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Why isnt my garter snake eating very much2007-11-24 2:05:05

Using 鈥渘atural鈥?garter snake food is hard. When people think about garter snake food, they think fish, worms and frogs. We鈥檒l leave aside frogs (i.e., tadpoles) for this article and focus on fish and worms, which are more easily obtained. Whole, live fish can be expensive and full of parasites; you need a lot of them and it鈥檚 hard to control how many each snake eats if you鈥檙e offering a dish full of fish to a cage full of snakes. Whole worms are too big for baby garters if you buy the big nightcrawlers from bait stores; small worms you collect out of the garden (or off the street when it rains 鈥?though that can鈥檛 be healthy, can it?) work just fine, and baby garters seem to love them, but it鈥檚 hard to get enough of them. And, as I mentioned before, baby garters don鈥檛 always recognize worm pieces or fish fillet as food.

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go to the vet and see if its sick but if its to much $$

than try making a potition!..

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Your snakes will develop a serious vitamin deficiency if you only feed them fish. They need much more protein & B-vitamins than the fish give them. Try nightcrawlers & different sized mice, live or frozen. I've raised two Eastern garters from birth to just under 4ft in three years. Other than during hibernation, they now eat mice readily & are healthy as horses.

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i can't believe anyone would seriously ask this question. it's not hungry. look it up. it would be great if i could only go on line and ask a question,oh wait.