My New garters

[GarterGuy]

Well I've finally been able to expand the garter family. I picked up some Maritimes from Ben (aka:vwsrcool)...don't know the sex, but hoping for a pair. Also this past weekend I got a pair of "blue" garters at the Hamburg show in PA. They were sold as blue T.ordinoides, but think they might be blue T.s.pickeringi. Will have to wait for their first shed so I can do some scale counting. I'm hoping they are T.ordinoides...it'd be cool to have a non-sirtalis garter. So with out futher ado...here they are.:D

One of the maritimes....
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/Maritime_garterA.jpg

the other maritime..love the kind of pinkish hue they have, wonder what they'll grow up to be???
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/Maritime_garterB2.jpg

and an over head shot to see the patterns on them....very happy with them, even though they're not the nice green maritimes I've been looking for.
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/Maritime_garterB.jpg

[GarterGuy]

Now the blues...first the female, she's got tons of colour, but is a bit more greenish

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/Bluegarter_female.jpg

and the male, he's got a lot of blue on him, can't wait to see what he'll look like as an adult

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/Bluegarter_male.jpg

....now what else do I need?????:rolleyes:

[Stefan-A]

Gotta love those maritimes. :)

[Snaky]

Beautiful additions!

[Lulu Bennett]

they are beautiful new additions. really chuffed for you. you will have to keep us updated on the colour. :D

[ScimitarX]

Lovely little snakes, congrats on getting them.

[enigma200316]

Congrats....very nice.....:D

[Josh]

congrats love the maritime,
amazing blues
you have a wonderful collection:)

[hissy100]

Hmm. i dont think those are blue T. ordinoides

[adamanteus]

Lovely new additions, Roy!:)

[Sid]

Congrats, very nice additions:D .

[drache]

lovely snakes
congratulations

[vwsrcool]

nice pictures roy, im glad they are doing good! sorry i didnt see you in hamburg. the only garters i saw were checkereds and red spotteds, were where the blues you got? we were looking for some , my girlfriend wanted to get some. how are the easterns doing?

[GarterGuy]

nice pictures roy, im glad they are doing good! sorry i didnt see you in hamburg. the only garters i saw were checkereds and red spotteds, were where the blues you got? we were looking for some , my girlfriend wanted to get some. how are the easterns doing?

Hey Ben,
Yeh, actually there were quite a few garters at the show. The blues that I got were at Don Hamper's table. Every now and then he has some nice ones, one year there were some flames there, but a bit out of my price range. Also saw what I think were some young T.e.elegans as well and some baby T.p.rubrilineatus that were really temping. Figured though between the blues and the garters I got from you, better hold off for a while...LOL. The easterns are doing well, the one is a great eater, but the other one is still kind of off and on for feeding....at least it's eating something. Here's a pic of the one that is eating.
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//512/medium/Baby_Eastern.jpg

[vwsrcool]

hey roy, who is the guy thats making that cage for you? does he have a website?

[Zigmund]

I love the blue color

[GarterGuy]

hey roy, who is the guy thats making that cage for you? does he have a website?


It's Jungle Habitats Plastics....here's a link to his page....JungleHabitatsPlastics.com, Welcome! (http://www.junglehabitatsplastics.com/webstore/)

[GarterGuy]

Well today I'm happy to say that ALL my garter babies took scented pinky parts. Very happy....very good step for them to becoming longterm conpanions.:D Also my one pallidulus that wasn't eating, successfully was force fed a bit of trout fillet. Took him a bit to swallow it, but hopefully this will be the turning point for him. Going to feed him again tomorrow.

Roy

[adamanteus]

Excellent news, Roy!

[Serpentine99]

nice pictures roy, im glad they are doing good! sorry i didnt see you in hamburg. the only garters i saw were checkereds and red spotteds

I got one of the reg. checkered from that guy, but I really wanted to get the red spotted for $45.

[GarterGuy]

Well yesterday I'm happy to say that ALL the garters took unscented pinky parts. This is great, they're all doing really well and one is actually in shed right now (still even ate like a pig in shed!), so can't wait to see how he looks afterwards. I'm actually really surprised how easy this was, expeceted it to take much longer....but really happy it didn't.:D

Roy

[adamanteus]

That's great news, Roy.:) I love it when they make things easy for me!:D

[Elliot]

Congrats, I have one of my maritimes eating scented fuzzy parts, but the rest of the babies will only eat worms.:eek: Looks like I have some work ahead of me.:rolleyes:

[adamanteus]

Congrats, I have one of my maritimes eating scented fuzzy parts, but the rest of the babies will only eat worms.:eek: Looks like I have some work ahead of me.:rolleyes:

Look at it this way, Elliot...at least you won't get bored!!:D

[Elliot]

That's true. One of the easterns will sometimes eat fish, but none of the other snakes will, That just seems weird to me.

[adamanteus]

One of my tetrataenia won't touch fish......she gets all excited and investigates it, but just won't take it, as if her mouth is sewn shut!!

[Josh]

my easterns are soooo stubborn.
they just wont eat now.

[Elliot]

my easterns are soooo stubborn.
they just wont eat now.

What do you try to feed them? I know if I put live pieces of worms in there they pretty much destroy them before I can put my hand in there. lol

[GarterGuy]

Yeh, my one problem feeder eastern opened up and started eating really well after giving him some small worms. Less then a week later he's taking pinky steaks. I did end up loosing the one maritime that I was trying to force feed. So out of four maritimes and two easterns, I'm left with two of each. But at least the four I've got are well on their way now.:D

Roy