Monday = Swim day

[gregmonsta]

The sillyness starts here ... We decided to throw our garters in the bathtub today ... with interesting result ... Our scattiest snake, Clint (florida blue), is an absolute waterbaby and loves every second spent in water ... J (plains), who seems to have the lowest I.Q. , spazzed out and shot around the bathtub at speeds to make superman jealous ... and ... Slithers (red-sided), who is usually a calm, collected and rather intelligent snake, hated every moment of it - stayed on the hut we'd placed in the water for the majority of the time and .... even gave me his first lovebite ROFL .... anyway .... here are the pics.

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[gregmonsta]

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[adamanteus]

What do you mean, "J seems to have the lowest IQ"?:D How can this be?

[Lori P]

Omg how FUN!!! Great pics Greg!

[gregmonsta]

What do you mean, "J seems to have the lowest IQ"?:D How can this be?

Hehe ... well there's his passion for climbling the glass and falling over, his ambition to live behind the background in the viv and his unwillingness to accept that food doesn't have to 'fly' to be edible, of course :rolleyes:

Other than that he's your averagely fantastic garter ;) but he does have his 'special' moments lol :D

[drache]

that looks like super fun

[dashnu]

LOL, nice post!

[reptileparadise]

Wow...Must be cool to 'really see them swim'

[gregmonsta]

It's great fun for sure :) ... especially when you see them actually dive down to explore the bottom :D

[todaelaguadelmar]

They´re lovely snakes having lots of fun. grat pics. congratulations.

[jeanette]

awww so cute, does everyone have swim day with their garters?
im thinking about building a custom made viv for these guys since they like swimming so much, sorta half land half water type enclosure.

[Snake lover 3-25]

yup every time they eat!!!!!! it keeps them cleaner and in mu op less smelly!!!!:D

[jeanette]

very cool, im gonna have to have a swim day too now :)

[Snake lover 3-25]

yup you should get a toy wind up boat!!!!:D they LOVE to ride around on it!!!!:DLOL

[gregmonsta]

Make sure the water's at a nice temperature ... :P not 'human-warm' or 'british cold' lol :D

[jeanette]

yup you should get a toy wind up boat!!!!:D they LOVE to ride around on it!!!!:DLOL
hahahaha now that i gotta see :)

[jeanette]

Make sure the water's at a nice temperature ... :P not 'human-warm' or 'british cold' lol :D
lol ok like umm tepid? or slightly warmer than that :confused:

[Snake lover 3-25]

okay!!!!

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BTW i use about hand temp water and they seem fine

[jeanette]

hahahahahaha thats such a cute picture . i love it :) how old is that gater on the boat?

[Snake lover 3-25]

um.......... hmmmmmm...... few months?????????? yeah i think the boat was 7in

[jeanette]

are they good swimmers from birth? ithe more i find out about these little cuties the more i love them :)

[Snake lover 3-25]

i think so..... but they are sooooo cute!!!!!

[jeanette]

awww i love them, my husband wont let me have a swim day NOW because its 11:29pm here. rofl
im being impatient now :D

[dashnu]

Welp, My garters just had their first swim day! Thanks for the idea they seemed to love it!! I am editing up a quick video I took now..

[Snake lover 3-25]

awwww i wish i had a video!!!!:(:(:(:DLOL:D

[dashnu]

ok, sent this over to "the moms" house for my girls :p for those of you that have three minutes to kill :rolleyes:

YouTube - Thing One & Two, Garters Bath Time. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6-Tb0UM-4c)

[todaelaguadelmar]

It´s a lovely video, thanks for sharing. i enjoyed it.

[Snaky]

Great pics, I love the video! :D

[drache]

that was fun too
I'll have to try that some time
I have this big tub I put in the tub when I give Henner (the beardie) his bath
it's almost as big as the bathtub itself and it's just his, so I don't have to worry about soap residue in his bath - or conversely, residual dragon poop in mine
I'm sure, Henner won't mind lending it to some snakes now and then

[anji1971]

Brett, I LOVED that video!! :cool:
I've been wanting to try to make one, but I have a feeling I'd seriously muck it up if I did.
How do you set the video to music like that? Do you just play the music while recording or add it later?
I haven't given the snakes a bath day in a long while, other than Chili, who got one a couple days after we found her. I'll have to do it again soon!

[jeanette]

great video dashnu :) :) :) :) :)

[Lori P]

Well, I tried last week to get some pics for this month's photo contest but my guys were NOT having it... LOL!!! So here was their swim day-- I propped a flat rock up on two smaller rocks in the tub--

Oh my god!! She's trying to kill us!!!
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Mordecai is the big Puget... Reed is the big ribbon... Miriam is the little Puget, getting ready to shed... and Curious is the little red spot.{Reed, Curious is staying so little!!}

Don't anyone move-- and don't touch the wet stuff, it's poison!!
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Reed finally got brave, swam under the rock and poked up on the other side--

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LOL, silly snakes!! Maybe if I give them a chance to swim once a week it won't be so traumatic for them...

[Snake lover 3-25]

LOL cute!!!!!! have they ever swam b4?????

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

how are the pugets blues coming along? also curious is a red-sided

[drache]

how cute
those a great pictures
I'd be afraid I'd drop the camera into the water
Lori I have a male who is staying really small compared to his age mates
he's an '06 parietalis and my '07 radix is close to catching up with him
Reed is so handsome - and really long