doctor i got a problem

[jwolfe152]

ok here are some better pics i hope you can see everything better





i left them large because photobucket likes to change the resolution and there were not as detailed/clear if you can think of a better view for a picture let me know. these were taken with a sony cybershot DSC-W120 with the Carl Zeiss and i can't get it to take good close ups if you know how to use it and get a good close up with it let me know please lol

[guidofatherof5]

I don't think this was done by a weed trimmer. They inflict much more damage. This male looks good and the wound/injury looks like it is healing nicely.
Is the snake pooping fine?

[jwolfe152]

yea as far as i can see i have not seen him poop just after wards. honestly just the size made me think female its the biggest garter i have ever seen. whatever the sex i know its been through a lot as in attacks there are probably 4 or more old marks that look like scratches from birds or other animals. it amazing with all the marks that its still alive.

[guidofatherof5]

From the tail photos you posted I think it's a male. Post up a photo of the tail hanging straight and perpendicular to the camera for a better look.
You very well could be right.

[jwolfe152]

ok i can do that maybe not tonight but tomorrow definitely. i know size is not a reliable way to sex a snake especially by an amatuer like me who has never even seen a full grown male or female garter lol i need to get all of them and do that with the tails so i can sex them and know who to pair with who if breeding comes into the picture. i got to look at the laws here in wv all i have seen pertains to "game animals" or "in season" animals just need to be sure i don't go to jail (never been except when visiting my grandpa that died in jan)over a snake lol

EDIT: i also went and bought some aspen bedding for them (it probably has not been a month but i will be damned if the tanks start smelling) they seem to like it better than the reptibark probably because it is a lot easier to burrow through lol they love to burrow don't they

[Foxrun402]

Ooooo!!! that Aspen will not only look good but I find it smells pretty nice... Or well... the room its in will somewhat take on the scent.... Its very absorbant and I just spot clean and replace what I take out with fresh aspen.... About once every 2 months or so I empty tanks and use wipeout or disinfecting wipes to clean it and replace all the aspen with fresh stuff... My buddie uses a carpet because he wanted "low maintenance" but those things look like more work to me lol... cleaning them constantly lol

[jwolfe152]

i had an iguana and a savannah monitor and used astroturf and it was a PITA to clean up. the only reason i cleaned out the reptibark was i dont want anything to smell my savannah ate live mice and i kept them and bred them and i don't know which one was worse (probably the mice lol) if neglected even a few days late, boy did it smell. hell it was my mom and dads idea to breed the mice to save some money, well soon after we started breeding the mice they took the mice and iguana somewhere idk where to get rid of them while i was in school (i was in middle school at the time) it really pissed me off when i got home and my pets were gone. i was the one that took care of them and they for some reason didnt think that a savannah and mice was going to take so much maintenance, which from what i remember, was not that bad but they thought it was apparently.

but like i said im a lot older and more responsible now and just want to keep clean enclosures and happy herps

[jwolfe152]

these are the best pics i can get it looks like its tail is off center in all of them but these 3 are the best

[guidofatherof5]

Male. The injury looks like it is healing fine.

[jwolfe152]

ok cool, i hate sexing snakes i swear they look female when i hold it and male in the pics maybe im just doing more wishful thinking lol. that and i was not sure that males got that big but if he is this big then wow the girls are going to be, at least a little bigger, which makes me happy. i really like big snakes like the juvenile pythons how they are long and thick, but i dont like adult pythons they get to "fat" to much girth on them.