How to Take Care of a Garden Snake
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Turn on the heat lamp every morning
Turn on the heat lamp and ultraviolet light every morning when you awake. Snakes are reptiles, so they are cold-blooded and they need warmth to begin moving around. - 2). Give your snake fresh water each morning. Water sitting under a heat lamp can get disgusting pretty fast.
- 3). Offer the snake some food a couple of times a week. Garden snakes enjoy minnows (put them in the water dish), amphibians (small frogs and toads), grubs and worms.
- 4). Remove feces and uneaten food from the bedding daily when you water the snake.
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Hold the snake daily
Hold the snake daily, if possible. Attention will help calm your snake as it becomes used to you and realizes you are not a danger. When garden snakes are afraid, they emit a strong odor as a defense mechanism. Holding the snake frequently should help eliminate this defense. - 6). Clean all of the bedding out of the reptile cage once a month or so. Clean it when it starts to smell, the bedding is more than half-gone from scooping out feces and old food, or you cannot remove the feces and old food.
- 7). Soak the items in the habitat--food, and water dishes, sunning rock, stick, and hiding hut--in water with a little bleach when you clean the bedding out of the habitat. Wipe down the inside of the habitat with a cloth that was soaked in the bleach water as well.
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