He eats 6 to 8 live minnows a week. I read the post below about how to switch him from fish to pinkies - should I do that?

Although it won't affect the tail issue, I recommed you switch it over to pinks. I have kept Checkered Gartersnakes on several occasions and they always ate rodents, even right out of the wild.

If your snake is large enough to eat a pinkie, I would suggest offering it one. You might need to put some fish slime on it the first time, but they readily eat rodents of the appropriate size.
The advantage is that they can eat rodents less often than you feed them fish, you can order frozen rodents and always have them available, and their cage will sure smell better!!


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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

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