What do i feed my baby garter snake?

Question

Its a baby and i found it 2 days ago orange belly and brown top its a baby soo its 3-4 inches long What Do I Feed It Please Help i dont want it to die :[

Answer 1

worms/night-crawlers. You can usually get them from a fishing bait store, Minnows work as well when he gets larger

Answer 2

i'd start the little guy off with some pebbles then work your way up to aluminum cans

Answer 3

I don't think you have a garter snake. They usually have yellowish or whitish bellies and stripes going lengthwise down their body. You probably have either a red belly snake or a ringneck. You need to prooperly identify it before you can know what to feed it.

Answer 4

My husband brought home a baby garter to add to our othe HUGE collection of different snakes.  At first it would not eat.  So we bought some of the small feeder fish you can get from walmart for like 14cents a piece and would force feed him those.  Which it really wasnt forcing him bc as soon as he smelled it he would open his lil mouth and chomp down.  Then we bought some night crawlers which he'd tag with no problem.  The next thing we tried was getting a baby frozen pinky and rubbing the feeder fish on it to get its scent on the pinky and he ate that too.  SO you can try these things, BUT if he does not eat, please let him go back into the wild.  I do wish you luck!!!! Email me if you have any problems at [e-mail].

Answer 5

Why don't you just let it go so it can be free and not suffer because your selfish!

Answer 6

Getting baby garter snakes to start eating is hard. I’ve had some troubles getting the little monsters to start eating, and I think there were several reasons for this. For one thing, they’re too small for some of the more conveniently acquired food items, such as pinky mice or bait-store nightcrawlers. Some of them — my wandering garter snakes, for example — looked good and plump at birth, and weren’t hungry, probably due to retained egg yolk. Others had trouble recognizing what they were being offered as food, either because it didn’t move (they responded to live fish but ignored fish fillet and cut-up worms) or because they wanted to eat worms rather than fish or vice versa. Some baby garter snakes would eat anything I gave them; some were fussy; some refused everything I could find.

Answer 7

I know adults eat mice. Not sure about babies. might want to try grass hoppers or crickets. Maybe baby mice. Also, I dont think they eat anything thats all ready dead. Good luck