Bucket of males

[Jeff B]

I've been putting the adult garters outdoors in large screened in cages in the summer on the weekends so they can get some sunshine, fresh air and exercise. They seem to enjoy the time outside and I look at it as charging their batteries for the next breeding season. I put females in one cage and the males in the other, so when I was moving the males outsided in a five gallon bucket I took the oportunity to get a group photo of the bucket of males. The females are too big to all fit in a bucket, not to mention they can lauch themselves out quite easily and quickly.
http://gartersnakemorph.com/images/allmales.jpg

[count dewclaw]

Very nice bunch! Really like the Chicago.

[Mrs N1ntndo]

That an awesome Jeff. Thank you for sharing. Beautiful snakes. I love them all.

[guidofatherof5]

Very nice group.

[annulataarethebest]

Good looking snakes there Jeff, I really like that albino erythristic (?) eastern and the granite checkered garter under it.

[d_virginiana]

That's a great photo. I'm sort of tempted to print it out and make it a poster :p

[guidofatherof5]

Jeff,

What do you think about a contest to ID all the snakes in the bucket.
The winner will get the praise of all the forum member and I will get that bucket of snake for coming up with the idea :D

[Jeff B]

Thanks for the comments all, Mike there are 2 ery albinos. Steve that would be a neat contest, but nobody gets the bucket as the prize, not even you. I would offer a free poss het axanthic chicago baby to the first winner if they pay for shipping $45.

[guidofatherof5]

Wow Jeff,
I of course was just joking and never expected this. What a nice offer.
Do you want to write it up as an official contest? If you want me to I will.
No one should enter unless they are willing to pay the shipping fee.
That shipping was within the U.S.A. right.

[annulataarethebest]

That'd be too easy of a contest Steve lol, I'm 99% positive I can ID the bucket-full the only one I'm not so sure about I think is a albino FL garter.

[guidofatherof5]

That'd be too easy of a contest Steve lol, I'm 99% positive I can ID the bucket-full the only one I'm not so sure about I think is a albino FL garter.

It's Jeff's call.

[jitami]

Gorgeous boys! I'll take that one... and that one... and... lol

[Jeff B]

Lets just do this, lets make this an unofficial contest just for fun, with no prize at stake, just pride, lol. Anybody that wants to guess, just post the list of all the males on this post, but you have to get any hets right too :D.

[guidofatherof5]

Good call Jeff. Sounds like fun.

[PINJOHN]

i think i will give the contest a miss. the two reasons i was posting on this thread was to ask which one is the Chicago? and wouldn't that picture make a great poster these thoughts were before i had read further down and saw the identity challenge and Lara's poster comment :o

[zooplan]

$45 would be and excellent shipping fee for anything :D
I´m sure that´s only within USA :o
Nice bucket!!!

[RicMartin]

That photo is a poster, Jeff. Awesome garters!

[Jeff B]

i think i will give the contest a miss. the two reasons i was posting on this thread was to ask which one is the Chicago? and wouldn't that picture make a great poster these thoughts were before i had read further down and saw the identity challenge and Lara's poster comment :o

The green one is the green axanthic chicago.
Sorry I missed your other question, are you asking me to release rights to the photo so you can make a poster and sell it?

[ConcinusMan]

Why is it that once again, I see no photo, nor a place for it? It appears to me as a normal text post and nothing more.

[PINJOHN]

are you asking me to release rights to the photo so you can make a poster and sell it?

Jeff your answer cracked me up :D i don't have a single commercial gene in my entire body :D no all i meant is it would look stunning on my wall, if i had a printer [which i don't] getting a copy is i suppose straight forward, but what you do to get it poster size i haven't a clue, but even a printer size on my wall would look great with your permission ;)

[kibakiba]

It's working for me, Richard. Maybe you should take your own advice and do a hard refresh? :D

[ConcinusMan]

I did before I even said anything. Still nothing. I came back a few hours later and it was there. Just like it did the last 3 or 4 times when I said nothing was there.

I don't know. Still a mystery and it isn't the first time it happened. Maybe it will stop doing that now. I'm not even running the same OS or browser as of late this afternoon. Was Windows XP Media Center Edition and firefox 4. Now it's Windows 7 Ultimate and Firefox 6. I'm liking it much better now.:)

Should have done this a year ago when I bought Windows 7. Just kept putting it off.:rolleyes: That's what I was saying in the "how old are you" thread. Put it off a week, a day, maybe another month, next thing you know, a year has gone by in a flash. Maybe it was better to wait anyway, now that service pack 1 is available. Thing is, now you can get this OS for around $150 cheaper than what I paid.:mad:

[Jeff B]

Jeff your answer cracked me up :D i don't have a single commercial gene in my entire body :D no all i meant is it would look stunning on my wall, if i had a printer [which i don't] getting a copy is i suppose straight forward, but what you do to get it poster size i haven't a clue, but even a printer size on my wall would look great with your permission ;)

Sure no problem, you and Lora can print away for your wall, sorry I completely misread what you were wanting, didn't mean to offend you personally or make you laugh, but laughing is quite fine with me, even if it's at me, lol. Got to be able to take it, if you dish it out, right. You would be surprised how many blood suckers there are on the internet, the more internet presence you have the more leeches it attracts. None the less the overwhelming majority of people I have encountered thru garters and /or the internet have been very positive experiences and I am thankful for the interactions with them, hell even Richard and Joe get on my nerves sometimes, but I still love them like brothers, and enjoy and respect everything I read that they write, and there was a time that Shannon hated my guts, deservedly so for something I wrote, but I hope that time has passed. And even though Scott and I get along great, the friendly little competitions get not so friendly sometimes, lol. Sorry for the rant, I guess I was just reflecting on the past several years on the forums and how we all can completely misinterpret written meanings, or read into and add our own meanings, and we take sides, and emotions can get high, such is the drama of life I guess.

[PINJOHN]

Sure no problem, you and Lora can print away for your wall, sorry I completely misread what you were wanting, didn't mean to offend you personally or make you laugh, but laughing is quite fine with me, even if it's at me, lol. Got to be able to take it, if you dish it out, right. You would be surprised how many blood suckers there are on the internet, the more internet presence you have the more leeches it attracts. None the less the overwhelming majority of people I have encountered thru garters and /or the internet have been very positive experiences and I am thankful for the interactions with them, hell even Richard and Joe get on my nerves sometimes, but I still love them like brothers, and enjoy and respect everything I read that they write, and there was a time that Shannon hated my guts, deservedly so for something I wrote, but I hope that time has passed. And even though Scott and I get along great, the friendly little competitions get not so friendly sometimes, lol. Sorry for the rant, I guess I was just reflecting on the past several years on the forums and how we all can completely misinterpret written meanings, or read into and add our own meanings, and we take sides, and emotions can get high, such is the drama of life I guess.

absolutely no offence taken Jeff, as i said i thought it was highly amusing but at the same time i wanted to reassure you of my meaning, If you want a laugh at my expense:eek: then take a look at the warren buffett ? thread i will post a little later.:rolleyes:

[ConcinusMan]

hell even Richard and Joe get on my nerves sometimes, but I still love them like brothers, and enjoy and respect everything I read that they write

Awwww... that warms my heart. I love you too Jeffie-weffie!:p

I have high respect you and your opinion too. If we didn't conflict in opinions or have different ideas about some things, I would worry. Perfectly normal and if it didn't happen, then I would begin to worry that our conversations, even if they become arguments, have little value.:cool:

One thing I don't get... Joe and I seem to agree on a lot of things(perhaps not everything) we talk about in private... oh wait, so that's why we both get on your nerves!:p Well shoot. Joe and I should just decend on your place and talk your ear off until you go so insane that you decide to give up all your "thamnophises" to us. Muahahahhahha! Right Shannon? You down with that?:D

No, seriously. Respect back at you Jeff. That's a gorgeous bucket of balss.... umm... male snakes you got there. Top notch.

[GarField000]

Great picture.
I would like to know the name of the first light coloured one with the small dark spots/bloks. His head is on the right and then body goes a little up and in the middle runs down to the bottom.

Great looking garter that is ........

[guidofatherof5]

I believe you are talking about the "Granite" eastern. T.s.sirtalis

[GarField000]

I mean this one
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/1107/malesn.jpg

It's a very great looking garter ....... i'm in love ......

[kibakiba]

I believe a granite checkered?

[guidofatherof5]

You're probably right Chantel.;)

[kibakiba]

The way its head and neck looked, was similar to a granite checkered that I had seen in another picture. It was the first thing that popped into my head :)

[GarField000]

I have never seen it ....
It's awesome:eek: ....... I don't think this one is in europe ........

[GarField000]

You are right Chantal, i found some more pictures on the web.
There is even a girl in germany who is trying to breed with them ....
Thx

[kibakiba]

I don't think she'd be able to conceive if she were doing that with a snake! :eek:
I've never heard of a human garter hybrid! :D


Haha, sorry. I just had to poke a little fun at that, I'm not trying to offend you or be rude.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Sweet!!!

[GarField000]

I don't think she'd be able to conceive if she were doing that with a snake! :eek:
I've never heard of a human garter hybrid! :D


Haha, sorry. I just had to poke a little fun at that, I'm not trying to offend you or be rude.

Hahaha, this kind of language barrier has come up before *lol*
When younger I have been very active in online gaming and was member off an UK clan. Man I had troubles with these guys hahahaha.

[charles parenteau]

Very very nice Jeff!!

[thamneil]

Thats one hell of a bucket :eek:

[kibakiba]

Hahaha, this kind of language barrier has come up before *lol*
When younger I have been very active in online gaming and was member off an UK clan. Man I had troubles with these guys hahahaha.


Yeah, I'm somewhat of a gamer too. I've talked to many people from many locations. I'm used to little typing errors. :) We don't mind! English is hard to learn with all the junk us Americans throw in. ;)

[Jeff B]

Great picture.
I would like to know the name of the first light coloured one with the small dark spots/bloks. His head is on the right and then body goes a little up and in the middle runs down to the bottom.

Great looking garter that is ........

You are correct its a granite checkered, one of my favorites, a very novel looking morph for sure, and a lot of people really like them. Unfortunatel my female, dispite seeing her locked up with the male many times, did not produce this year. Next spring I will have 2 female granite checkereds up to size, and possibly a few hets too.

[katach]

That is a great bucket-o-snakes!!!