Thanks for all the help and advice, I really appreciate it!

Live mice... He shows up at the 9 min mark... Birth of Garter Snakes - YouTube He was a fuzzy when I got him, grew quite a bit over 2 weeks! I dumped oats in for him to eat, and he munched on the plant, and dug it up eating the roots. =/

Baby is doing well, I'm going to feed him a guppy or nightcrawler bits tomorrow. I'm guessing Mom came out of the ivy we have at the condos, they cut it in April, so I'm guessing her food source (mice) disappeared when they did that. We don't have any frogs or amphibious creatures around here... I have never seen earthworms come up with the rain either, but maybe we don't get enough rain for that. I bought a pinky just for size comparison to the baby (wow) and the mom ate it within a minute.

So my new concern is, being fed in captivity, do you think the baby would know how to hunt and find food in the wild if I release it? I'm kinda torn, he is so dang gorgeous!