New food item

[GarterGuy]

Hello all,
Today I tried something out with my T.s.concinnus, I gave him/her (still working on this one!!!!!) a snail. I've seen pics of garters eating slugs before, so I thought I'd give it a try. I have these snails that I feed to my Bluetongue Skink...they're made by ZooMed and sold as Can'O Snails. They're captive raised, "cooked" and deshelled snails for feeding reptiles and such. I actually by a can of them and then freeze them so they last longer. Anyways, my T.s.concinnus took it right off the bat with out any worries...of course this was Petra, the same snake that was trying to eat silicon! So yeh, you might want to give them a try with your snakes. Figure the more variety the better, and since they're a commercially produced product, there's no worries about parasites or anything.
Roy

[mikm]

Interesting that you mention that Roy as while browsing through the pet store yesterday I was looking at that and other foods like it and wondering ...

thanks
marian

[drache]

Yeah, thanks, I'll try them.

A couple of years ago we had a bunch of little slugs on a carved pumpkin outside and I tried offering them to a snake - no interest

[adamanteus]

I've used slugs in the past. I reared some baby Dekays snakes (Storeria dekayii) on tiny slugs the size of match heads, it worked out well. I've fed them to Garters and to Slow Worms (Anguis fragilis) too. The preferred type seem to be those little beige coloured ones...no idea of a latin name, or common name for that matter! I didn't know you could buy such things from a shop though.

[Thamnophis]

My T. s. sirtalis ate them (living ones) too last year. Caught them in our garden. Maybe I will try the this year on the onter species. I do not know the canned type.

[ssssnakeluvr]

most of my garters take slugs just fine. Have fed slugs for years when I have been able tofind them.

[adamanteus]

What kind of slugs? All sorts, or just the little beige ones?

[ssssnakeluvr]

the only ones I can find in my area are gray ones...haven't seen any others....

[adamanteus]

Right. In my garden I have some big black ones, about the size of a small family car!! Nothing seems to eat them!

[ssssnakeluvr]

wow..big ones!!! While in the army I was stationed in Germany. There were some big brown slugs with yellow bellies over there...several we found were close to 6 inches long!!!!!!