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LeapinLeo
03-30-2007, 10:00 AM
Hi,
I'm new here and I was wondering what type of garter snake morphs are your favorites? I might be getting one soon. Thanks for your input.
adamanteus
03-30-2007, 12:01 PM
Hi LeapinLeo. Welcome to the forum. My particular favourites.... Anything beginning with Thamnophis!!!
Stefan-A
03-30-2007, 12:06 PM
Welcome aboard. :)

Favorite morphs or favorite species?
Cazador
03-30-2007, 12:08 PM
Hi LeapinLeo,

I really like black and red snakes, particularily T.s. concinnus and T.s. infernalis. Since we can't own T.s. tetrataenia in the U.S., I try not to think about them too much. Like James said, though, there aren't a whole lot of Thamnophis that I don't like.

Rick
drache
03-30-2007, 12:27 PM
Welcome to the forum, Leo
That's the biggest drawback about being into Garters. There so many beautiful ones, it's really quite a dilemma . . .
adamanteus
03-30-2007, 12:29 PM
we can't own T.s. tetrataenia in the U.S

Whereas I can, and will!:p
Sid
03-30-2007, 01:14 PM
Welcome Leapingleo. I have both Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (Eastern Garter) and Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus Oregon-Red spotted. I love them both, but the Red-spotted of mine are easier to handle and accept a more varied diet much more readily than do the Easterns.

Sid
Serpentine99
03-30-2007, 01:59 PM
I love Puget sound garters, especially the blue morph.
Thamnophis
03-30-2007, 02:56 PM
In this moment I think my Thamnophis hammondii are the most beautiful.
But next week... who knows.
adamanteus
03-30-2007, 03:09 PM
Fons, you have T. hammondi? Will you be breeding from them?
Thamnophis
03-30-2007, 03:28 PM
Yes, I have a pair. Bought them last year from a Dutch breeder.
They are still young, born in 2006. But my plan is certainly to breed them in a few years.

One of them...

http://www.kousebandslangen.nl/hammondiifoto%27s/Thamnophis_hammondi_female_juvenile_01.jpg
adamanteus
03-30-2007, 03:32 PM
Beautiful! Put me on your list of buyers! I'll collect them when I come for Maximus!!:D :p
Thamnophis
03-30-2007, 03:33 PM
You're number one on the list.
adamanteus
03-30-2007, 03:36 PM
That's a great photo too Fons...I bet we'll be seeing that one in the monthly competition soon!
Snaky
03-31-2007, 05:16 AM
I really like th. cyrtopsis cyrtopsis, maybe also because they are my first garters. But like everyone says, there is so much variety and most of them are really beautiful.

Welcome from Belgium:)
GarterGirl
03-31-2007, 06:58 AM
I like all garters. It's hard tø decide, but I think my favorites are Plains and Red Sideds.
GarterGuy
03-31-2007, 08:44 AM
Howdy and welcome to the forum!:D Favorite garter...huh....that's a hard one. If I'd have to pic a subspecies....I'd pick T.s.sirtalis (Eastern Garter), just for the simple fact that they come in soooo many different colours and sizes that any thing I'd want I'd be able to find with them.
Roy
LeapinLeo
03-31-2007, 09:07 AM
I want a flame morph of garter snake. Do different morphs have like different tempers or are they the same?
KITKAT
03-31-2007, 02:09 PM
Not sure about morphs being different, but the species and subspecies do seem to have different "personalities".
GarterGuy
03-31-2007, 02:41 PM
Also temperments can really differ from individual to individual. Best bet, get a captive bred animal that's fairly young and you should end up with a really nice tempered snake. Having said that, my little Petra (my female T.s.concinnus) always bites me every time I go into her tank, and I've had her since she was a hatchling. Go figure! Think she's just an over zealous feeder and not really mean.:D
Roy