Minnows?

[Spankenstyne]

A way that has helped me in the past get stubborn feeders onto fish pieces that will eat worms, is to cut the worms and fish into bite sized pieces and mix it all up.

[brain]

I know they should be avoided, but I can't find anywhere that carries Guppies!! Fancy guppies, sure, but no feeders.
Since they aren't as bad as goldfish (right?) it's OK isn't?

I can't find anything wrong with Mollies and Platties. Try those. Like Wayne said trout is very easy to get.

[infernalis]

I had a couple really stubborn Radix that insisted on live fish, so I cut strips about an inch long and held the end of a strip with hemostats and jiggle the fish piece around to emulate live fish movement, they took the fish for me after that.

[d_virginiana]

Thanks for all the advice! I'm going back home soon, so I'll try some of these suggestions

[Didymus20X6]

I'm trying to get Scarlet used to taking all her food from tongs. Live worms, fish, frogs, etc. I figure if she starts to associate the tongs with food, eventually, I can switch her over to tilapia strips without much hassle.

Little Dude, however, will not normally take food from tongs unless she is really hungry. And even then, only live food.

[RedSidedSPR]

New problem.
I found feeder guppies, but... they're tiny. Too small to feed my adult. And even If I did feed them to him, they're 10 for $2. I'd have to buy, like, 30, to feed my adult.
Is there a good enough supplement, that i can supp. the minnows and feed it to him?

(paranoid now after seeing that new thread)

[guidofatherof5]

Supps. will not stop the damage the thiaminase does.

Will they eat fish fillet, Salmon, Trout, ect.?

[RedSidedSPR]

Haven't tried. I will though.. sigh.. I love watching him catch live fish.

[Didymus20X6]

The best thing, I have found, is to vary the diet. Don't feed them an abundance of minnows, if you have to feed minnows at all. I feed mine minnows, but I change it up with nightcrawlers, and I make sure the nightcrawlers get a good intake of B vitamin rich food before giving to them to the snakes.

Keep in mind, in the wild, snakes don't subsist on a diet of just one type of food. Garters eat a good variety, including fish, worms, frogs, rodents, and other reptiles.

But so far, I haven't been able to get mine to eat anything not live. Pinkies, frozen/thawed fish, etc., I can get them to poke at them, but not eat them. So either I have to feed them some minnows, or the subsist entirely on worms. And Little Dude will only eat so many worms before she gets tired of them.

[guidofatherof5]

Keep in mind, in the wild, snakes don't subsist on a diet of just one type of food. Garters eat a good variety, including fish, worms, frogs, rodents, and other reptiles.

I must ask which other reptiles?