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[guidofatherof5]

While on the forum I like check out the "Online Users"(left side of home page).
Clicking on that will expand your view to see what threads are being looked at.
One of the benefits is you get to see what the visitors are viewing. Many times these users are searching and viewing old threads that I would probably never see.
Many of those threads are years old and have not been posted to in a long time.
I've found most of these thread to be very enjoyable reading for educational purposes and some just for fun.
Here's my idea, if you find one of these treasures post a link to it so others can enjoy them.
I'll get things started:
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/3146-pronouncing-names.html
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/578-baiting-snakes.html(one (In my opinion one of the best threads on the forum)

[guidofatherof5]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/203-best-snake-books.html

[infernalis]

Another fun thing to do is click on a user profile and look up all threads started under the "user statistics"....

[RedSidedSPR]

Yeah, i do that. Seeing Steve when he's asking how to care for snake, with normal font is pretty fun :D

Cool thread, man.

[drache]

we used to have a thread with people's art work
I can't find it
can anyone remember what it was called?

[RedSidedSPR]

I know exactly what you're talking about! But i cant' remember!

[drache]

found it
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/617-artists.html

[infernalis]

I remember that thread well.

[d_virginiana]

That makes me want to go draw a picture of my snakes now....

Wow, that online users thing probably makes me seem like a total creeper as I have a tendency to pull up a page and leave it up for a very long time while I'm being distracted by other things :p

[RedSidedSPR]

I have some pretty good pictures of snakes. Just don't have a scanner

[kibakiba]

I keep online users up a lot when I'm online, I feel like a stalker, but I usually have it up while I'm playing games in case something interesting pops up.

[RedSidedSPR]

I've noticed a lot of people do. Especially Stefan :D

[guidofatherof5]

I've noticed a lot of people do. Especially Stefan :D

It's a moderator thing.:D

[snakehill]

Very curious about this Moderator thing! Maybe we should start a new thread!:cool:

[Stefan-A]

Wow, that online users thing probably makes me seem like a total creeper as I have a tendency to pull up a page and leave it up for a very long time while I'm being distracted by other things :p
Don't worry, unless you move from the page you have open, you disappear from the list after 10 minutes.

[infernalis]

Very curious about this Moderator thing! Maybe we should start a new thread!:cool:

By leaving the "who's online" page open, it is far easier to monitor new postings.

[RedSidedSPR]

I agree. I never leave the site open anyway, but when i do i have it "online users".

[PINJOHN]

thanks to steve starting this thread and the contributions added to it i have learned about the online user's facility, if my computer skills/knowledge keep improving at this rate then i am sure that like Richard, i will be building my own computer in one maybe two, thousand years :o

[guidofatherof5]

Found this thread about the Maritime Garter Snake.
I'd love to have a few of these.

Maritime Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis pallidulus)
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/332-maritimes-garters-pallidulus-pics.html

[RedSidedSPR]

Love those

[guidofatherof5]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/3683-disturbing-trend-really-disturbing.html#post67146

[RedSidedSPR]

Interesting...

[d_virginiana]

Yeah, I read that whole thread at once (hooray for insomnia!) and now I want to ask all these random ethics questions that have nothing to do with anything I've ever done/plan to do, but just because it made me curious.

[Bart]

I'm looking for this one post, where somebody is talking about his Storeria dekayi, which is sitting all the time in the food dish with its mouth wide open and waiting for food. I was loling at this so much and I want to show this particular post to my friend, but I couldn't find it myself. Help!

[guidofatherof5]

I think I found it.;)

Post #10
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/husbandry/6429-eating-styles.html

[guidofatherof5]

Not a oldie thread but definitly a goodie. Thanks Greg for starting it.

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/6722-learning-zone.html

[Bart]

That's it, thanks. :D

[guidofatherof5]

Great read.

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/3564-eyes.html

[RedSidedSPR]

That's pretty a pretty cool one... I actually just read it. Thanks to Who's Online :D

[guidofatherof5]

I found this one interesting.
RedSided SPR didnt you have a question about de-worming?
This is about meds. for snake so I thought it might help.
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/husbandry/175-snake-meds.html

[guidofatherof5]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/2622-head-bobbing.html

[kibakiba]

That's a great link. My babies bob their heads at unknown foods a lot. :D

[RedSidedSPR]

Mmy adult does it when he starts moving after a while of not movig. Just like
A green snake... Sideways, looking like a branch in the wind...

[kibakiba]

My snakes heads go up like a stick and they rock it back and forth if you scare them. It was funny seeing all my snakes in the 20 gal. (Mama, Runt, Thumbelina, babies) when I fell while bellydancing. Haha. I love them.

[guidofatherof5]

I found this old thread and though we might revive it or at least be aware of it.

The environment we keep our snakes in is very important and shouldn't be taken for granted.
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/2721-bearded-dragons-smoking.html

[guidofatherof5]

Here's another good one.
This one was started by Rhea back in 07. Nice job Rhea.;)
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/husbandry/580-record-keeping.html

[guidofatherof5]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/2931-sloughed-tongue-skin.html

[RedSidedSPR]

Awesome thread, never knew that.

[guidofatherof5]

I'd forgotten all about this thread.
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/5307-shunned-show.html

[guidofatherof5]

Here's a very cool thread I just found.

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/693-rescue.html

[guidofatherof5]

This is such a fun read. You have to start at the beginning for it's full effect.
Enjoy, I always do.
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/3166-i-want-refund-hognose.html

[kibakiba]

I saw that a while ago too! It made me giggle. Hoggies seem like such jokers... Haha.

[RedSidedSPR]

I love hognoses!!

[guidofatherof5]

Not an old thread but a fun one indeed.;)

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/7215-snake-cartoons.html

[guidofatherof5]

This thread isn't that old but post #9 from Greg(who needs to check in) has some good references for interesting reading.
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/husbandry/6671-garter-venom.html

[RedSidedSPR]

Their venom has no effect on me...

Always thought that was weird. I caught my adult, he tore me up, I thought I'd be itching but nope.

[snakehill]

When my snake bit me and latched on for about a minute it was itchy afterwards! Put vinegar on it. It stopped the itch.;)

[kibakiba]

My hand swells up with the venom. It's super fun.

[guidofatherof5]

Here's another good old thread.

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/breeding/1558-can-you-cross-breed.html

[guidofatherof5]

I remember this old thread.
Still can't believe it happened to me.:)
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/5426-catching-snakes-my-sleep.html

[RedSidedSPR]

Wow. Even in your sleep. Wow.

[ConcinusMan]

Here's another good old thread.

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/breeding/1558-can-you-cross-breed.html

From that thread is this post:



I am really new at this, but my "big eastern" had 42 babies and it seems none of them are exactly alike in coloration. They very from light, with distinct stripes and markings to almost no stripes and dark unmarked coloration with tan to gray underbellies. I had expected them to look like their mother, but not so. This is a WC snake, so at least in my area there is a wild variation in color and pattern, and you may be able to pick and choose within a species to get what you like. I personally am starting to like the darker stripeless variation.:D

Just in case anyone was wondering, that's just polymorphism.


I think he's under the wrong impression that by mixing the two subspecies you'd automatically get a mix of the colours. I know flames are codominant, but not sure what the blue in the Pugets are. You very likely could end up with a snake that looks nothing like either of the two and could look like a plain old garter snake. Mixing snakes is not like mixing paint. As has already been stated this really is a bad idea, and probably not only could you end up with very dull looking snakes, no one would probably buy them and it would mess up how the snakes are naturally.

Roy

True, very true. you only create a snake that is not nearly as beautiful as any one of the two purebreds would be. Case in point: take a beautiful checkered garter and breed it to a beautiful Oregon red spotted and you get this muddy offspring which are not nearly as nice as a pure checkered or pure concinnus:

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5817/concinnuscheckerdhybrid.jpg


Bottom line is that there is no good that can come of crossing them, and plenty of bad that can come of it.

[ConcinusMan]

I wouldn't blame you if you called me a lier, heck I can hardly believe this myself.

For the last 6 months I have been sleeping in the radixes nusery to keep an eye on the young ones. You know, taking care of bad dreams, getting drinks of water, bathroom runs. All the normal stuff.
Up until a month ago I was sleeping on a foldout camping cot and then can the 6 foot display case. Now there's no room for the cot and I've been sleeping on a self-inflating matt. At 6:04 I was sound asleep dreaming about catching radixes. In the dream, I was lying on the ground reaching in a log for a snake. I felt the snake crawling through my hand and I grabbed it. This is when I woke up and realized I had a snake in my hand. An unknown female radixes that had gotten into the house was in my hand. At first I thought and hoped it was my boy scar. He is the only missing snake at this time. I put my glasses on to see if the boy had come home only to find this new female. She didn't musk me or make a lot of effort to get away.
I've heard of Herping in your sleep before but this is something else. She'll be stayng with us as she is a gorgous dark phase with a knockout orange dorsal. I've got a male here that I haven't posted about yet. He's the blackest radix I've ever seen. Those to together should make for some beautiful babies.

Now, they're volunteering to be caught.
It can't get any better than this!

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/thamphotos/data//500/medium/sleeping.jpg

You wouldn't? Thank goodness. I was worried about that.

Well, this old post of yours is amazing Steve, and I do believe it. Good thing you weren't dreaming about eating chocolate pudding.:p

[mb90078]

From that thread is this post:




Just in case anyone was wondering, that's just polymorphism.



True, very true. you only create a snake that is not nearly as beautiful as any one of the two purebreds would be. Case in point: take a beautiful checkered garter and breed it to a beautiful Oregon red spotted and you get this muddy offspring which are not nearly as nice as a pure checkered or pure concinnus:

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5817/concinnuscheckerdhybrid.jpg


Bottom line is that there is no good that can come of crossing them, and plenty of bad that can come of it.

I actually like the looks of those, and I would bet money that there are hybrid possibilities that COULD result in nice looking snakes. That said, I want to make it clear that I am not advocating hybridization in the Garter pet hobby.

[RedSidedSPR]

True, but i just wouldn't care too much. Even if they DID look purdy, I wouldn't have a lot of interest in some mix....

[d_virginiana]

Plus, it would probably take forever to produce a nice looking snake from a cross-breed unless you got really lucky.

[snakehill]

I remember this old thread.
Still can't believe it happened to me.:)
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/5426-catching-snakes-my-sleep.html Who else could it happen to?;)

[guidofatherof5]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/7215-snake-cartoons.html

[ConcinusMan]

I actually like the looks of those, and I would bet money that there are hybrid possibilities that COULD result in nice looking snakes.

I've seen highly questionable snakes before, especially out of Europe. One's that you couldn't quite be sure if they were red pugets, fitchi, oregon red spotted, or a mixture. They were pretty enough, but no more so than if they had been pure.

[kibakiba]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/husbandry/6165-spread-sickness.html

I saw this pop up when I was looking at Online users, it had been something I had wondered about at times, because my snakes don't seem to want to be near me when I am sick. I thought it might be helpful for some people if they're wondering about it, too. It's short, sweet and to the point ;)

[guidofatherof5]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/6722-learning-zone.html

[guidofatherof5]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/3334-social-behaviour-snakes.html

[RedSidedSPR]

My anery and flame never. Ever. Ever. Separate. Ever. If one moves, the other follows.

[guidofatherof5]

This thread contains a lot of good links so I thought I would give it a bump.

[ProXimuS]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/garter-snake-lounge/3166-i-want-refund-hognose.html
I just came acorss this...Thought it was hilarious!

[guidofatherof5]

Bump. Good thread with a lot of good links.

[guidofatherof5]

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/general-talk/203-best-snake-books.html

[guidofatherof5]

Bump