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The crazy thing to me is that are 2,000+ views on this post alone, so the issue isn’t that people aren’t interested—it’s that they don’t get engaged. They don’t...

I keep two garters in a 40 breeder bioactive tank, and like the size a lot.

My 2 cents:

2. establish a drainage layer composed of low weight approximations of gravel, (several varieties seem to...

For fish, I feed my garters silversides sold at the big box pet stores. I have not tried the other fish you listed.

People do feed garters chicken hearts. I'm not sure how well they would do with...

I hear you. It's unfortunate that these forums are dying out. I find them to be a better source of information than Facebook, and it archives threads well, which Facebook doesn't do at all.

This...

I'm on the Facebook groups, too.

Who are all of these people who click on threads but don't respond? What do they get out of that? I wasn't expecting to so many people to click on this--44 views and 0 responses. I assumed everyone...

Why is this forum so dead? It's a great resource, and I'm sad to see it so underused.

I see threads here with 1,000 and close to 2,000 views but only 2 or 3 actual responses.

I hope people can...

I don’t know what weights are good at certain ages, but I’ve raised four babies and they all grew slowly. It took a few years for them to get to a decent size.

That’s not even a proper analogy.

I keep two garters in a bioactive enclosure and it’s super clean. Yes, you need to spot clean when you start out and wait for the clean up crew to reproduce, but...

I keep my garters and terrestrial newts in bioactive setups with dried leaf litter only. I've never tried using fresh leaves right off the tree, and my quick research online does not yield any...

Thank you!

Not at all. It’s bioactive. Every now and then I have to pick out a huge poop but most of the time the clean up crew takes care of it. It doesn’t smell bad when they poop, which is a huge relief. I...

Thank you!

Just some photos of my erythristic flame eastern and regular plains garter snakes pretending to be tree boas.

Welcome! Do you keep any now?

This is an old article from last year studying garter snake cliques, but I just came across it today:...

They have never stopped eating in the winter. They might eat slightly less at a time (3 silversides vs 4 silversides), but that’s it. And I’m in Minnesota.

Great. Thank you.

Hello All,

I'm considering adding a t. marcianus and was wondering what their temperaments and personalities are like. I know each snake is an individual, but I've read about some species...

That's really cool. I totally believe that.

My eastern and plains garter are very arboreal in the limited height of their 40 breeder. I stack cork rounds and branches and they are very adept at...

I would suggest releasing it back into the wild. It's not doing well in captivity and should not be subject to conditions that are detrimental to its health. Do that right now while the weather is...

Take her to a reptile vet ASAP. That should always be one of the first steps when a pet's health starts to falter, especially body condition.

Please stop trying to self-diagnosis the issue and go...

Cool. It might be worth doing some research on bioactive forums (I belong to a good one on Facebook -- bioactive setups for reptiles and amphibians, or something like that) about mixing different...

I went bioactive when both of my snakes were about a year old and it's been great. Mine have not tried to eat the isopods or springtails. I use zebra isopods so they're pretty big. I don't think...

If you feed them both at the same time never leave food alone in the tank unattended. They could eat each other. I recommend tong feeding them or feeding one in a separate container. I've snakes go...