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Josh
08-17-2007, 08:01 PM
this thread is a thread to help people when buying snakes,
Dont buy from Exotic Reptiles For Sale! (http://www.reptilesncritters.com/index.php)
they cant even get the names right

ssssnakeluvr
08-17-2007, 09:02 PM
I have seen them before...what a joke..never heard of a gartner snake!!!

Josh
08-17-2007, 09:06 PM
checkered garter t sarutis??

zooplan
08-17-2007, 11:41 PM
Thats quit normal in German pet shops:(
Most garters a offered only as garters not as their speci.
Once I saw a beautiful "Florida Blue" signed as T. a. atratus(Santa Cruz Garter Snake)

Stefan-A
08-18-2007, 02:22 AM
The biggest local chain refers to garters snakes as "Thamnopsis" on their homepage, order them from the importer as "T. sirtalis similis", and although they called my latest snake (parietalis) a "T. similis", they were honest enough to sell it as a Thamnophis sp. when I asked them if they knew the species. I personally consider the clerks more professional than the chain as a whole.

drache
08-18-2007, 04:25 AM
our local store just calls them garter snakes too
but two of the sales clerks know me well enough to ask me stuff
I expect more from people who sell over the internet because one cannot see or handle the snake before purchasing
of course this expectation in not often met
when I do buy from internet sellers I don't know, I try to get some email dialogue going to get some sense of the person before I commit to a purchase
I also use the BOI on faunaclassifieds.com - with a couple of grains of salt
(I've bought from people who had bad feedback, if the person with the complaint seemed like an idiot)
it's always taking a chance though

GarterGuy
08-18-2007, 11:01 AM
Guess I'm pretty lucky around here then, my local petstore is very good at getting common and genus/species pretty much on the money. Guess it doesn't hurt that the pres. of the local herp society works there too...and he's into garters as well.:cool:

Roy

ssssnakeluvr
08-18-2007, 08:27 PM
hmmmmmm......I haven't seen a garter in a pet store here in Salt Lake City for years.......I bought the last pair I saw, ordinoides at a petco....we have some good local stores and some crappy ones...