OMG....Babies!!!

[DEKAN]

OMG...I found Babies!!!!

I still don't know how many...but I'll see later, there's too much news paper and they could be under some pages.



What should I give them???

Im so Excited...my first babies

[DEKAN]

Anotherone

[ssssnakeluvr]

they wont eat for a day or two. they will go thru a shed first. feeder guppies are a good fish to start with.

[Stefan-A]

Excellent! Congratulations.

[Lulu Bennett]

OMG!! congrat sweety they are beautiful.
try worms??

[DEKAN]

Thanx

I'll try worms tomorow...and tomorrow I'll take the mom to the vet she refused the scented pinkies.

Strange she had only 6 babies...Four of them have orange stripes but the other two have yellow stripes, like the mom. Could this be females and males or it has nothing to do with it?

By the way could someone put a pic of the guppies?...I think it's a different kind, cause in Mexico Gupies are these:

Or is it the same?

thanx in advance

[GarterGuy]

Very cool.....do we still not know what species of garter this is???? I know I can't really tell from the baby pics. Nothing like I've ever seen before and I know the pic of moma you had wasn't really familiar either?????
Oh, as far as the colour determining sex....really doubt it, I don't think there are any garters that show sexually dimorphic colours. And as for the guppies.....yep that's them. There are usually cheaper ones sold at the petstore called "feeder guppies".....just ask I'm sure they'll know what you're talking about. Again congrats!!!!

Roy

[DEKAN]

Ohhh...ok, I'll look for them today, cause I've just seen the colorfull ones :P

And yep, all of the babies are almost black not dark-green like the mom, these one have orange, the other 2 are the same but with a green-yellow stripes

[adamanteus]

Congratulations Robert! I'm really pleased for you! As Don says, they won't eat for the first few days, so don't worry. Being a somewhat aquatic species, small fish such as feeder guppies would make an excellent first meal. Good luck and keep us posted.

@Roy: They are Thamnophis melanogaster melanogaster.

[garterking]

Congrats on your new arrivals.
As others stated, they won't eat for the first couple days or until their first shed.
Try feeding them small worms or feeder guppies, movement will help. Put the guppies in a shallow dish of water so that only the bottom half of the fish gets wet. They will move around a lot and that's what you need to attract the attention of the newbies.
Also, just a word of caution. Watch when you feed them that there aren't any fights over food if you use worms. Remember they are new to the world and haven't had a lot of experience. 2 can go after the same worm and if one doesn't let go and the other doesn't stop eating........ it's never a good turn out.
Congrats again and keep us updated.