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.