Garter Snake

Subject: Garter Snake Sat 11 Jul 2009, 5:13 am

Someone found a garter snake at work and guess who ended up with it...

Ive never owned a snake before. Can someone give me some pointers???

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Subject: Re: Garter Snake Sat 11 Jul 2009, 10:24 am

nice!
i have a western ribbon snake, which is almost exactly like a garden snake
ok
put it on eco earth, and give it some wood to hide on/under
then give it a big plate
then put water in the plate, then put small goldfish in it
i heard that garden snakes could eat pinkies, but mine never touches them

Subject: Re: Garter Snake Sat 11 Jul 2009, 11:04 pm

A better pic of the new one.

Egg Posts : 9 Join date : 2009-06-24

First off revolt kid there is no such thing as a garden snake it is a garter snake. And second i would honestly reccomend just letting it go, it most likely came from the wild and garter snakes aren't very good, or cool pets. If you want a snake get something cooler like a type of boa or python, or a colubrid like corn snakes and kingsnakes.

But if you decide to keep it, I would put it on aspen with 2 wooden hides one on each side. Give it a water dish, and you can either feed fish, nightcrawlers, or pinkies to older ones. Don't feed goldfish though they can carry parasites. I would stick with guppies.
Hope this helps

Subject: Re: Garter Snake Tue 14 Jul 2009, 10:35 pm

It would have been a great help, unfortunately the snake passed on last night despite all efforts to save it. Like my husband said, it must have been injured to have ended up crawling into a Walmart store to begin with. It seems the automatic doors gave the poor thing a compression injury. Yesterday morning we noticed she could not move the last 4 inches of her body. Upon feeling it there was a large hard mass and discolored belly scales. Judging by the color I would say it was internal bleeding. She passed quietly surrounded by all of us in a sink full of warm water. (Her head was kept out of it)

Subject: Re: Garter Snake Tue 14 Jul 2009, 10:50 pm

so sorry to hear that sage

Subject: Re: Garter Snake Wed 15 Jul 2009, 1:04 am

Me too, but at least it didnt get mauled by an animal while it was unable to defend itself.

Egg Posts : 9 Join date : 2009-06-24

Why did you have it in warm water?

Subject: Re: Garter Snake Wed 15 Jul 2009, 11:02 pm

Because despite everything we had done it was getting so cold.

Subject: Re: Garter Snake Fri 17 Jul 2009, 4:06 am

Really nice snake. good size too. Really nice of you to keep it. I would of done the same. As for advice I'm not the person to ask. For an iguana I'll hook you up on info! LOL Anyways post new pics on it eating and let us know how it's doing in the future

Subject: Re: Garter Snake Fri 17 Jul 2009, 4:11 am

adam'sfarm4900 wrote:: Really nice snake. good size too. Really nice of you to keep it. I would of done the same. As for advice I'm not the person to ask. For an iguana I'll hook you up on info! LOL Anyways post new pics on it eating and let us know how it's doing in the future

Unfortunately there will be no more updates, the little guy/gal passed away.