Forum: General Talk

I've never seen a snakes switch completely in behavior quite the way my Pugets did yesterday. I had bought some feeder fish for them, and dropped...

Lately I have been reading a lot of posts regarding birthing & picking up gravid females either unintentionally or outright targeting gravid females...

This is kind of random but about how old or how big do baby garters need to be before they can eat a whole pinky? I'm mostly asking cause I dont...

I have an eastern garter snake. Every other day I feed him 2 minnows from a bait shop (fatheads?) in a cat food dish full of water, which is big...

I have seen this garter behind my house about 10 times now. And I have always noticed the "white" scales. This time I decided to catch it and take...

On a local forum I am on. Someone posted these guys and is probably going to give them to me next week! Whoo! Check 'em out!! The Ribbons, What are...

not done yet please dont post Went herping again in the mountains this weekend, only this time, since we arrived friday night and left this...

I just wanted to let everyone see how the little ones were progressing. Believe it or not they have gotten a LOT bigger in the last week...they were...

I may have mentioned before that I have a running joke going with my boss from work. He makes a lot of smarta** remarks about "hillbillies, rednecks,...

Hey everyone. I'm very new to the forum, but I've been lurking for some time now. I bought a baby garter (I think it's female,) from a new...

We collected an eastern ribbon 3 weeks ago in the Catskill mountain area, 2 hrs from home. It finally ate last week, today it had babies. Not what I...

Is it ok to feed my ribbons ghost shrimp? They're all over the lakes here and they sell them cheap at pet stores. I was just wondering because it...

Well... the results of my last herping trip were SO good, that despite the fact that I possibly have bronchitis (dont worry going to doctos in the...

After about 2 weeks of not eating, I decided to let Hugh go. He was a wild snake and I felt bad about keeping him locked up in an aquarium. :(...

A week or so ago, my mom and I were watching TV on the couch, she was finishing up dinner (well done beef roast) and I was holding one of my garters,...

I just wanted to know who else has flames here on the forum... and if they could throw up some pictures?! I am picking up my flames next month from...

Over the years, I have assumed that Garters were terrestrial by nature, and have always provided the "low cover" like flat rocks, bark, logs and such...

I took photos of the snakes but they were to big to send as an attachment to this. I noticed something about my garters bellies. One was bright...

Hi everyone :) I was reading a post from a while ago where you all helped someone determine the gender of his garter snakes. I'm thinking mine is...