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Feeding records for my male melanistic eastern garter snake....
Michael

June 12th, 2004 - Mel. ate 2 f/t nightcrawlers
June 14th, 2004 - Mel. ate 1 nightcrawler
June 15th, 2004 - Mel. ate 2 worms
June 16th, 2004 - Mel. ate f/t nightcrawler
June 17th, 2004 - Mel. ate 1 worm
June 18th, 2004 - Mel. ate 1 f/t nightcrawler
June 19th, 2004 - Mel. ate 1 f/t nightcrawler
June 20th, 2004 - Mel. ate 2 f/t worms
June 22nd, 2004 - Mel. ate 1 nightcrawler
June 23rd, 2004 - Mel. ate f/t nightcrawler-scented pinky
June 24th, 2004 - Mel. has blue eyes
June 29th, 2004 - Mel. shed, ate a f/t nightcrawler and a nightcrawler scented pinky
July 1st, 2004 - Mel. ate 1 f/t nightcrawler-scented pinky
July 3rd, 2004 - Mel. ate unscented pinky mouse
July 4th, 2004 - Mel. regurgitated pinky(too hot!!??)
July 8th, 2004 - Mel. ate unscented pinky
July 9th, 2004 - Mel. ate unscented pinky, he has fully switched over
July 10th, 2004 - Mel. ate pinky
July 12th, 2004 - Mel. ate pinky
July 14th, 2004 - Mel. ate 2 pinkies
July 17th, 2004 - Mel. ate 2 pinkies
July 19th, 2004 - Mel. ate 2 toads
July 20th, 2004 - Mel. ate 1 small f/t worm
July 21st, 2004 - Mel. ate green frog
July 28th, 2004 - Mel. shed and ate pinky mouse
July 29th, 2004 - Mel. ate frog
August 2nd, 2004 - Mel. ate fuzzy mouse
August 4th, 2004 - Mel. ate fuzzy mouse
August 10th, 2004 - Mel. ate frog
August 17th, 2004 - Mel. ate fuzzy mouse
August 25th, 2004 - Mel. shed
August 26th, 2004 - Mel. ate fuzzy mouse
August 27th, 2004 - Mel. ate 2 pinky mice
September 12th, 2004 - Mel. ate salamander
September 14th, 2004 - Mel. ate fuzzy mouse
September 21st, 2004 - Mel. ate 2 pinky mice
October 6th, 2004 - Mel. ate a nightcrawler
October 14th, 2004 - Mel. ate pinky mouse
October 19th, 2004 - Mel. ate pinky mouse
November 19th-24th, 2004 - Mel. ate 5 rosy reds
December 17th, 2004 - Mel. entered brumation

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Wow, nice records. I do notice that it seems you feed very often, are those pinkies and fuzzies relatively small for the size of that garter? I'm sure you know what you're doing.
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Matt from Minnesota
Cornsnake, Eastern Kingsnake, IL Bullsnake - all girls.
0.1 Crested Gecko "Camey"; 1.0 Crested Gecko "Spots" RIP

Hey, a couple people mentioned to me about how I was feeding it alot. I was basically feeding him whenever he was done digesting his last meal. The first time he started eating pinkies, the pinkies were quite big compared to him, and then he had a pretty big growth spurt. A couple of the fuzzies he ate were oversized, some pinkies were too small for him, the size of the mice varied alot. I'm glad that I did feed him that often, or he wouldn't of had good weight going into brumation, due to the fact he was skipping meals for weeks at a time.

Mike
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