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Vitamin Supplementation for Garters

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I was wondering for all of you garter snake keepers out there do for vitamin supplementation when you feed your garters fish/worms? Do you take reptivite and dip a part of the worm or fish into it then offer it? or do you do it another way? just curious to see what methods people have done before. Thanks!
 
No need to give vitamins to any snake. lizards and tortoises are different, but snakes do not need vitamin supplementation
 
I agree, not necessary as long as they are getting entire animals (ie fish).

However, to answer your practical question, in the lack of a regular supply of entire prey animals, I did supplement for a while. I packed reptavite power inside chicken hearts and offered those. It wasn't garter snakes, but I guess it could also be done with dead fish.
 
The hope would be to get the garters on mammals and off (or at least in addition to) the fish.

Ive kept garter and I have always put them on goldfish until they were old enough to switch or at least eat mice pinks. Then either feed both or full diet of mice
 
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