First, citing literature 40 years or over isnt exactly appropriate. Too often with your examples(I did look them up)never once cite a personal experience of this actually happening. Williams didnt do any stomach content analysis. These guys just take what someone else wrote and cite it....and carry the myth along. If you find a frog and a slug in the snakes stomach does it mean that the snake ATE the slug? Of course not. But thats not how past research was done. This is why passing on such misinformation is frowned on. Could it happen? Sure. If it happened to one snake in Montana should the guy in Wisconsin try it? Where will that info get you? A snake surely cant survive on such a diet so where is the arguement? A garter snake will eat a goldfish...and will continue to do so til it gets sick and dies. If you were lucky enough to have a infinite amount of slugs would they do the same? Good chance. In the wild they are more opportunistic, in captivity you manage the stress that is created by not offering these choices. Offering 20 different food items is not a good way to manage stress.

So if anyone has any experiece with said foods by all means pipe in. If there are specific personal notes on witnessed experiences please lets hear them as well. But lets agree to leave regurgitation and stomach content analysis out of this. I did hear someone got a baby milk started on canned TUNA a few years ago. I tried it, nada. Guppy? Was that a feeding response or suckered defense response? Only heard this worked once. Many successful breeders of hard to keep babies force feed then over winter babies to start out. Consider how many baby birds 3 adult milks will need.....even if they liked em. As far as I know they arent commerically available.

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