Hi All,
Thanks for the warm welcome. I should warn you that I'm really slow to reply/post to forums, but I'll attempt to visit regularly. To answer some of the questions and comments posted:
Sometimes my boss posts reports on his webpage: WERC - Glenn Wylie
The ones related to work I've done aren't up there yet.
Cyrill - your snake is soooo beautiful!
I haven't started doing the tetra research yet, so I mainly have questions now too. It has been suggested that tetra do specialize on Rana aurora draytoni (red legged frogs), and this has contributed to their decline, but there is no research backing this up. Differences/simliarities in diet between sympatric gartersnakes will likely be a major part of my research. Perhaps at this time next year I'll actually know a little something about this!

best,
melissa