Forum: Husbandry

Hello everybody, I would like to know if the platies and Xipho are good for thamnophis. (I think yes because there are from the same family of...

Tonight, while feeding a group of babies, I notice my Iowa albinos out. I hadn't reached their enclosure yet but offered a piece of worm to one of...

hi, i want to know if the molly fishes (live) are a good food for a garter snake? if the chemicals in the anti-chlorine solution are toxic for the...

They say it's not necessary, or beneficial to provide full spectrum/UVA/UVB lighting for snakes, especially those that don't generally bask, or those...

Honestly I have to say that trout mixture is not the perfect food !!!!! I know that this recipe is good at some point and it not!!!! I was the...

I've been trying out a need procedure here at the Ranch and it seems to have paid off. A week ago I posted about my girl Charlotte(female radix) and...

I put my two garters down for brumation a while ago; however, after I re-inspected them, I decided it would be best if I took them out early. I did...

I try to feed my snakes as varied a diet as possible. I rotate from, worms to f/t mice to salmon. I feed one of them for a 2 week period, then switch...

this prolonged unseasonable warmth is beginning to be an issue and I am seriously considering putting my brumating snakes all the way outside,...

:rolleyes: ... well, none of the potential brumators are on the cards for breeding next year .... should I still brumate regardless just to get my...

Hi All. Our Lovely Sugar the eastern garter snake is not eating. Things to know to advise me: He has eaten nothing for three weeks, and since...

I found a baby eastern garter a couple days ago. It's about 6 inches now. The cage has a heat rock and plenty of places to hide. The promblem is...

Hi all... I have some lovely little valleys from Don, and I need to keep them in a very small enclosure for a week or two. I will be unable to...

We've had two babies die. I'm nearly having to force feed one or two of the remaining five babies. (I hold a wiggling guppy by the tail and keep...

I started feeding my baby garter snake with worms i found then got some frozen pinky mice and cut those up for him and he's not picky at all and took...

Does anyone else have snakes off food? I've got a number of my breeding females(radixes) doing just that. Feels to me like it did last year. Only...

Tonight, while feeding a group of babies(radixes) that were given to me, I spotted a little one in trouble. This wasn't just one of the babies but...

I've kept and bred Nerodia for quite some time, but never have bred Thamnophis of any species before, although I've had the odd Garter now and then. ...

After building a habitat - 10g tank, plants, water, hidey hole - for an unknown variety of garter snake my little one insisted on keeping.:D Well,...

Now that the "sick-season" has arrived, I was wondering whether it is possible for my snakes to get sick from me. Can snakes catch different forms of...