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[kueluck]

Garter don't eat bugs. They love Canadian nightcrawlers, & I also feed frozen/thawed pinky mice and fresh tilapia, some times salmon. They eat every third day and I just rotate these 3 food items each time.

No, yours eat your fingers... And somehow look kinda cute doing it. What DO your snakes eat? Are they purely bug fed or do you feed little mice too?

[yoshimi]

Garter don't eat bugs. They love Canadian nightcrawlers, & I also feed frozen/thawed pinky mice and fresh tilapia, some times salmon. They eat every third day and I just rotate these 3 food items each time.

Interesting. Just found out they're my state reptile. Which makes sense since we used to catch and release them and one wandered into my bf's breezeway freaking me out. Jerk. I just assumed they'd eat bugs too, but maybe he was there for our chipmunks or baby squirrels. Or random toads that hop by.
I think feeding live mammals would be difficult. And frogs, fuhgetaboutit. People get used to it, but it'd be a difficult learning curve for me.
I have a mental image of you making a thawed pinky mouse dance around. Again, I'm assuming they generally go for live prey, or they'd be swallowing rocks all the time. Unless they also go by scent. So much I don't know. Pondering as I type, and sit here on hold.
It's hard to stick to just frog talk... Anyhoo, can't wait to see updates and pics on new additions. I think they're the same type of tree frog discussed in a post that made me very sad/angry. So looking forward to seeing some being taken care of.

[kueluck]

The snakes hunt by scent not sight, that's why Jewels has chewed on me a few times. I feed them with tongs and the pinky mice are frozen when I get them, so they are just food to me. When the snakes were tiny, like 4 day old tiny I had to cut the pinkies up for them, which I learned you do when they are still frozen otherwise it’s kinda gross. If I didn’t have frozen pinkies they would get worms and fish only, pinkies just make it a balance diet. If you want to see/read more on my garters you can go here Gail's garter - the snake kind silly.

Interesting. Just found out they're my state reptile. Which makes sense since we used to catch and release them and one wandered into my bf's breezeway freaking me out. Jerk. I just assumed they'd eat bugs too, but maybe he was there for our chipmunks or baby squirrels. Or random toads that hop by.
I think feeding live mammals would be difficult. And frogs, fuhgetaboutit. People get used to it, but it'd be a difficult learning curve for me.
I have a mental image of you making a thawed pinky mouse dance around. Again, I'm assuming they generally go for live prey, or they'd be swallowing rocks all the time. Unless they also go by scent. So much I don't know. Pondering as I type, and sit here on hold.
It's hard to stick to just frog talk... Anyhoo, can't wait to see updates and pics on new additions. I think they're the same type of tree frog discussed in a post that made me very sad/angry. So looking forward to seeing some being taken care of.

[kueluck]

Last night in the Whites Tree Frog tank 3 poops, all brown, all solid. They get their last dose of Panacur tonight.

[kueluck]

Guess I did the happy dance to soon. Tonight the poop isn't completely formed, but isn't runny like in the beginning either. It's also a nice brown and not the real light looking stuff either. I know it takes time for healing and tomorrow, first thing in the morning I'm taking in the 3 samples I collected today. I tried to be real quiet around the house so they wouldn't wake to early so I could separate them and know who was pooping what.
It was a successful gathering of poop, all samples labeled and including each frogs weight.

This all started back on 2-6-13. Here's how their weight has been going, in grams.

Shadrack Meshack Abendnego
12 to 19 4 to 14 4 to 12

[helm96]

They are adorable!

[kueluck]

They're always looking down in search of food. I think if I let them eat all they wanted in 10 min they would explode!! I saw something on Shads head and took a moist q-tip to wipe it off and Meshack came flying across the tank and tried to eat the q-tip. One day I was cleaning the tank, had on blue gloves and Shad was biting at the glove. Abendnego sees the tongs coming and will sit there with his mouth open waiting for dinner to arrive. Cute? Yes they are, but these little green gems just crack me up!!