[GarterGuy]

Variety is always best. The mouse diet is one that allows garters to exist on a food source that is easily controlable and available. Unless you breed your own worms or fish, you really don't know what you're getting a lot of the time. There are businesses that are completely devoted to breeding high quality rodents for reptiles. As far as amphibians, in the wild I think this is a HUGE component of garter diets. The only problem is getting good, parasite free supply of amphibians. Also have to consider that with the way global amphibian populations are crashing, do you really want to be going outside and gathering frogs or toads for a snake that is just as happy with mice? I feed my snakes a diet primarily of mice and supplement with fish fillet, rosy reds or other thiaminase free fish and my own captive earthworms.

Roy