Forum: General Talk

Here are some updated pics of some of my snakes I received a couple of months ago from Scott Felzer. Here is my Fl. blue stripe (similis) First pic...

Yay! My female T.s.pallidulus 'Snaky' has finally shed. She's been working on this for a good week or more now, so it's about time. For two days...

i have a big flordia blue girl she's between 3.5-4ft had a male but he escaped looking for red sided garters locality non specific a trio of babies...

I found three baby blue Puget garters!!!!!!!!! I talked to the man extensively today-- his name is Greg Johnson, from NYC-- I really liked him, he...

I guess I gotta clean cages this weekend. Ugh. This one is really turning blue on the bottom as he gets older. Does this happen with the blue...

there are other burmation questions but i have 1 male (16")1 female puget (23 1/2 ") sound, and 1 male (17") and soon to be 1 female red-sided...

They're here they're here!!!!! OMG they are TINY AND SOOOO CUUUUUTE!!!!!!!!!!!! And they are ACTIVE LITTLE boogers aren't they??!!!!!! I want to take...

I only recently learned of these living jewels when I saw two interacting on Sauvie Island, at the confluence of the Columbia & Willamette rivers. ...

wont eat ever since i separeted him from the other one because i thought the other one had mites iits been about a week when should i worry/force...

Not that I would do this, or that I would have a reason to milk a garter snake, but, as a lot of people know garter snakes are technically venomous....

Should I italicize scientific names? Do they have to be? I've seen it both ways. Was English major, but this out of my range.

my son was out back in our yardand he just happened to see this big daikeys snake under our grill, and was quick to catch her , she is much bigger...

well we got our new male maritime delivered today looks pretty good

she did it she did it my recalcitant, stubborn like a 2-yr-old concinnus had a pinkiiiiieee here I am, doggedly trying yet another method it was...

where do i start from and end, and the scales go like a z do i count in a z patern?

OK, we ordered a Puget and a red-sided from Scott.:D These are both common garter snakes as far as I can tell. So , trying to remember biology,...

How many posts that is. Also, I know everyone here keeps garters. What else you guys(gals) keeping out there?

head used to be light grey now its turning brown/olive, any1 know why?

ok first, while I have read that Garters dont like to be handled too often, I have found that Rook enjoys it, he comes out on his own when he wants...

So... generally, do we worry about the feeder fish giving our snakes parasites? Do you check fecals on your snakes from time to time and deworm or is...