I try to work pinkies into my banded and broad banded water snakes' diet but I'd be reticent about feeding your banded pinkies 100% of the time. They are water snakes and their natural diet consists mostly of fish and amphibians, not mice. Granted, water snakes are opportunistic and will eat rodents, but it's not a 100% of the time thing.

It is a lot easier to feed pinkies though, I'll admit. However, I'd use the pinkies as a supplement to a diet, i.e. once a month, with fish being the main part of their diet. As for difficulty of feeding, my broad banded water snake, who happens to be a lot more aggressive and a great deal smarter that the other one, has absolutely no problem with eating pinkies. My banded, on the other hand, absolutely refuses to eat pinkies, even after I put the pinkie in a partially gutted out goldfish. It depends on how aggressive your snake is, really.

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