I caught a small garter snake, and am now housing it. What should i Feed it?

Question

The snake is aprox 8 inches long, with a head approx ahlf the size of a thumbnail. thanks.

Answer 1

I found one in the wild brought it home and it made a great pet and lived for 8 years. I put a bowl of water in the aquirium the first day and went to the pet shop and bought very small feeder gold fish and he went right in the water and started fishing and eating and we fed him goldfish for 8 years. They love small gold fish.

Answer 2

LET IT GO YOUR DOING IT MORE HARM THAN U KNOW

ok for starters u clearly dont know how to care for it or anything about if u want any pet do your research first then get the pet

keeping wild caught snake is cruel and immoral many die just because of the stress and other get ill easy and die due to a lower immune system caused by the stress or ebing snatched from the wild.

those that survive almost always have lower immune systems, stress related illnesses and or behavior disorders. taking a snake from the wild is cruel to the animal environmentally reprehensible and in a lot of places illegal. put it back before it you kill the poor creature. learn what it takes to care for a snake and get a captive bred one  

Answer 3

Let him go, unless he committed a crime worthy of imprisonment. Did you supply him with an attorney ?

Answer 4

GARTER SNAKES DON'T EAT CRICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why do people think they do? They eat fish and frogs and occasionally worms. Also, don't feed goldfish as another person suggested. They are very bad for snakes. Find rosey reds from the pets store or minnows from a bait shop. If it's big enough to eat pinky mice, rubbing fish slime on them will often get them to eat them. And an 8 inch garter snake is not close to being full grown as another person said.

Answer 5

Here's a copy of a link from The practical pet care site that should help you.  http://www.pet-care-experts.com/archive....

Answer 6

It sounds pretty much full grown. They don't get very big. I suggest that you release it. Wild snakes don't do very well in captivity. Especially with they are grown. If you do decide to keep it then you should do a search on the internet and find out the size container they need, their eating habits, how often they eat, what temperature and humidity they like, etc... I looked into the whole reptile keeping thing once and it's a lot of work. It took a lot of time and no little money when I did keep them. Reptiles have no ability to control their body temperature so you have to provide them various temperature ranges within their tank. That's why people have snakes in long tanks. You can have a heater in one end (light, rock, both) and usually the water bowl is in the other end. You can use a plastic dog water bowl. These are good especially for a small snake like your talking about because they have two holes in the side for a person to put their fingers in and set the bowl down for the dog. The snake will craw in and wrap around the plastic holding the water when they are hot and if they're really hot they will get in the water. You need to go to the pet store and get two of the stickers that read temperature in fish tanks and stick one on either end of the tank closest to where you think the snake can get closest to the heat and cool. Usually by a rock or stick under the heat lamp and by the water bowl on the other end. If their isn't a big enough difference in temp then you need to get a longer tank. It should be glass to help hold in humidity. I can't remember the name, but it's some kind of ometer that measures the humidity. You should try to keep it at the humidity and temp level the snake like. You can achieve this by misting the inside of the tank with a cheap water bottle several times a day. If it's still too low you can but some plastic over the wire mesh top to the tank, but never cover more than two thirds or enough air won't get in. As far as feeding I would imagine you could go to your local pet store and get some crickets or feeder fish. Put the fish in the water bowl. Just two or three not much bigger than it's head. If you go with crickets then you'll need to get a vitamen poweder and coat the crickets. I used to save an old betta food container and would put the crickets and powder in it and shake them up to get them coated well. Don't put on too much. While they need it, my lizards never liked it and would sometimes spit out a cricket covered too heavily and went after the least dusted ones first. Good luck.

Answer 7

Peanut Butter

Answer 8

let it go where you found it...snakes found in the wild tend to have all kinds of parasites.  garter snakes don't cost that much at reptile shops (maybe 10.00 or so).  if your parents are letting you keep the snake only because you found it don't tell them you let the first one go and bought a new one.  just be sure to thoroughly clean out the tank before putting the new snake in.  

Answer 9

crickets. dont get the live ones though because [1] they're gross and [2] they might actually scare the snake.

Answer 10

feed it small fish from a shallow bowl.

Answer 11

Have you tried rosys(small red fish) or crickets?

Garter snakes eat those and also pinkie mice.

Hope this could help