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Garter Snake Care Sheet |
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By:
Carl Bumstead
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nocturnal, semi-terrestrial/aquatic, carnivorous ~
Size: Florida garter snakes usually get to be about
3 ft but sometimes larger
Life Span: About 10 years in captivity
Housing: About 3 adults can live in a 10 gallon
aquarium, Juveniles are about 5-6 inches long and are easily
housed in a plastic container but are best kept in a 10
gallon tank.
A large water dish is the best to use because they like to
curl up in it. put a piece of PVC pipe in the tank for a
hide, and you can keep their cage at room temperature if you
live in florida, and room lighting is adequate.
Substrate: Sand is good but bark, astroturf, and
paper towels work too.
Feeding: If it can take down lizards, take a pellet
gun and shoot a lizard's head off (Catching them
other ways work well also, but these may harbor unwanted
parasites. Buying CB anoles is a healthier alternative.
Nick.) and hold it by the tail in
front of your garter's face and it should take it, and if it
does not starve it for 2 weeks and it should then, but if it
does not take it after that buy or catch tadpoles, goldfish,
or guppies and put them in the garter's water dish.
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