Garter snake food - fish questions.

[krystalirelan@southslope.]

try your smaller independant pet stores. these will usually sell live pinkies. Or you could raise your own. we did this for a while when we 1st got our corns, it's fun and fairly cheap but mice tend to eat thier young and our dog teanded to eat the mice so we had to stop.

[KITKAT]

I get my frozen pinkies at the monthly herp show in town.

[Lee]

try your smaller independant pet stores. these will usually sell live pinkies. Or you could raise your own. we did this for a while when we 1st got our corns, it's fun and fairly cheap but mice tend to eat thier young and our dog teanded to eat the mice so we had to stop.

Found one that has live pinkie rats/mice, in the mall of all places.. Breeding is not an option, no point in breeding something that I don't want near my house for a single snake lol. Last year my snake got some wild mice that had come into our shed.

KitKat, he likes live prey. I can get frozen all day for cheap, but he's a wild snake and I think he enjoys live more.

[stonyloam]

Hi Lee: I tried native fish (bluegills) a long time ago and found that you have to be careful with them because they can be very aggressive toward each other, so you may have to limit the population and keep fish of approximately the same size. You may have to add one or two at a time to see how they get along. You might try a small bullhead or two, the small ones are pretty interesting. There are some pretty cool little darters that live in lakes under rocks in the shallows that might do well, stone cats too, and a school of fathead minnows might give you a food supply for you snake too. You have to be careful with crayfish, they will grab sleeping fish for a late night snack. Anyway good luck.