What Type of Worms Do You Recommend?

[Jack Neary]

and please also advise your suggestions of on-line dealers to order the preferred/best worm type for Garters...
Thanks!
Jack

[Garter_Gertie]

Wal-Mart's Canadian Night Crawlers, cut into small pieces. Night Crawlers have been known to crawl out the back end of a snake, killing the snake.

[Lori P]

You know, mine will not eat night crawlers... they only take the smaller worms I find in the yard!!! Not sure what that's all about. Try it and see what yours prefer, Jack... just no red wigglers.

[infernalis]

Jack, we have been feeding the "Panfish/trout" worms from wal mart for years, no problem.

Most any eathworm except red wigglers will be fine.

[Snake lover 3-25]

i got some "panfish" worms from one of those bait machines...... and they looked like red wigglers..... they had distinct banding..... so i used them for fishing instead of feeding them to my snakes..... do "panfish" worms have banding too???

[Garter_Gertie]

Dekay, you're kidding me, right?

It was the trout/panfish worms I bought first. Jeepers spit it out and would have NOTHING to do with it. I wonder if different companies? So I returned those and got the Wal-Mart Canadian Night Crawlers. These Night Crawlers are distrubuted by DMF Bait Company outta Waterford, Michigan. Hhhuummm... they have a Website. I'll check it out and see about their trout/pan fish worms.

All I know is Jeepers hated the ones I bought originally and had slimey mouth and wouldn't eat them.

Weird.

[Snake lover 3-25]

i think sometimes people label red wigglers as panfish worms....... so just ba very careful....... check for banding

[Garter_Gertie]

Shanley, I did. but *I* couldn't see any.

Look at this! It looks like DMF's trout/panfish worms could be read wigglers! I don't know the latin name for red weigglers:

DMF Bait Panfish / Trout

[Snake lover 3-25]

that's exactly what they looked like!!!!

[Loren]

Jack, thanks for bringing this up, I had the same question.
Also, what is the actual danger of red wigglers?