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[BlackroseUK]

Hello. I am Adelle, and I joined in the hope of finding a local breeder in my area of south wales as I am looking for a garter snake.
I am engaged, soon to be married and live in newport gwent in a flat with my partner Steve (i may refer to him as Jen from time to time) and I care for him as he is a home hemo dialysis patient so I treat him and do all his needles and stuff.
I own a zoo.
2 cats
2 axolotls
1 bearded dragon
16 fancy rats
2 chinese hamsters
2 ferrets
1 crested gecko
3 baby Giant african land snails
10 tarantulas (one sadly died yesterday) :'(
and a dog and two goldfish at my rents house.

Looking forward to meeting you all and pls let me know if you have any cheap garter snakes you can deliver to me in my local area. thanks :)

[adamanteus]

Hi Adelle, and welcome to the forum.:)
I'm sure you will be successful in your search for a Garter in Wales, as we have a couple of Welsh kepper/breeders on the forum.

[scorpio]

Hi,

I hope you'll enjoy the forum here. You've got really a zoo at home. I think it's very nice.

[Snaky]

Welcome from Belgium, hevr fun here :)

[BlackroseUK]

thankyou :) who is a welsh breeder from wales on here?

[adamanteus]

Chloe and Inge (CrazyHedgehog) are both from North Wales. I believe Inge still has 2007 babies (Red sided and Florida Blue) available at the moment. Good luck.:)

[Sid]

Welcome to a great forum, Adelle. Plenty of helpful members here if you have questions before getting your Garter.

[Sputnik]

A very warm welcome from me, too, Adelle! Good luck with your search, I'm sure you'll find a lovely garter snake soon. :)

[BlackroseUK]

thankyou. i am looking for a breeder in or around newport in s.wales

[adamanteus]

Sorry Adelle, I think North Wales is as near as you'll get on here... but it's not so far away!:D

[Sputnik]

Newport isn't too far away from me, about 45 minutes drive, but sadly I won't have any babies until possibly next year. We are planning a forum camping weekend near Cheltenham in the summer, I can always take delivery of some babies then, if you can collect them from North Wiltshire somehow.

Have you checked the reptile shop in Newport?

[anji1971]

Hello, and welcome! Good luck with your search, Adelle!:)

[enigma200316]

Hello, and welcome to the family of Thamnophis...............:)

[Stefan-A]

Welcome aboard, Adelle. :)

[tikichick]

Howdy from Texas, glad to have you on the forum :) Sorry about your tarantula, though.

[Odie]

Hi, from Oregon, Adelle :)

[salzar]

warm welcome from across the pond...
this site it great!!!! bye
michelle

[osubeaver22]

Welcome to a great, friendly forum!

[Zephyr]

Hello! :P
Welcome from Michigan. :D

[CrazyHedgehog]

Hi Adelle, sadly north and South Wales have about a 5 hour drive between them, its actually quicker to get to London from here. As James said, I still have a few common and anerystic plains (no florida blues, greg had the last one!! Although the male is still doing his thang in there...so you never know!!)
I will be coming down to Cardiff late April for a hen weekend...see if you are still after one then, we could possibly arrange a meet? how far are you fro Cardiff? do I pass Newport on route?

[tikichick]

May I jump in and ask, what is a "hen weekend"?

[adamanteus]

It's like a 'stag-night'.... only for the girls.... great fun if you can 'crash' one!:eek:

[tikichick]

LOL, oh ok! Too funny :D

[GarterGuy]

Howdy and welcome to the forum Adelle.:D

[gregmonsta]

Welcome ... :) glad you came over for a look.

[drache]

welcome to the forum, Adelle
nice collection of critters

[bigboss081]

Hi im new too....well just hoping you get those garters that you want. Goodluck!

[GarterGirl]

Welcome Adelle!

[Serpentine99]

Welcome to the great forum Adelle, I guarantee you'll enjoy your stay here.

[mycolorfulheart]

Welcome to the forum! You have a great family of pets. :-)
Just a question to all the UK/European members--are there garter species local to your region?

[adamanteus]

Just a question to all the UK/European members--are there garter species local to your region?

No. They're imports or decendants of imports. Thamnophis is only found in the Americas.

[Stefan-A]

No. They're imports or decendants of imports. Thamnophis is only found in the Americas.
Do we count populations decended from escapees as decendants of imports? ;)

[enigma200316]

No. They're imports or decendants of imports. Thamnophis is only found in the Americas.


its a little ironic don't you think, there only here and you have to import them to get'em over there, but here we can't get tetra's or should I say have tetra's and over there you can........I'm going to go cry now thank you.................;):D

[mycolorfulheart]

I read an article a lil while ago about how many species were transfered from old world to new to old. The america's didn't originally have honeybees! or earthworms. And tomatoes aren't native to italy.

[Serpentine99]

Earthworms were imported??? Talk about a successful colonization!

[anji1971]

Thank goodness for that.............a good portion of my snakes' diet would be missing without them!!:D

[Serpentine99]

One of the few good stories you hear about foreign animal colonization. Usually theres major loss of native species, famine, hybrids, etc...

[mycolorfulheart]

actually it was a national geo article from a year or so ago; it said that one of the reasons european colonizations worked was because they bascially destroyed the environment and agriculture the native americans needed to live. the earthworms destroyed a lot of underbrush, and livestock trampled all over their fields for which they had no fences for because there had never been livestock in the americas before. Interesting stuff, very different from what they teach in history class!

[Stefan-A]

Sorry to rain on your parade(s), but it's not entirely accurate. Earthworms weren't imported, not all of them. I'll just copypaste the rest from wikipedia.


A total of approximately 182 earthworm taxa in 12 families are reported from America north of Mexico, i.e., USA & Canada, of which 60 (ca. 33%) are exotic/introduced. Only two genera of Lumbricid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbricidae) earthworms are indigenous to North America while introduced genera have spread to areas where earthworms did not formerly exist, especially in the north where forest development relies on a large amount of undecayed leaf matter. When worms decompose that leaf layer, the ecology may shift making the habitat unsurvivable for certain species of trees, ferns and wildflowers. Currently there is no economically feasible method for controlling invasive earthworms in forests. Earthworms normally spread slowly, but can be quickly introduced by human activities such as construction earthmoving, or by fishermen releasing bait, or by plantings from other areas.
Earthworm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthworms#North_America)