The British garter hobby ....

[guidofatherof5]

Here's the photo used in the ad. Western Ribbon - T.proximus proximus not Eastern.
Thanks Steve Schimdt for tracking down the original photo.
Ribbon Snakes - <i>Thamnophis sauritus</i> and <i>Thamnophis proximus</i>/P1060892

[Darlo]

Here's the photo used in the ad. Western Ribbon - T.proximus proximus not Eastern.
Thanks Steve Schimdt for tracking down the original photo.
Ribbon Snakes - <i>Thamnophis sauritus</i> and <i>Thamnophis proximus</i>/P1060892

I like your detective skills...

[-MARWOLAETH-]

I see countless pics of infernalis' identified as "red sided- T.s. parietalis" and unfortunately most of them provide no contact info. I often also see a pic of parietalis identified as "CA red sided" too, or just "red sided- T.s. infernalis" And don't even get me started on a recent ad I saw. Pic was an anery parietalis originally purchased from Scott but advertised as "anery oregon red sided" but they didn't even spell "Oregon" correctly. LoL (and the tank it was in had more feces than substrate)

The worst one I saw was on an RFUK thread that Chris messaged me about .The bloke was asking if there where any red oregon chequered garters available! LoL

[Darlo]

Seeing as though we have been talking about Viper and Vine and their lack of accuracy when it comes to displaying stock photos I've just noticed that the cheeky things have actually used a personal photo of my lygodactylus geckos to advertise as their own on their Facebook page.

[chris-uk]

Seeing as though we have been talking about Viper and Vine and their lack of accuracy when it comes to displaying stock photos I've just noticed that the cheeky things have actually used a personal photo of my lygodactylus geckos to advertise as their own on their Facebook page.

Cheeky gits. Hope they're getting a phone call or email to tell them to use their own photo.

[CrazyHedgehog]

I went to Viper and Vine recently, his 'red sided' garters were hiding their red very well that day!
(however, the two dozen mice we bought to start our breeding process off are doing very well!)

[Darlo]

Cheeky gits. Hope they're getting a phone call or email to tell them to use their own photo.

Oh a blunt and rather sarcastic email was sent to them promptly!

[chris-uk]

I went to Viper and Vine recently, his 'red sided' garters were hiding their red very well that day!
(however, the two dozen mice we bought to start our breeding process off are doing very well!)

At least he had them labelled as "Red-sided Garter" rather than "Northern Garters". Although, could you tell whether they were actually parietalis?

[Darlo]

The photo has now been removed and replaced with their 'own' image.

[guidofatherof5]

The photo has now been removed and replaced with their 'own' image.

Good job. Keep them honest