oh happy days

[Zigmund]

wow i had a great day today. i caught 2 new eastern garters about a year old each. that makes 4. and i also caught 2 eastern milk snakes.
ive been hunting snakes in this place in a friends back yard for 3 years because the construction of filling in this whole vally and making homes on top of it was starting 3 years ago so i would go and rescue snakes from the area and i had never found a milk snake before. i always used to check under a bunch of junk carpet. today is the first time i checked IN the rolled carpet and folded stuff and i found 2 easterns and 2 milk snakes. now my question is.... welllll i just eed info on how to keep the milks because these are my first. one of them struck at the other so i already have seperated them into different temporary tanks...now what?

[dashnu]

From what I know the environmet should be the same as a garter. My milk ate a F/T Fuzzy the day I got him been on those since.. They are much more agressive as I found one in the wild eating a garter three times his size. Milk snakes will even eat their own eggs I have read. Keeping them solo is a good idea. Congrats and good luck.

[Zigmund]

thank you =)

[infernalis]

Zigmund,

Milk snakes tend to be more "hostile" than Garters. Sometimes they will imitate a rattlesnake just to scare predators, and to the snake you are a predator.

In 30 years of picking up snakes, Nearly all of the milks either bit or musked. (one little neonate even went after my hand like a rabid badger)

The one I decided to keep this year, she laid seven eggs for me.

We keep her at 75-80 and no heaters this time of year, she spends time under her water bowl to stay cool.

She ate really well when I first brought her in, then suddenly stopped eating, about a week after her last meal she dropped eggs.

Milk snake eggs

[dashnu]

Have they hatched yet?

[infernalis]

Brett, Here, you were away at the time..

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/gart...day-yikes.html

[Zigmund]

wired mine seem to be the complete opposite, they neither musked nor struck at me