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    My new garter(s)

    Picked up a pair of these a few weeks ago. Female is pictured. She just shed a couple days ago. Male looks identical, but a bit smaller. Both are feeding on guppies/tilapia pieces at the moment. Trying to get them switched over to rodents. Feeding time is tomorrow and I plan on changing their bedding to newspaper. Don't really care for the aspen. Anywho, thanks for looking!
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    Re: My new garter(s)

    You can alternate between the tilapia and frozen/thawed pinkies...that would give them a more rounded diet. Add some worms in too now and again if you can. There are some other options for bedding too other than aspen and newspaper that I can suggest if you are interested. Laying newspaper or paper towels down to feed on is a good idea though...don't want to feed on the aspen, definitely. Beautiful snake you have there!
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    Re: My new garter(s)

    Welcome to the forum. Looks like nice garter you have there.
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    Re: My new garter(s)

    Welcome ! Very nice snake by the way
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    I like snakes! mikem's Avatar
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    Re: My new garter(s)

    thanks for the replies! she is a concinnus, yes? may be a stupid question, but the bold stripes on her sides confuse me. they are LTC and i was told they came from oregon. like i said, the male looks just like her, so maybe they're just dimorphic?

    easterngirl, that's the plan! good variety of diet. as far as bedding, i'll probably put a bottom layer of newspaper and then add some carefresh on top for them to crawl around in. thanks for the advice!

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    Re: My new garter(s)

    Quote Originally Posted by mikem View Post
    thanks for the replies! she is a concinnus, yes? may be a stupid question, but the bold stripes on her sides confuse me. they are LTC and i was told they came from oregon. like i said, the male looks just like her, so maybe they're just dimorphic?

    easterngirl, that's the plan! good variety of diet. as far as bedding, i'll probably put a bottom layer of newspaper and then add some carefresh on top for them to crawl around in. thanks for the advice!
    They could be a concinnus from the photo you posted. The pattern looks right to me, but I'm not 100% on the redsided species. I thought the concinnus had a brighter red head though, so they could be parietalis... There's a lot of members who are more familiar with these species, so you'll soon get a positive ID.

    Varied diet is the way to go.
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    Re: My new garter(s)

    Nice to have you with us.
    Good looking snake.
    Here's a link to the care sheet.

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    Re: My new garter(s)

    Probably fitchi, probably not concinnus, definitely not parietalis.

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    Re: My new garter(s)

    I had an inkling towards fitchi, but didn't suggest it as an option because I didn't think they were very common. But what's not common here is not necessarily so scarce elsewhere.
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    Re: My new garter(s)

    I'm not good at identifying the different types of garters yet...carefresh sounds like a good plan...that's what I use. They do enjoy burrowing down in it. Be careful not to feed on it though...they can ingest it and get a blockage.
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