Animal |
Food/Water |
Notes |
Miscellaneous |
| Pythons | one/two mice every two weeks. Keep water pan full with clean drinking water. | They will usually feed every two weeks in the summer but will slow down to once a month in the winter. Use bark for substrate. Avoid wood shavings and corn cob products. Keep humidity up for proper shedding. | Gernerally when snakes are hungry they will be searching around the tank and will be very active. |
| Kingsnake and gopher snake | one mouse every two weeks. | (same as pythons) | (same as pythons) |
| Cornsnake | one small mouse every two weeks | May slow down to once a month in winter. | (same as pytnons) |
| garter snake | five or six goldfish once every two weeks | May slow down to once every three weeks in winter (or may not slow down at all) | This is a secretive snake and you may not see it searching around for food. Put goldfish in a deep finger bowl. Just feed on schedule and if it doesn't eat the goldfish in a day, feed the remaining goldfish to the turtles in the larger pond. Our garter snake lives with the turtles. |
| Bearded Dragons | fruits and vegetable and crickets or other insects. Water. | feed every two to three days | May slow down a little in the winter. Clean cage and change water as needed. |
| Box turtle | fruits and vegetables and occasionally worms or small insects. Water. | every two to three days | (same as bearded dragons) |
| Tiger salamander | four or five crickets or pieces of worms, or small worms | every three or four days | Change water once a week. Moisten ground every four or five days. |
| Turtles | dry food, goldfish, lettuce or spinach. | dry food to float on surface every three days. Goldfish every week or two depending how many are left in the pond. | The "pond" portion of the tank needs changing once a week. |
| Tarantula | four or five crickets or other insects. Water in shallow lid. | once a week. | May slow down to two or three weeks in winter |
| Blackwidow | one cricket | once every week or two | Lift glass container slightly and slip a cricket in the bottom. Blackwidows are poisonous but are not agressive. |
| Walking sticks | fresh rose leaves on cut stems | once every week | Keep stems in dish of water to maintain freshness. Clean cage as needed but do not change entire substrate. Change small portions of the substrate only when needed. |
| Cockroaches | fruits, vegetables, crackers, bread, goldfish flakes. Will also eat dead crickets. These are scavengers. Keep humidity up. Water |
once every three or four days. | food and water needs to be changed often because mold tends to set in fairly rapidly. Substrate needs to be change once a week. Use vermiculite, small bark, or shavings for substrate. In a pinch you may use potting soil. Keep towels or log in cage for them to hide under. |
| Millipedes | vegetables such as potato, celery, carrots, beets, etc. | Keep supply available at all times. | Millipedes are active and eat at night. They burrow and chew holes in their food and then return to the potting mix to burrow around and sleep. Sometimes they may be found under or in a potato piece - be careful you don't throw them away! |
| Legless Lizard | small crickets, mealworms | once a week | keep soil moist but not soaked |