Northern garters

[snakehill]

There is an ad for Northern garters on kingsnake.com. Is there another name for these snakes? I am confused!:confused:

[Stefan-A]

Link.

[snakehill]

:oCan't click on link.

[guidofatherof5]

kingsnake.com Classifieds: Northern Garter Snakes: $25 (http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=99&de=856481)

[snakehill]

They are not listed on the care sheets. That's why I was wondering if they are called something else.:confused:

[RedSidedSPR]

There;s no such thing as a Northern garter. Probably a plains or redsided

[RedSidedSPR]

Looks like a radix... Steve?

[Stefan-A]

Wouldn't pay anything for them. No valid common name and no scientific name. Who knows what the hell it really is. They might as well have labeled them "snakes".

[Kantar]

that nearly looks like what I would call an eastern here in manitoba

[RedSidedSPR]

Well, they ARE garter snakes...

[Stefan-A]

I'm sure that's good enough for whoever is going to buy them.

[guidofatherof5]

I've got a call into the owner to see if I can get more info. on the snake.
I'm guessing it's just a bulk snake he purchased from some idiot that raids wildlife.:mad:

[RedSidedSPR]

$25 bucks. For someone who wants a garter, that's not bad. To me, it looks like a mix between plains and northwestern. We'd figure that part out with some pics.

I wouldn't buy it though.

Just saying, it IS a garter snake, so...

[RedSidedSPR]

I've got a call into the owner to see if I can get more info. on the snake.
I'm guessing it's just a bulk snake he purchased from some idiot that raids wildlife.:mad:

Yeah, i was about to email him. But if you've got a call...

[snakehill]

I wasn't going to buy one. Just curious!;)

[Stefan-A]

Just saying, it IS a garter snake, so...
...what?

Nobody should pay anything for those snakes.

[RedSidedSPR]

I agree.

I was saying that since its a garter, that if someone wants a garter, than buy it, but NOW i realize that there is more than that.

Don't buy it.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Looks like plains garters to me.

[snakehill]

He has an ad for lined garter snakes too. Tropidoclonion lineatum. Is this even a garter snake?:confused:

[Stefan-A]

He has an ad for lined garter snakes too. Tropidoclonion lineatum. Is this even a garter snake?:confused:
No. Look like garters, probably a pretty close relative, but they're not garters.

[Scott F]

The Northern garters he has advertissed are red sideds, from where he gets them at they have minimal red markings.

[snakehill]

Thanks Scott! Not to change the subject but the baby red sided that I got from you didn't make it! Sorry!:(

[RedSidedSPR]

Now that you mention it... it does look like a red sided. But that stripe is just radixy. :D

but what do i know.

[guidofatherof5]

Wish there was a better photo to do a scale count.

[Scott F]

Sorry to hear the snake didn't make it, please send me a private message.

Scott

[Stefan-A]

Wish there was a better photo to do a scale count.
I wish the person selling them had bothered to find out what they are.

[RedSidedSPR]

Ditto. But you know he doesn't even care.

[BUSHSNAKE]

many people think a gartersnake is just a garter snake...anybody remember the 80's..."red rat snake", "boa constrictor", "carpet python","box turtle"...GENERIC TERMS FOR GENERIC PEOPLE

[RedSidedSPR]

yeah... garter up north is "northern garter". Maybe somone sold it to him, told him they were norhterns, and he went with that. Who knows.