Is my one year old garter not growing fast enough? (pics)

[xStatic]

[QUOTE=guidofatherof5;219084]

Thanks for the clarification.

I also think you could feed a little more food. Young snakes are growing machines and need the fuel.

Sounds good. Should I try to add another half a pinky or earthworms? She's never eaten Tilapia before but I could try adding that to her meals.

[guidofatherof5]

You could switch off between the worms and tilapia. Pinkies, worms and tilapia would be a very good diet.
All 3 items have a lot of good to bring to the table.

[indigoman]

All my checkerds like talapia but some still prefer worms if given a choice.

[xStatic]

Yeah my snake likes the worms the most and will lung towards them when I offer them to her. She also likes pinkies quite a lot but I've never gotten around to giving her tilapia because I thought worms and mice provided enough nutrition. I will pick up some tilapia though and if she will eat it I'll add it to her diet.

[mikem]

I'd feed her at least a whole pink once a week and some worm every few days.

[Invisible Snake]

I think you should feed her more, a small pink every 3-4 days, that's what I did when my albino checkereds were around 5-6 months old.

I've read in a couple of garter books that the young need to be fed more often because of their growing development.

[stevenrudge]

For a normal healthy snake its small for its age,worms are not good enough for a young growing snake,you must up the food intake to at lest twice per week.fish based diet (plus pinks if you must)multi vitamins every other feed,and the snake will be fine

[kibakiba]

Worms are good for young snakes, especially when the diet is varied. My varied diet snakes grow faster than my nonvaried diet snakes.

[stevenrudge]

when their diet is varied,problem is for this snake the diet was not varied nor was it fed enough,

[EasternGirl]

I have an albino checkered male who is almost a year old...and I would say that she is a bit small...especially since females are usually larger than males...Hermes is bigger than your girl at 11 mos. I feed Hermes a whole pinky or the equivalent in fish and worms every 5 days. That is a whole small pinky. I would start feeding her a bit more.