PLEASE HELP ME!!!--WHAT DO GARTER SNAKES EAT?

Question

I HAVE A BABY GARTER SNAKE THAT IS ABOUT 6 INCHES

THE PET STORE I GO TO HAS CRICKETS OF ALL SIZES

???WOULD CRICKETS BE GOOD FOR THEM TO EAT???

PLEASE HELP ME !!!! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

Answer 1

crickets would be okay,but garter snakes eat fish in the wild you can put them in its water dish or in a small gold fish bowl very small with branches going up to the top so it can climb in

Answer 2

Crickets aren't good because they can't digest the shell.  At that size, guppies would be okay, and earthworms that are tiny or that have been cut up.  Pet stores sell feeder fish (guppies, rosies, goldfish) at about $1.00/dozen, and you can dig in your garden for the worms (or find an area that hasn't been sprayed with pesticides).  If you have to buy worms, bait stores have the huge nightcrawlers, so you might end up having to cut them into smaller pieces.

When she gets larger, you can giver her larger feeder fish and worms, but it's better to supply pieces of trout or salmon.  Feeder fish can have parasites and are not the healthiest diet for a garter.

When the garter gets bigger, live or frozen pinky mice can be fed to her.  

I have a very finicky garter snake right now who will only eat earthworms, so you may have to try a few things to find out what she will eat.

Answer 3

small -medium crickets will do good for him while they are young. when they grow up they can eat bigger items little adult crickets, and roaches and maybe even a pinkie(baby mouse)

Answer 4

A garter snake is any species of North American snake within the genus Thamnophis. This type of snake is found throughout many different areas, and they have a very varied diet.

The snake you have could be of any one of dozens of species of garter snake, so I can't tell you exactly what it eats, becuase different types of garter snakes eat different things (the type of garter snake depends highly on where you found it and what state/country you live in.

Their diet consists of almost any creature that they are capable of overpowering: slugs, earthworms, insects, leeches, lizards, spiders, amphibians, birds, fish, and rodents. When living near the water, they will eat other aquatic animals. The ribbon snake in particular favors frogs (including tadpoles), readily eating them despite their strong chemical defenses.

While you -can- raise and feed a garter snake, it really is better off in the wild, as it is a wild animal...just let it go, and it'll take care of itself very easily. Baby snakes have to care for themselves from the moment they are born.

Garter snakes, like all snakes, are carnivorous.

Answer 5

yea it probly shoudl be also small fishes they eat to so try fedding it that

Answer 6

It can feed itself. Let it go..it belongs in the wild.

Answer 7

noo...feed it small fish like middows or guppies...if you want it to feed goldfish then feedit in case of emergancy....

Answer 8

My suggestion is that you disregard any answer suggesting that garter snakes eat crickets- because they don't.

A 6 inch garter will do well on a diet of earthworms, and occasional small minnows.

Here is a caresheet that's pretty good:

http://www.gartersnake.info/care/