Eastern Blacknecks

[MoJo]

I finally have some photos of my favorite garters!

I did not take a new photo of Tiger since I don't think I can beat the ones that I already have! She is a huge girl at just under 3 feet and could probably down an adult mouse but I won't give her anything larger than a hopper or a weanling. She produced 12 babies this year. I could not get 2 started and they are at Wayne's house along with one of only 3 males in the litter.

The father of all the Eastern Blackneck litters for the last 3 years is Billy Bob. After a good musking and a few bites this is what we could get!
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Billy_Bob_8-17-10.jpg

And finally my beloved Cheetah died last year and by chance I had held back one of her daughter's from her only clutch. Well I bred Cub back to Billy Bob and this last weekend she surprised me with 3 live born, one baby that never absorbed the yolk and did not make it out of its sac and a bunch of slug soup! I am thrilled with her babies and I hope that they will eat as well as Tiger's brood has been eating. Here's Cub.

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/Cub_8-17-10.jpg

[Snakers]

Very nice snakes!

[MoJo]

Here are two of Tiger's babies from this year.

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/10-8_Billy_Bob_X_Tiger_1.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/10-8_Billy_Bob_X_Tiger_2.jpg

[MoJo]

And finally here are Cub's 3 little ones.

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/10-9_Billy_Bob_X_Cub.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/10-9_Billy_Bob_X_Cub_2.jpg

[Snakers]

That one in the middle in the second pic is incredible!

[MoJo]

Thanks! Let's hope she'll eat, she's the runt!

[guidofatherof5]

Very much awesomeness (I know it's not good grammar)

[infernalis]

Thanks Joanna... Here are mine.... The plumper looking one is the male.

http://www.thamnophis.us/snakes/new/bn1.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.us/snakes/new/bn2.jpg

[MoJo]

Thanks for posting the photos. I hope those girls eat for you. They were not interested in my fish!

[Ameivaboy]

They are very pretty :)

[infernalis]

No interest in minnows yet here either. Going to go gather some alternate foods tomorrow.

[Spankenstyne]

Very nice indeed!

[sirtalis01]

if you could get your hand on some cricket frogs youll get them to feed....they love them...good luck wayne

[infernalis]

baby toads ;)

[justme]

Hi everyone! I purchased a beautiful pair from Joanna and received them yesterday. Today, I fed them both in a little feeding bin together with some pinkie parts scented with pacific tree frog slime and threw in some live guppies. They both ate it all including pinkie parts (perhaps the frog slime helped). Good luck Wayne with the trouble feeders and thank you Joanna! You are an awesome person to correspond and deal with and I am so grateful to have my new little babies!

Here is a pic I took of one of Mojo's babies right after being fed. ;-)

http://i33.tinypic.com/2d1ppg7.jpg

[sirtalis01]

WOW that a nice pic......

[MoJo]

Yay Karen! I am thrilled they took pinky parts already. I fed the remaining 7 I have from that group tonight and 3 took pinky parts with their fish. I was thrilled.

I have a second group that I tried to feed but they are not interested and since they were only born last Sunday it is still very early.

Love that photo Karen!

[guidofatherof5]

Beautiful snake, Karen.
That snake has a full belly. Happy snake.:)

[infernalis]

They all ate today.

Several bullfrog tadpoles each. ;)

[justme]

Thanks Steve, Julio, and Joanna. I like the pic too! ;-)

And Wayne, that's fantastic news! Sounds like all of Joanna's beautiful babies ate well today! ;-) And now we can all sleep good tonight! Hehe.

[ConcinusMan]

Gawd, those are awesome. Hope to have some for myself someday.

[MoJo]

Yay Wayne! I am thrilled the other two ate. I hope they pan out for you and then you will have 1.3! I knew the boy would eat, he was one of my first eaters. I bet if you put tadpole mush on pinky parts he will eat that too!

[infernalis]

Yay Wayne! I am thrilled the other two ate. I hope they pan out for you and then you will have 1.3! I knew the boy would eat, he was one of my first eaters. I bet if you put tadpole mush on pinky parts he will eat that too!

I hope it pans out too, I was blessed to find any small tadpoles at all in the middle of August & during a dry spell with all my mud holes dried out but one.

[drache]

I am so wanting some of those I can't even bear to look

[jitami]

I'm with you, Rhea! Such gorgeous snakes! Cub's baby with the thicker dorsal stripe is amazing! Hope she eats for you soon. I love her!

[gartermorphs]

I realy hope you get that one with alot of yellow eating!

[MoJo]

Me too! He is yours if he does. I will need to recheck his gender though!

[gartermorphs]

lol i hope your better at it than me i dont want another mystery litter of baby snakes!:D

[Scott F]

Hey Joanna,

Congrats on the babies, they are very sharp !

Scott
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[MoJo]

Thanks Scott.

[MoJo]

All the babies but one female is eating. I even have one taking only scented 1/2 pinkies.

[infernalis]

All three of my babies are taking guppies readily now.

They are all alert and active.

[justme]

My pair are doing great and both are eating cut up, unscented pinkies. They never miss a meal and both have already shed! ;-) Some more pics of my lovely babies from Joanna.....
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[justme]

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[kibakiba]

Beautiful snakes, Karen! They have such cute, innocent looking faces :D

[infernalis]

Your photography is very nice Karen...

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, some people make it look so easy.

I agree though. Awesome photos and very awesome snakes.

[guidofatherof5]

Beautiful photos.

Is that one of those living room snakes that no ones suppose to sit on:D

[justme]

Thanks Chantel, Wayne, Steve, and Concinnus Man. I love taking pics and having such beautiful subjects sure helps! ;-)

[MoJo]

Thanks for the updates guys. I love hearing about my babies.

[ConcinusMan]

Thanks for the updates guys. I love hearing about my babies.


That reminds me. All you folks who have my concinnus better be forthcoming with the updates or I'll have to contract out Steve's mind control stealth ninja radixes to come to your houses and investigate.:p

[guidofatherof5]

I don't hire out family.
Che te lo dico a fare!:D

[mustang]

thats cool

[ConcinusMan]

Come to think of it, it would be difficult for me to offer them anything compelling since they already have it all.:rolleyes:

[mustang]

more mates maybe? the radix pb mansion lol theyll do anything!(males atleast)

[ConcinusMan]

Not even that. It has been suggested that at certain times of the year, the T. radix ranch transforms into the "chicken ranch", or my personal favorite "The Mustang Ranch" for garter snakes. Nope. They got that too.

Try again!:p

[infernalis]

One of them shed.. Found a skin stuck to the water bowl....

[guidofatherof5]

One of them shed.. Found a skin stuck to the water bowl....

And then Wayne posted a photo.:D Of the snake not the shed:D

[MoJo]

Wayne, did the latest female I sent you eat?

[infernalis]

Wayne, did the latest female I sent you eat?

She's playing hard ball Joanne... The tadpole died yesterday. I left her with it for 6 hours.

She still has good mass to her, so I'm not real worried yet.

If still no luck this week, I will try a newt.

[guidofatherof5]

I don't hire out family.
Che te lo dico a fare!:D

What I meant to say was,
Dimenticatene

[MoJo]

Wayne,

I hope she eats for you soon. There were only three in that litter and I still have the runt male who is eating like a champ! I really expected him not to make it. She always looked really good so I hope she eats.

[infernalis]

She ate for me today...2 fat tadpoles.

[guidofatherof5]

Great news, Wayne.
Hoping much better days are on the way.;)

[MoJo]

Yay! I am so happy that she ate for you. Her brother is eating scented pinky parts already so I hope she converts for you soon.

[infernalis]

They are all eating chopped pinkie / Tilapia mix (AKA "Garter Goulash") with gusto now.

[MoJo]

Woohoo!

[infernalis]

All have shed now.

The little girl with the bad eye looks about the same after her shed, but it does not seem to bother her, she's active and eating.

[MoJo]

I'm glad they are doing well for you. I am surprised that the girl with the growth on her eye is not bothered by it. It's very strange.

[infernalis]

Does not appear to interfere with her quality of life at all.

Here is that last one that refused to eat, what a change. ;)

Having a whole group of these is awesome, thank you so much!!!


http://www.thamnophis.us/2010/blackneckeat.jpg

[ConcinusMan]

Does not appear to interfere with her quality of life at all.

Here is that last one that refused to eat, what a change. ;)

Having a whole group of these is awesome, thank you so much!!!


http://www.thamnophis.us/2010/blackneckeat.jpg


Gorgeous. Looking pretty strong in spite of the fasting. One of my favorite garters and one species I intend to get some day.

[lauwersp]

Extraordinary

[zooplan]

How can they have such a gorgeous pattern and allways behave as such ugly beasts? ;)
I´ve never had a calm specimen of those kind and quit keeping them a while ago.

[lauwersp]

Of these Eastern Blacknecks? or Garters in general...

[infernalis]

How can they have such a gorgeous pattern and allways behave as such ugly beasts? ;)
I´ve never had a calm specimen of those kind and quit keeping them a while ago.

My big girl Mojo is quite calm.

[zooplan]

Of these Eastern Blacknecks? or Garters in general...

:D only T.c.ocellatus

I´ve started keeping Garters about 20 years ago and want not stop for at least further two decades.

[MoJo]

Wow she is a porker! I have two girls that are still here pending completion of a payment and I can not get them to accept anything that is not alive. aargh!

My girl Cheetah that died last year was a calm snake but my others are not. Then again I don't handle them that much. If they weren't so beautiful I am not sure I would still be breeding them! Their musk is the worst musk I have had the pleasure of experiencing!

[infernalis]

That male baby I got from you this year is really calm by baby snake standards too.

I'm not really big on handling snakes, I like observing them through the glass.

Mojo was really skittish, but two years of getting fed outside her enclosure fixed that, if she wants to eat, she has to let me pick her up. ;)

[infernalis]

Quick update on the babies.

They are now eating XS pinkies scented with trout.

The male is for whatever reason growing much faster than the girls are, but thats fine, I can pair him up with Mojo next season.

New pics sometime soon.


I'm glad they are doing well for you. I am surprised that the girl with the growth on her eye is not bothered by it. It's very strange.

She died a few weeks ago, I'm not upset over it, she had a good life even if it was extremely short. I think that growth was malignant, it kept getting bigger, then she expired.

The other 3 are very vibrant and excellent eaters.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Very nice.

[brain]

They are now eating XS pinkies scented with trout.

Mine are still on live platties and mollies they wont' take the frozen XS pinks, trout or talpia.



The male is for whatever reason growing much faster than the girls are.

I lost one fem just wouldn't eat after transport and my male also is more of the eater.

[MoJo]

Quick update on the babies.

They are now eating XS pinkies scented with trout.

The male is for whatever reason growing much faster than the girls are, but thats fine, I can pair him up with Mojo next season.

New pics sometime soon.



She died a few weeks ago, I'm not upset over it, she had a good life even if it was extremely short. I think that growth was malignant, it kept getting bigger, then she expired.

The other 3 are very vibrant and excellent eaters.

So sorry about the girl with the growth on her eye - I'm glad she had the time she had.

I wonder if I missexed the snakes and the "male" that is growing fast than the females is actually a female! I hope you have at least one male there! Let me know and I will make it up to you this year if I did make a mistake.

[guidofatherof5]

So sorry about the girl with the growth on her eye - I'm glad she had the time she had.

I wonder if I missexed the snakes and the "male" that is growing fast than the females is actually a female! I hope you have at least one male there! Let me know and I will make it up to you this year if I did make a mistake.

Sounds like great customer service.

[infernalis]

Sounds like great customer service.


Top notch all the way Steve, I recommend her to people all the time.

[MoJo]

Thanks guys - it really could happen to anyone - those garter hemipenes are really tiny!

And I think I remember that Wayne really wanted a male so I would feel pretty badly if he didn't have one.

[infernalis]

Thanks guys - it really could happen to anyone - those garter hemipenes are really tiny!

And I think I remember that Wayne really wanted a male so I would feel pretty badly if he didn't have one.

Hey now, I have a sweet little colony of blacknecks going on, I couldn't be happier.:cool:

[brain]

My scrubs are still on live fish, patties’, guppies and Danios.
However, today while doing some land clearing I came across three green tree frogs, snatched them up and my Blacknecks devoured them so fast. Amazing. I wish I could get frogs more often.

[infernalis]

http://www.thamnophis.us/random/mow.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.us/random/nom.jpg

[guidofatherof5]

Happy Blackneck.

[infernalis]

They grow so fast.. still juvenile size, but growing like weeds.

[RedSidedSPR]

So... freakin'... awesome. Black necks may just be my favorite kind of garter. Definitely in my top 5.

[infernalis]

So... freakin'... awesome. Black necks may just be my favorite kind of garter. Definitely in my top 5.

Same way I felt the first time I ever saw a picture of one, I simply had to get one.. Now there are 4 I'm giddy like a little girl.

[brain]

http://www.thamnophis.us/random/mow.jpg


Man I have to try again. I'm starting up my mouse farm again maybe the live pink wil work. I'm jealous :(

[drache]

those are very nice