Garter Bachelor Pad of Kansas

[katach]

Looking very good.

[InsanePirateDragon]

Just an update on everybody for the moment.

Miss Turtle is settling in fine and eating up all the nightcrawlers without a problem so I'm now going through them twice as fast, I might have to start buying them in bulk.

Both Marley and Sully are still eating really well. Silly Marley will only eat if his dish is in front of his rock hide so he can take his bounty inside now. But he is getting out more now and he's taken up hiding in the lip of the tank between the screen and plastic and absolutely freaking me out.

And Sully is eating out of my hand like a pro, though he still prefers his food dish which he's starting to catch onto feeding time as he'll wait by it.

And apparently he's missed the memo that he's an albino. He's out constantly during the day, mostly sitting at the top of his plants. He hasn't gotten the idea of climbing just yet but probably will eventually.

[guidofatherof5]

Good to hear things are going so well.

[InsanePirateDragon]

So nothing new really, Sully shed again already and is starting to get excited when he see's the hemostats, so he know who brings the food.

And I think it turns out that all I believe after reading KS laws (confusing in its self) that I can only 5 of either Radix and Parietalis with a KS hunting license since they both are native species.

But reading more of it, I don't think I'll be able to own a Checkered with them being endangered here in KS. But the others are at least fair game.

[InsanePirateDragon]

So my phone is in the shop at the moment so I don't have pictures, hopefully I'll get shots of everybody before I send them off to their vacation while I go on mine.

But Some great news!

Marley is going out on his first classroom gig soon!

My mother is a preschool teacher and they have a week dedicated to reptiles and usually she would just want my old and calm gecko Commanda before she died as my mother trusted her to not run away or bite anyone compared to my Fry.

But Marley and Miss Lightning Flash the box turtle will be going in to teach the kids about the local reptiles. I'm really excited about this, I love teaching kids about reptiles since reptiles except the copperhead and cottonmouth always have people worried. I can and try to hook some little ones into Garters and with Marley's personality he should be able to hook them in and calm enough to not freak them out with their screaming and yelling. Marley is quite use to noise with the loud rock and metal that tends to blair in the house.

I would take Sully, but I don't think he's ready just yet, he's growing fast! (Measured after last shed earlier in the week at almost 9 inches) So he might get to visit in another year or so, we're still getting to know each other. He's calming down and is letting me handle him a lot more but we're a still work in progress.

[katach]

That's really cool! Don't forget to take pics and get permission to post them. I like to see the little one with reptiles.

[InsanePirateDragon]

Most certainly I'll see if I can get any pictures, I know they're pretty strict about pictures, and I really wish they weren't. Its a christian preschool thing I think.

[InsanePirateDragon]

Unfortunately, still don't have a camera, but first day of reptile visits went fairly decently.

Marley was a bit nervous being in the travel tub but he did calm down and a couple of the kids got brave enough to pet his back which he didn't mind one bit, and I brought a couple of past skins I've been saving for trips like these that I passed around while I told Marley's story while I showed him off.

But they seemed to enjoy Lightning the Box Turtle mostly because I brought a little pen for her so she could go on the ground and offered her some alfalfa to eat, though she was fed some worms that morning.

And Fry stayed in his carrier, but the kids took a peek, he was being a bit grumpy and doing some tail waving. He hates traveling and out of enclosures he is not to be trusted but the kids think he's still cool.

Tomorrow its going back again to show the other class, which from what I'm told is the much more rowdy class.

[ProXimuS]

Thats really cool! I'm sure the kids are loving it. When my snake shed a couple weeks ago, I gave it to my grandma to show to her class of 2nd and 3rd graders. She said they all thought it was cool

[InsanePirateDragon]

Yeah little kids have a better time with skins than live guys. Sully might do it in the fall, depending on how big he is then, I know that would get them excited, a lot of them probably haven't seen white snakes small enough for them.

Oh and anyone familiar with the Chicago area and what possible garters might be up there, I might try to actually do some herping around the lake, which I've never actually done before instead of the tried and true 'lets dig in the woods and see if I find anything'.

I know I missed out on the big reptile show there. I've been dying to go to a bigger show than the KC Reptile Expo. It was just so small and no garters in sight at any of the booths which made me kind of sad, and a couple of them did chuckle a bit when I mentioned I kept garters.

But at least the Reptile Store is happy to watch them, they've been getting a kick of the pictures I've been showing them, and Snake Guy there actually loves Garters.

And my critters will be taking up a nice sized corner of the boarding tanks now with Sully and Lightning added to the folds.