Jon's Garter Snake Thread ( Suzi )

[ConcinusMan]

she doesn't look like she's due to shed any time soon. The time to worry is if she goes blue then doesn't shed within a week.

Not exactly. They can go blue for just a couple of days, or a couple of weeks. It can be very cloudy or just a little. Then suddenly one day, the cloudiness clears up. That's when they should shed. AFTER they go clear again. They will still look rather dull at that time but not cloudy. After they go clear they will shed right away or it could take a few days. it certainly shouldn't take longer than a week after going clear. If it's been longer than that and they start looking wrinkly, then worry.

Looks to me like she's going to shed any day now. Like she's got done with the cloudy part and will shed any time now.

[Foxrun402]

Well here we go again... lol... She still has not shed... and she has not shown any signs of weird activity... I'm thinking she was having a major growth spurt becasue she is much bigger now then the last time I posted.... I also swapped her moss out for the ZooMed brand and its the same color as her aspen bedding... I thought this was nice because it would make spot cleaning a little easier... She seemed to be mad at me for that... and looked into her moss hide... looked back at me... and then went into her tree and hid =( spoiled snakey!

Today I got off work and came home to feed her, but I figure I will wait a little bit because she finally got over it and went into the moss hide! (thank god)

she has stepped it up on her food though and she eats like a pig still and now after eating she climbs out of her feeding tank into my hand to put her back in her place!
I will add some more pictures of her here in a little while im still uploading them to photobucket =)

As always I hope you're all having a good day!

And to Steve! I'm so glad you got to keep tank! That kicks ***!!!! (Sorry I haven't been on much been super busy)

-Jonathan

[Foxrun402]

Pictures... Taken within this last week






And Meet Cindy...


This is my buddies Corn Snake he bought because he fell in love with Suzi...
This Friday... we fed Cindy and she normally is nonchalant about it and just slowly grabs and creeps away with her pinky...
This time instead of using a feeding tank.... we put her food in her living quarters... she got mad and struck at the tongs... and DESTROYED 2 pinks!

Territory thing? maybe? lol!

[Foxrun402]

Here are some more of Suzi

[Invisible Snake]

Suzi's looking good!

[guidofatherof5]

Suzi's looking good!

Agreed.

[kueluck]

Suzie is such a pretty girl. That's for the updated pics.

[Foxrun402]

So she has gotten way bigger then my first time in this forum.... New feeding tank time... BLAM!


And After dinner tonight... look at that belly and that happy girl with room in there to move... =)




If she doesn't like Football... thats ok with me... but it looks good!

[guidofatherof5]

I like it and the bulge in her belly

[Foxrun402]

A glimpse into the detailed miniature paradise Suzi lives in.... just cleaned it all up and gave it new water as usual =)


Then I felt that her feeding tank was pretty boring with just the carpet and dishes... Spruced it up a bit


Then fed her 2 nighcrawlers in her new feeding area and got that on gopro... will chop that up later and get a link to it...

Typically... she ate her dinner and i placed her back into her home, she goes straight to her warm hide... curls up in it... pokes her head out of some dry sphagnum in her hide (basically for padding) and rests her little head on that rock and spys on me...



She seem's to be doing great, no sign of blue in her eyes and I've been watching like a hawk... =)