Mad Garter Disease?!?

[adamanteus]

Could be that the regurgitation was another symptom of whatever the problem is, rather than the cause of the problem.

[Zephyr]

My only other idea is that he got "stuck" somewhere, possibly near the head (a lot of wild garters HATE having their necks touched) and struggling to get free made him flip out.

[Zephyr]

It is a boy, right?

[Stefan-A]

So, if it's attacking "nothing", then it's either startled, in pain or off its nut.

[adamanteus]

I'm betting that Kyle is pretty close to the truth with his 'it got stuck' theory...... That would stress it out enough to throw up... especially a Florida Blue, which are a bit highly strung anyway.

[Sid]

The only thing near this that I have experienced was while feeding my garters while visitors were in the room. Some teens started pointing at one of my female Easterns and she went nuts. For the next two years I couldn'd handle her without getting bitten. Prior to that she was great to handle.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Not likely. There wasn't anything near him to freak him out. I heard him thrashing about and walked over to see what was going on. Striking at things that weren't there and otherwise freaking out for a couple hours...

that is how my similis died. I heard the snake thrashing about madly...

[drache]

this is scary and I hope your garter won't be one of those worst case scenarios
and welcome to the forum, even if the circumstances that brought you aren't great

[Jack Neary]

How's your Similis behaving now? Is he any better?
Jack

[Garter_Gertie]

Constipation from impaction from eating substrate with meal? Thrashing and reguring both point to that...