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[guidofatherof5]

Nice find and nice looking snake.

[snakehill]

They are all beautiful snakes! I would want them all!

[ConcinusMan]

Hello,

I am a long time garter keeper, love them, they are awesome pretty snakes and ACTIVE that's the best part. My corn snakes will just hide or just never move, my garters are like OH HAI!, let me introduce them

Frosty and Serpent (Reg and albino checkered), born Sept 09 same litter captive bred

Here is a better look at serpents pattern



and then there are these 3 clowns that I built a super enclosure for, lots of climbing space to avoid constant kerplunks. These 3 are wild caught as newborns, these 3 were about 5 inches upon capture

There is 2 year old Slider (eastern plains), got his name after being attacked by a cat and losing part of its tail and received gashes and punctures in its side


1 year old Pepper (eastern plains), the king of his enclosure, owns the hide at the top corner of the enclosure looking upon everything that's below him


Then there is 4 year old Spot (red sided) got his name because he has 2 big black spots near his head and tail, my oldest garter but only about 18 inches long. This garter is very unique, super easy to handle, super active, comes to you when you open the lid, never musked unlike slider and pepper. Words really can't explain it but other garters would slip right out of your hands and potentially fall to the ground but this one will wrap itself around your fingers and loves to climb

I don't see a regular checkered. Only an albino checkered and a plains garter. Then a couple of easterns and a red sided. Good looking snakes you have.

Good looking snake.
Is that a scar on his back just down from his neck?

Looks suspiciously like scale rot.

[Kantar]

shhhh don't tell her she isn't a checkered

The albino checkered garter that went up for sale is officially in my hands and mine now It's a possible female, a year old and a foot long. It lived in a rack its whole life so its very skiddish and frightened, hoping to tame her down alot.

I don't think its scalerot, no scales are deformed and he would have been dead by now. It hasn't spread and its been 3 years. Its just a blotch of a different color

[RedSidedSPR]

Congrats on the new addition!

[Kantar]

Put pepper in with the new one, hopefully it helps the new one to relax a little bit, they are the same age and size

Now I just need to come up with a good name for an albino

[Kantar]

Should I be concerned if my new albino checkered sways its head side to side for like 5 seconds once in a while here and there?

[katach]

Can it see?

[Kantar]

yep its very alert and notices my hand waving from 6 feet away just now. Only other ones that did that was spot when he was younger and many years ago my sisters rat. Could they be dancing?

[Kantar]

here is the rat version for example

My rat sways her head - Critter City