My lazy baby garters want to sleep all day and not get no job!

[MNGuy]

How long have you had them? Are they actually sleeping or just staying very still?

My eastern was super active and out all of the time as a baby. My radix hid a lot and was not very active. Both were and are fine. Sometimes it’s a personality issue, although you should rule out environmental causes.

Good luck.

[Elisabeth83]

I’ve had them now about 4 days. I believe the one I got from Morph is a Florida Blue hybrid. Not sure about the local one, but he looks like he could be a western terrestrial or black necked. Now that you mention it, I’m not very sure if they are sleeping or just staying really still. They usually just coil up together and lay there, with a few short random bouts of activity throughout the day, then they find each other again and cuddle right back up and sit around for a few hours. It’s so cute! But I’m not sure if it’s normal for them to be such lazy babies. New to this.

Their environment: They have heat and light during the day, at night the light goes off but I keep their heating pad on at the left side of their tank. They have lots of damp moss and shredded paper on a bed of dry paper towels, fake plants to climb on, and a little snake hutch with moss to hide in but they rarely use it. I change their water daily. and give them some spritzes two or three times a day. I hope I’m doing everything right. Maybe I just have some little snakes with very laid back personalities? Idk.