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[Morbid]

They can eat salmon, and living good on it too, but the salmon has to be sprinkled with alot of calcium, and some vitamines. Strange that it did not feed on earthworms, it is often something that the species really like. They often goes totally mental, when worms is offered. Pinkiemice does work as well. But if you have the possibillity, try to feed it with frogs.
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[Drymarchon32]

I used to keep a lot of garter and ribbon snakes when I was younger, 5 species of Garter and 2 species of Ribbons) the best food was newts/slamanders and frogs for sure, worms went down really well too. I'm surprised its not taking worms, have you tried slugs or snails freshly de-shelled so they are still moving?
I realise some people will say that snails are great parasite vectors but they are great food and Garters are hardy little beasties. I also used to feed them live goldfish in the winter either placed in the water bowl so they could fish for them or just left flopping around in the enclosure. (This is probably the frowed upon that Fatboy mentioned) I was living in the U.S. at the time and had everything else i needed for food in the garden. Have you got a stream or pond nearby that you can collect fish with a net? Watch out for the bailiffs though Sticklebacks might be a problem with the spines so try to catch minnows and small Roach. (Its not like you'll be taking more than the population in the river can sustain.)
I agree with Peter, they are a really interesting group, some of the most amazing discoveries have been made about them in the last 20 years that so far appear to be unique to Garters.

This is a great article

http://ecoregion.ucr.edu/full.asp?sp_num=30

[FatBoy]

[FatBoy]

[Drymarchon32]

I was very lucky as a kid, I mean going through the american school system even for a couple of years was just laughable, but the stuff in my back garden was amazing. Used to catch frogs for the snakes in the garden "pond" but you had to be careful you didn't lose a finger or two to the snapping turtles
I'm not saying that everyone should go out catching food for their snakes but when in Rome.......
American herpetoculture has some greater freedoms than in the UK even though you should see the process you have to go through to get an Indigo snake in most states!
I have mixed views on American herpetoculture, could you ever imagine "Adder" roundups in the UK similar to the US rattlesnake round ups? I can't belive it still continues. If it was in the UK then people like us would be the "Hunt Protesters"

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[Muttley_109]

My Girlfriend (not my wife ) used to have pet rats and mice so she wont feed rodents to the snake unfortunately.
The only whole fish small enough i have found were pre packed and frozen. He would eat these but my car died and I havnt been able to get anymore. I did put some small live fish in his water bowl but he wasnt interested.
Im going to try worms again to see if he has changed his mind yet. Hopefully he wont be so stuck up and demand salmon and nothing else

[FatBoy]

[FatBoy]

[Muttley_109]

I have been dusting the salmon with nutrabal.
I did consider setting up an aquarium to keep fish in. But our animal room is full at the moment.
We are looking to move into a bigger house soon though so i may set up an aquarium then. A friend of mine works at a garden centre in the fish dept. Last time he gave me some small fish for free and he supplies another friend with fish for his piranha.

[FatBoy]