Baby garter ate another baby

[Yonner]

I feed them in a separate enclosure and individually. There wasn't any food in the cage at the time.

[guidofatherof5]

I feed them in a separate enclosure and individually. There wasn't any food in the cage at the time.

There may have been some leftover scent. Garters have an awesome sense of smell.
Feeding accidents are always a terrible thing.

[Ameivaboy]

There may have been some leftover scent. Garters have an awesome sense of smell.
Feeding accidents are always a terrible thing.

This happened to me a few years ago.
I was feeding babies like this



Then would reintroduce them to the community cage as soon as they got them down. Which resulted in this at one point.





This saddened me very much. The Concinnus was the prettiest one from that litter and was going to be a holdback. I was able to get the concinnus out of the pickeringii alive, but it died the next day.


Nowadays I let them sit for about an hour before re-introducing them.
Havent had an issue since.

[Yonner]

That is a very sad picture indeed. I've been feeding mine and then returning them back right after, but now that the two are separated it won't be an issue.

The snake eat snake incident happened between feedings, where they had fed the previous day and would feed the next or so.