After three meals, I am puzzled

[Char361979]

Hey Chris! When are you going to give the wife a chance to post??

It keeps him out the way. While he's waffling on at you lot, he's not waffling on at me. We have many computers in the house.

[snakehill]

That works!!!!!!!!

[Serpico]

Update...

Last saturday, quite depressed, I grabbed internet and ordered earthworms to an italian company from up north.
I am not going to reveal what I paid for them, because you'll all believe italians are thieves (and you would not be very far away from the mark..), the earthworms arrived today, I checked if they were real earthworms and not red wrigglers, I believed they were the former, I considered that for almost ten years I have given my very first couple of garters every kind of "worm" sold by the fish equipments shops, I crossed myself, I removed the female from the viv, and started presenting one fat worm to the male.
Nothing, not even a flick of the tongue.
I presented it with long tweezers, I made the worm wiggle, I put it just in front of his nose. Nothing.
I then left the worm alone in the viv with the snake; in 15 minutes I had to fish back the worm, which had done his job, burrowing into the substratum.

I took the snake and put in into a smaller container, together with the worm, I left them alone for about one hour.
Nothing, at the end, the worm was there untouched.

My old couple made earthworms last about 30 seconds, any place I put them into the viv, they smelled the food and rushed for it.....

Now the garter is back in the terrarium, hiding somewhere with the female, the worms are in a capacious container with fresh earth, and I do not know what else to do.

In the past 10 years and so that I had garters, I have never had these kind of problems, ever. I told my son that garters were easy snakes to begin with, and now he looks at me and asks me what is going to happen, and I have to tell him "I do not know"...

[guidofatherof5]

You may have to cut up some worm chunks and scent it with salmon until they acquire the new taste.

[RedSidedSPR]

Was gonna say the same thing. Chop 'em up with whatever else he's eating.

[Serpico]

I am sorry to say that he has eaten salmon once ONLY, then refused that fish too, the next time I gave it to him.

Now I think that scenting one type of food with another could be something to try, but I do not store much hope in it, possibly because, apart for that one time he tasted salmon, he has refused everything else, the following time, and salmon too.

Tomorrow I'll try scenting salmon with worms..at worst, the female will eat them....

[RedSidedSPR]

What DOES he eat?

[Serpico]

What DOES he eat?

Aquired him and the female on the 25th of september, ate one chunk of salmon ffillet after one week in the new home.

So it has last eaten approx. 15 days ago.
In the same time the female has eaten salmon, trout, small fish Atherina Boyeri, salmon again.

[katach]

Have you tried anything other than fish and worm? Maybe try a slug or pinkie.

[Serpico]

Have you tried anything other than fish and worm? Maybe try a slug or pinkie.

I have some hopes with slugs, I mean, finding them, coming autumn it should not too difficult to find them, and regarding pinkies, coming saturday i'll definitely go buy some.