Hi. I found an artical on gartersnake.info that had me concerned. I have attempted several times (over several days) to contact the site owner with a quesiton but their contact form does not appear to be working. So I thought I'd copy/paste my question here.
my messagE:"I have fed "nightcrawlers" to my baby snakes in the past and now I'm concerned that I may not really be feeding them nightcrawlers. (On a side note I bought garter snakes so I wouldn't have to feed them mice. I used to have gerbils as pets and just don't like the idea of feeding mammal to a snake. and now am appalled to find out that the all or mostly fish diet I use may actually be harming them. I DO use supplements now - but it's hard to supplement a baby that will only eat moving things in a food bowl - and it's easier to put supplements on worms)
ANYWAY. right now so called European nightcrawlers are advertised everywhere as bait worms, composting worms, worms you can feed to reptiles etc. but... now I have discovered that they have the same genies (spelling?) name as red worms.
I was reading your article: http://www.gartersnake.info/articles/001634_feeding_earthworms_.phtml
and grew concerned when I discovered that red wigglers are Eisenia Foetida and European "nightcrawlers" are Eisenia Hortensis"
but I can't tell if any place sells the "Lumbricus terrestris" - and if I can use them in the worm bin I have (to raise)
So the question is... are European nightcrawlers ok to feed to garter snakes or are they really red worms in disguise?
Thanks for any help.
- Sharon"
Also if anyone KNOWS the person/persons who does that webpage- or if they post here - please let them know their contact form isn't working. Also if there is a another way (like a real email address instead of a stupid form email) to contact them - please let me know.
Thanks
- Sharon
