Hello from Hamburg!

[Thamnophis]

Hi Thor. Are your Natrix wild caught? If so, did you find it difficult to get them feeding? What are they eating now? Tell me everything!

I am not Thor, but have some experience with Natrix natrix...

We get every now and then Natrix natrix in our zoo. Always from the wild.
They start feeding as easy as most Thamnophis.
We feed them with a mix of:
Smelt
Other fish
Chicken filet
Chickenmeat with a piece of bone in it

[THOR]

Hello and Moinsen!

In Germany it is forbade by law to catch any reptiles or amphibes from the german nature. If you keep these species in Germany in terrarium, you have to declare them to the authorities (called: "Untere Landschafts- und Naturschutzbehörde") and you have to prove, that your natrix natrix natrix are not wild caught. For that you have to have a "Nachzuchtbescheinigung" .... a formless paper which is isued by the breeder and which says, that this reptile is born/slipped in captivity.

My natrix natrix natrix are all slipped in captivity. They were all feed with dead baby rats, baby mice and fish filet.
My last year own breed have been feed the first time only with fish and chicken hearts ... later cutted pieces of baby mice.

I keep my natrix in the same way as my thamnophis.

Greetz, THORsten