Storeria ordinoides

[ssssnakeluvr]

slugs are rare here in Magna.....too dry. find them occasionally. one of my radix ate the last one I found.

[guidofatherof5]

slugs are rare here in Magna.....too dry. find them occasionally. one of my radix ate the last one I found.

I would say only about 1% of my radixes will have anything to do with slugs.
The few that eat them really like them. Others try once then rub their mouth on me to get the slime off. Little jerks.

[guidofatherof5]

I'm really starting to love these Northwesterns.
Looking forward to all they have to offers.

[kibakiba]

You'll come to love them even more. While I haven't owned any other garter species than ordinoides, I doubt I'd ever have another favourite. If I'm still living with my mother in 2 years, she might try to get me to move out because the concinnus I have are going to be bigger than Mama... My mom doesn't like big snakes, and if Mama ever got bigger, my mom would have a heart attack! Northwesterns are very very lovable indeed.

[ConcinusMan]

Glad you like them Steve. They were my first snake. Been keeping them since I was about 7 years old. It's very rare that I find one that won't tame down or otherwise doesn't make an excellent pet. So I take it they've settled in and are eating? You can look forward to very slow growth and no more than around 2 feet long some years from now. I have one baby left from my red stripe girl and I swear they haven't grown. I think they shed one time since birth. They were only slightly smaller than the concinnus babies at birth. The concinnus babies are now twice the size of the northwestern. Don't let their small size fool you, a northwestern only 12 inches long is a breedable adult.

Now you see, if it weren't for you, and an hour of my time to catch them, they'd probably be dead now. There's nothing left of the habitat where I found them. They've excavated down several feet and installed curbs for a street going through. If any survived the construction, they now have temperatures in the teens to face and no place left to brumate.

Speaking of storeia, Flicker, that gorgeous red ordinoides male I borrowed just won't eat anything but slugs no matter what tricks I try. Luckily, they are (were) plentiful right outside my door and so he's been eating several nearly every day for the past month or so but he just won't put on body mass. He's so thin I'm afraid to brumate him. His intended girlfriend, my red stripe girl is nice and thick and already brumating. We're in the deep freeze now but before it froze, I put a couple dozen slugs in the fridge to hold him over until things thaw later this week. The only time I can't find slugs is when it's very hot and dry in July and/or August, or when it's below freezing like now. If it's going to be a very cold winter, I may have no choice but to brumate him even though he's very thin because I won't have any food for him

[guidofatherof5]

This little T.ordinoides(Northwestern garter snake) has a system to get the slime out.
Just hang upside down and let gravity do the rest.