this little one has been separate for a few weeks, and they've all been fed in separate containers from the start
because of my great fear of feeding accidents, I never feed my babies in groups - I'd probably need something like psych meds to live through it
in my early days of garter keeping I used to feed three babies in their enclosure, and I'd hear my blood whooshing like the pneumatic brakes of a city bus, and my heart banging with huge loud booms - it was just too stressful
so they each get their own container with their very own selection of food, and there is never any confusion over who ate and who didn't
after their feedings they get sorted into groups according to food preferences, and after that I work on expanding their repertoire of acceptable foods
with previous litters from this pairing, the preferences have been for salmon and pinky - only once have I had a worm eater from them
in this litter it's mostly worm eaters, not a single one interested in any kind of fish, and the one slammed the pinky like s/he were ready to kill it if it hadn't been served thawed from the freezer - nothing offered prior had even registered as food
go figure
this litter was born more than six weeks ago http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/bree...e-garters.html