Garter snakes are fun little things to keep, but can have feeding issues of their own. Being so tiny as babies, finding food they can eat can be a challenge. My friend Herb had a big litter of garters last fall and tried to give me some (very tempting, so cute!) but I declined, as the feeding would have involved getting the very tiniest little fish for them. I am pretty competent at raising mice, lizards and crickets, but fish is out of my area of expertise. I do now have a kiddie's play pool full of tree frog tadpoles I retrieved from my pool this spring cleaning, and I suppose the garters could eat those.



The other thought I had about hatchling snakes and getting them to start eating is be patient; I don't think any healthy young snake is going to purposely starve itself to death, and will eventually eat if the food is small enough. Even a newborn pinky is quite large for a tiny pyro. Some of my older pyros will not eat anything bigger than the diameter of their heads no matter how hungry they are. Even my pituophis prefer smaller size food, not humongous food they have to struggle to swallow.



I currently have a couple of baby pyros that just shed a few days ago, and the rest of the clutch is due to shed as the days go on, and so far the first two have not eaten their scented lizard pinks yet, but I am not too worried. When they hatched they had really big yolk reserves.
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Bob

Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

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