of the hole. Also, the worm will have dirt/debris on it (again in the wild) and rubbing the worm on rocks/branches as they eat it helps remove some of the dirt, so they ingest less of it. Your snake is probably just emulating behavior of a wild snake. (Instinct)? Just my view, I could be totally off.