Not a garter but a colubrid

[Tora]

Momma seems to eat a variety of invertebrates, including the occasional cricket that gets through the screen lid. Slugs appear to be her favourite, with tadpoles in at a close second. She snarfs down food and is getting used to my handling her. I tried baby anoles with her, since the cuban brown anoles are everywhere here, and she is not interested. I guess worms and slugs are her preferred food.

The eggs are looking great. I just candled them last night and all of them appear to be good. They all have veins and you can see the embryos now!

[Rushthezeppelin]

Momma seems to eat a variety of invertebrates, including the occasional cricket that gets through the screen lid. Slugs appear to be her favourite, with tadpoles in at a close second. She snarfs down food and is getting used to my handling her. I tried baby anoles with her, since the cuban brown anoles are everywhere here, and she is not interested. I guess worms and slugs are her preferred food.

The eggs are looking great. I just candled them last night and all of them appear to be good. They all have veins and you can see the embryos now!

I wonder if those guys have the enzymes to digest chitin. I know garters don't, but not sure about other colubrids.

[d_virginiana]

I wonder if those guys have the enzymes to digest chitin. I know garters don't, but not sure about other colubrids.

I think ringnecks do, but insects are only recommended as a staple for very young ones... Other than that the only other North American colubrids in the pet trade at all I know of that can digest chitin are green snakes.