Depending on how small of a snake they usually prefer to eat pinkies (baby rats/mice). You can buy them online or at petco but buy them FROZEN put them in water to dethaw an your baby gopher snake will be happy
Most rat snakes prey heavily on rodents, but they also eat frogs, lizard, small birds, small chicks and eggs.
Western fence lizards love ants, and also will eat small crickets. If its a baby, get pinhead crickets. Do not feed it any food longer than the space between its eyes, or it could become impacted and die.
Peacock spiders eat baby crickets and "other small prey". In mating, the female may eat the male.
No, it is a myth that baby snakes can't control their venom. All reptiles are born from day 1 with instincts. But usually, the adult is more dangerous than the baby because the adult has a larger venom gland & can inject more venom.
What do small (as small thumb nail) eat? they eat meal worms, fruit flies, and small crickets
No - they feed on rodents - NOT crickets !
Baby garter snakes will not eat crickets, but i now that they will eat small or cut up worms.
Gopher snakes have a varied diet - including... small mammals (mice, rats, & rabbits), birds (and their eggs) and lizards. Juveniles prey on small lizards, frogs, and baby mice.
pinky mice or baby crickets
Most rat snakes prey heavily on rodents, but they also eat frogs, lizard, small birds, small chicks and eggs.
Actually, yes, there are some snakes who eats crickets. There are many snake breeds who are too small to even eat pinkie mice, so crickets are another good way for snakes to get nourishment and not starve. A few of these snakes include: Green Whip Snakes (Who also eat other small insects) Several species of Shovel Nose Snakes Green Grass Snakes As well as Northern Brown Snakes, but I do not know if they can be have as pets.
Small mealworms and small crickets.
Young milk snakes typically feed on a diet of slugs, insects, crickets, and earthworms. An adult's diet includes lizards (especially skinks), and small mammals. They are also known to eat birds and their eggs, frogs, fish, and other snakes.
gardner snakes eat dugs and small baby snakes
Tarantulas in the wild feed on any small animal they can get their fangs into. This includes beetles, crickets and other small insects, right up to rats, birds, frogs and even snakes or other tarantulas. In captivity most are fed on crickets, and once they are big enough, introduced to baby or "pinkie" mice/rats.
Baby garter snakes will eat small earthworms and live fish or tadpoles.
crickets and pinkies (small pink baby mice)