Miss Marley

[katach]

So pretty! Looks like she is all healed up too.

[EasternGirl]

She looks gorgeous.

[InsanePirateDragon]

Thanks, didn't get home until it was dark so no pictures, but tomorrow I promise, it seems that there's a couple of new spot

But Marley was ready to eat again and is quite happy with two tilapia chunks and worm chunks after not really eating anything Wednsday but she's made up for it I think. And I think I'm ready to give a pinkie a shot Monday.

And to continue the saga of Marley's coloring, it looks now that there are a few new spots further down and the fade looks to be on the first 3rd of her body now.

[EasternGirl]

Perhaps she is just growing and her colors are changing as she grows...I have noticed that with my albino. His colors are changing as he gets older.

[InsanePirateDragon]

As in coming in or fading some.

I am sort of use to seeing colors change as I've seen it happen in Leos, but wasn't sure if the same thing happens in snakes.

[InsanePirateDragon]

Well I won't be running out of worms anytime soon hopefully, though Marley showed no interest in food yesterday, she struck at it in the stats and didn't eat what I put in her bowl, I'm not to worried she's not acting lethargic so I'm not to worried about a missed meal, I'm use to it of sorts as Leos go through hunger strikes too. Its probably been the weather which have been pretty humid and muggy for the last few days.

There's been two solid days of raining here and its brought them all to the surface. I've lost track of how many I collected and have attempted to try and start a colony in a vacant small to see if I have any luck in keeping them alive.

[EasternGirl]

All I have seen is teeny tiny little worms here...it's pretty dry. We get nice big fat ones in the summer though. You can get some peat moss and keep it moist, put it in a styrofoam cooler and put it in a cool place and that will keep the worms for you. Or, if you are interested, I can tell you where to buy worm bedding, containers, and worm food online...that is what I did this winter...I started a worm farm.

[Selkielass]

Lovely color!

[InsanePirateDragon]

There's a first for everything right?

Right now I'm frantically trying to hunt her down from what it looks to be an escape. I had changed out her water this morning and more than likely didn't get the lid closed all the way and she slipped out. And now she is missing so I'm not sure exactly what to do.

I put her hide and a thing of water on the ground along the wall hoping she'll show up while I'm at work and I'm trying not to freak out. And the bad thing is that I have work and won't be able to continue the hunt. I set out a worm in hopes of getting her to eat since she really hasn't eaten all week so I know she should be hungry at this point.

[InsanePirateDragon]

Okay noob questions time again.

Is it safe to house different subspecies of garters together if they're the same gender, after a quarantine period of course. I don't have any interest in breeding yet as around here there's no demand for pet garters yet and they only way I'd want to breed Marley is if I ever find a really red redsided.

And how long should a quarantine period last. I know when I got my second gecko, I kept him to himself for a month before I introduced him into the same viv but I had a plexiglass wall that divided them so that they could get use to each other since I was paranoid that my older Leo would try and eat my younger gecko.

And are garters cannibalistic in anyway to where its not safe putting a smaller snake in with bigger snakes. I keep getting visions of Marley gobbling down the brand new little one who I just spent a bit of money on.