FRUSTRATION... lost snake is "found"

[drache]

Trinity looks like a California red-sided to me
am I right?

[ssssnakeluvr]

trintiy is a regular red sided garter...t s parietalis.

[KITKAT]

Here is Tiger Lily, the girl that my neighbor brought to my door. Do you think she is still gravid?

[KITKAT]

ssssnakelover also sent me a trio of T e vagrans. They are beautiful snakes and the first wanderings I have ever seen in person!

Here are the female and the young male, staring at my parietalis, who is in a neighboring tank.



... and a closeup of the second male...

[Stefan-A]

Very nice looking snakes.

[drache]

trintiy is a regular red sided garter...t s parietalis.

she maybe a regular, but she looks very special
do you have more like that?

and the T. e.vagrans are lovely

[KITKAT]

Tigerlily is a WC snake, but in the past we never had any of the orange striped variety here. Since I have seen Ruby, my escapee with the orange stripe, and since Ruby escaped over 2 years ago, I suspect that Tigerlily might be Ruby's daughter.

Ruby appears to still live under my neighbor's pond waterfall, based on where we are finding sheds.

I am hoping Tigerlily is still gravid, and if so, and we have babies, I can keep a couple of girls to go with the male flame I got from Scott Felzer. And if there are several babies from Tigerlily, I would also offer them to forum members.

The wanderings that Don sent me are absolutely lovely. I thought it was humorous when the female spotted Ivory in the tank next door and stared at her. Ivory is an elderly parietalis.

[KITKAT]

Gaia (Earth Mother) is eating, but not as well as her sister. I am watching her upper lip... it almost looks like she still has some of her "egg tooth". Do garters HAVE an egg tooth like other newborn snakes?

The answer came last night. The rough place on her nose is the beginning of her second shed... she completed it during the night! It is no wonder she was not eating well... interestingly, she never had the milky eyecaps. Perhaps they went milky during shipping. And... I am glad to see she continued to eat (although less) during a shed! Good girl!

[ssssnakeluvr]

one of them shed in the container the night before she was shipped!!! Ihave a sister of the 2 red siders..she has no red at all...and a neat pattern!!!

[KITKAT]

one of them shed in the container the night before she was shipped!!! Ihave a sister of the 2 red siders..she has no red at all...and a neat pattern!!!

That must have been Trinity, then.

Today while I was working at the PC desk, I heard something drop off onto the floor, and caught motion from the corner of my eye at the same time. I then checked the critter keepers next to the desk, and yup! Trinity was missing!

Got down on my hands and knees and crawled under the desk and behind the printer stand, where I spotted Trinity trying to climb the baseboard, and nabbed her!

Then, while crawling out of the hole on two knees and one hand (so as not to hurt the baby), I hit the power strip with my other hand and turned it off... thus shutting down my PC without proper shut-down procedures!

Got Trinity back into her keeper, and am sitting here watching her, trying to figure out how she got out!

There are two very tiny holes where there used to be a little handle on the top of the critter keeper, and if nothing else occurs to me, I am gonna stop them up with duct tape on the top.