snake hunting, evidently I'm out of practice.

[Sonya610]

It does not take weeks to get a snake from a breeder (assuming you choose an animal that is old enough to go to a new home). They are shipped overnight delivery; with online payment methods you can often have the animal delivered to your door in 2 days.

I have bought two garters from breeders on this forum. One I had the breeder hold, the other one involved me messaging a breeder on a Sunday and receiving the animal at my door on Tuesday from a few states away.

[GaiusIuliusTabernarius]

hmm, I suppose I could give it a try, I set a few more traps so if I don't have one by next week I'll definitely consider it.

One way or another... I have the tank... I will have a snake to go in it.

[GaiusIuliusTabernarius]

Well nothing yet, though we just had a pretty bad storm so I'm hopeful that I might find one hiding under my traps tomorrow. There are bound to be plenty of worms and slugs due to the rain... well see what happens. I know they are in there somewhere... this is actually what my yard looks like.

[ConcinusMan]

Sometimes one can be in the right place at the wrong time. I just got back from camping and the weather was good. A bit cloudy but plenty of sunbreaks and highs around 70. For 4 straight days, the herping sucked. I looked for hours every day and only found 2 plain brown northwesterns during that 4 days.

Then the day before I was supposed to leave, it was a warm night and we woke up to nothing but blue skies, headed for a high of 80. Well, I'm sitting there at my camp sight around 9am and all of the sudden, half a dozen or so T.s. concinnus' slithered right into camp and were basking right in front of me.

So I went out looking around and found tons of snakes. Northwesterns and concinnus' were everywhere. I was practically tripping over snakes. But by noon, they were all gone. Not a single snake to be found the rest of the day. By far, your best bet is in the morning while it's still cool and the snakes have come out to bask.

Sometimes it's just a matter of timing and luck.

Sonya has a point though. What made you think buying a garter takes weeks? I have a couple of very pretty young CB concinnus' for sale right now and I'm not asking for much money. When I get the money by mail (2-3 days) I can have the snakes at the buyers doorstep, anywhere in the USA, around 22 hours later.

[Mommy2many]

Welcome to the forum. Good luck hunting. I have not found any either but I haven't looked. I'm in Connecticut, not too far from you, I suppose.