BP Snacks...Any Such Thing?

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Originally Posted by hhw

None of those snakes should be eating fish.

Snakes aren't people and they don't need snacks. Attempts to treat snakes like people instead of snakes can only result in incorrect husbandry. Now, I'm not at all one to say that snakes should be kept a particular way, but I don't think there's any logical basis for giving snakes snacks. If you want to give a pet a treat, give it to your dog, not your snake.

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Just a note i thought i'd add. Alot of different garter snake owners and care sheets reccomend feeding minnows as their sole source of diet.

maybe they were minnows and not goldfish i didnt really take a good look

Garter snakes are suposed to eat fish. Rat snake *can* occasionaly. Pythons and Boas NEVER!

Anyways, i think you need to go to your friends house and check out his husbandry, he's obviously doing something WAY wrong for his snake to be 3 1/2 ft.

thats rediculous. a 2yr old burm is only 3.5 ft? my boa is longer than that and only about 7months old. your friend needs some serious help, and shouldnt have a pet snake since he obviously dont know how to feed it

Yea! That snake should be like 10-12ft.! Thats disgusting how you can malnurish something so much.

crash23, your BP should be bigger than 2 1/2ft. I think your BP should be like atleast 3ft. at 2 years.

good point, rex, who barely eats 1 adult mouse a week is like 30in, but i have no idea how old he is. i hope this is just a troll, cause not feeding a snake is just plain sick let alone not feeding any animal.

I do too. whats a troll?

someone who just makes stuff up to make people mad basically, at least from what i understand, and since they havnt responded, im thinking they are, but i dont really know so we will see what happens

Hey! Before we rush into assumptions, maybe we need to take a step back and think for a second. Everyone isnt a troll, and it is not very nice to label someone before they get a chance to expalin themselves. The burm isnt even his snake. You havent heard about his setup, if the snake is exactly 2 years old, if its a rescue, what he feeds, how often he feeds, and a whole host of other things. He came here with a valid ( allbeit an interesting ) question, and the two of you have proceded to rip him apart. He hasnt fed his snake goldfish yet. As for not responding yet, not all of us are able to check the site more than once a day. Before you jump to conclusions, how bout giving the guy a chance to respond.

This site is made up of individuals that have come together to form a community. This community is represented by our members, and it doesn't look good on the rest of us when a few are continuously slaming eachother on how they take care of their own animals. The job of a responsible keeper is to figure out what works for them ( within the constraints of not being cruel to the animal ), and make sure the animal stays healthy. I've seen a trend in our community lately where we are too quick to jump all over someone and take the "No You're Wrong and I'm Right" stance. My grandmother used to say "Thats why they make blue suits and brown suits". As long as the animal is healthy, whats the problem. There's more than one way to do everything in this world and I, for one, am always on the lookout for new ideas and suggestions in this hobby.