Stefan's garters

[Stefan-A]

I do know someone who might be looking for food for baby O. hannahs...

[ConcinusMan]

Well there ya go. No sense letting them go to waste.

Oh boy, I'm going to get it from Steve for that comment. I just know it.

Wouldn't surprise me if he offered to book a flight and come to your house to pick them up personally.

[Stefan-A]

Fed my snakes yesterday. Saw something interesting. My '08 male vagrans struck and threw 2 or 3 loops around the mouse, but let go just as quickly. The whole thing took about 3 seconds. Should have had the camera running.

[guidofatherof5]

Wow, never saw that from a garter.

[ssssnakeluvr]

vagrans are known to do that...not necessarily constricting to death, but holding on til the saliva calms them down. have seen it several times myself. I don't use live adult mice with garters now, so haven't seen it for a while

[ConcinusMan]

Interesting. Maybe this is how the evolution of constriction begins. If that doesn't pan out, they can always develop more potent secretions from their Devorney's glands through natural selection.

I've seen garters use coils to push prey against an object, or to help with getting a good grip on it until they begin to swallow, but that's a little different than actually quickly coiling around it.

[kibakiba]

Snap coiled around a somewhat large piece of worm I had fed her once. She's crazy with her food. The worm wasn't moving and it wasn't big enough to cause a problem if it were alive... But, I figured it was just because she is one crazy girl.Smelt like salmon, that's probably why. She goes crazy, striking at everything if she just smells it.

[ConcinusMan]

If I were able to go back roughly 4,400 posts I could show you that I've been saying it all along. Any concinnus I've ever had before I joined was the same way. Smell fish.. go bezerk!

More recently, when I was talking about them pining their food down, it was wiggly worms, Chantel. It's as if they were trying to say "hold still!"

[kibakiba]

About a month ago Squirt would eat nothing but the wiggly worms, he hated grabbing onto them though... He'd hit them, miss them, become tangled in them... He got wise to that and let them down in his water dish before swallowing it. It was funny seeing him carrying it to the water dish and dropping them in, watching it intently. He only did that twice before I started feeding him worm chunks and moved him to the baby tank, where he has developed a much better appetite.

[drache]

not sure which one of my garters did that, but I know I've seen it