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    Re: Newbie

    Quote Originally Posted by dekaybrown View Post
    Our local petco has one snake enthusiast, he is always a pleasure.

    I told him "I got an Infernalis" (Verbatim) and he perked right up and said really, I have never seen a California garter in person.

    He probably won't work for petco long
    Cool!! I wish people around here were like this.
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    Re: Newbie

    Quote Originally Posted by Peet View Post
    Was it a Petco? Cause around here, I think Petco hires the people the DMV rejects.
    Good luck with that rainbow Jerry.
    The "Petsmart" I go to for the minnows must hire from there too. Except one guy that is alright. He does know a little bit about snakes & always gives me a few extras when he bags up my order

    No Rainbows yet..My rosy boa should drop soon too. Any bets on who goes first

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    Re: Newbie

    On my second feeding try, I thought at this point the garters would willingly take larger guppies (I bought two dozen and only one has died so I need to do something with them). After taking a minnow from my finger, one of the garters eagerly approached a guppy I was holding out - tongue flicked it, and recoiled...and then took another minnow when that was offered. Bizarre. I've never seen a garter that not only didn't want to eat guppies but was actually repulsed by them while eagerly accepting other fish. I guess infernalis are just different.

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    Re: Newbie

    Peet, I like to freeze my guppies in an ice cube tray- a few guppies per cube. That way I always have them on hand, and dont have to take care of them. I just slowly thaw them out in cold water, since fish spoils easily.

    My infernalis has now taken 2 consecutive meals of guppy-scented extra small pinkies. I havent actually given him a real fish yet, but he sure goes for the guppy smell.

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    Re: Newbie

    Quote Originally Posted by Loren View Post
    Peet, I like to freeze my guppies in an ice cube tray- a few guppies per cube. That way I always have them on hand, and dont have to take care of them. I just slowly thaw them out in cold water, since fish spoils easily.

    My infernalis has now taken 2 consecutive meals of guppy-scented extra small pinkies. I havent actually given him a real fish yet, but he sure goes for the guppy smell.
    I froze a bunch of minnows (and vacuum sealed them first for extra freshness). After one more big minnow meal I'm going to try minnow scented pinkies. I'd feed the guppies to my other garters but I don't want them back on fish. The fish store is close to work but far from home, so I guess at some point I'll just run all the guppies back to where I got them after work (have to keep them at work all day). Too much of a waste to just flush them!

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    Re: Newbie

    Or just put them on your sandwich!

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    Re: Newbie

    ewwwww!!!!!
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    Re: Newbie

    Whats the matter, you dont like bread?


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    Re: Newbie

    sounds like a wise crack an old army buddy used to say....."I'd tell you to eat poop (not the exact word) sandwiches but you'd probably tell me you don't like bread!"

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    Funny


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