frozen fish

[acovert]

If there are spiders on my bed, they probably came from under my bed, in which case, I would not be sleeping on the floor! I'd be on the couch!

There was one time my friend and I had been watching paranormal television shows in the dark in my room. All of a sudden I pointed to the floor and said "Oh my gosh!" It totally scared her. Then I added, "Look at the size of that spider!" There was a huge spider scurrying across the floor of my room. THAT was terrifying. I don't think we ever managed to kill it, either.

[EasternGirl]

All this talk about spiders and what do you know? A spider was crawling across my bathroom floor after I got off of here this morning. I hadn't seen a spider in my house in months. Just thinking about them is attracting them!

[acovert]

I think there may be a worm loose in the tank. Wonderful.

[EasternGirl]

A worm loose in the tank? Make sure you get it out of there as soon as possible. I don't know what you are using for substrate but if it gets substrate on it and Cuddles eats it, it could cause an impaction...very bad.

[guidofatherof5]

A worm loose in the tank? Make sure you get it out of there as soon as possible. I don't know what you are using for substrate but if it gets substrate on it and Cuddles eats it, it could cause an impaction...very bad.

In addition to that the worm might dry out. Garters will still try to eat them anyway possibly causing an impaction.

[acovert]

I'll get it out soon. Hopefully before we leave -_-
I'm not quite sure how it got out...the container has very tall sides and it was inside of it all day.

Edit:
I caught the stupid worm. It didn't make it far, and it wasn't out for long because it wasn't very dry. It's been washed and returned to the container. Hopefully it will stay inside of it. I've never had one escape before.

[EasternGirl]

Sounds good. I can't remember if I asked you before what kind of substrate you use?

[acovert]

It's Aspen Snake Bedding, for now. I want to change to bark, because it looks more natural. I'm careful about keeping an eye on him to make sure that he doesn't ingest any of it. If he would take food from tweezers or even outside of his tank then I would give it to him that way, but he refuses food if he's not inside the tank and completely alone.

I was going to switch to bark as soon as I got home, but apparently the local Petco doesn't carry it, even though the Helena one did >_<

[EasternGirl]

The only thing that worries me is that if he has to be alone to eat...he could ingest a piece without you seeing him. Even if the worms are in a container...garters often drag their food off of dishes and so forth and through the substrate. I just had it happen with two of my snakes...and Chantel just lost a snake because of an impaction from ingestion of substrate. Bark is actually just as dangerous for the snake to ingest...there really isn't an absolutely safe substrate. Some members lay dish towels down over the substrate when feeding. With two of my snakes, both who refuse to eat out of their tanks and do not like to be watched when they eat, I lay a paper towel down and then put the food on a little plastic lid under a hide for them on top of the paper towel...then I cover their tank with a bath towel so that they think they are alone...and I can peek under the towel to check on them while they're eating. Just some suggestions...I just want to make sure Cuddles doesn't end up with an impaction...it happens to so many garters.

One more thing about the bark...I don't know if Cuddles likes to burrow...my snakes love to burrow and I recently switched to bark and they don't seem very happy because they can't burrow anymore...so I'm switching back to carefresh.

[GarterGuy17]

This reason is exactly why I switched to paper towels , I actually kind of like it better because it use to look like it was tropical because of the color contrast it had. I'm thinking of getting repti bark but still planning on using paper towels for a while.