Stefan's garters

[Gijs & Sabine]

I'm glad you like the male, Stefan
I hope your ladies will like him.

[Stefan-A]

I'm glad you like the male, Stefan
I hope your ladies will like him.

I'm sure they will.

I just gave him a pinky. He was pretty enthusiastic about it.

[anji1971]

Congratulations!
They do have some really nice facial markings. I like.

[drache]

congrats, Stefan
very nice boy
the snakes with the beautiful facial markings are vagrans??
the don't look like garters
am I missing something?

[infernalis]

congrats, Stefan
very nice boy
the snakes with the beautiful facial markings are vagrans??
the don't look like garters
am I missing something?

Here is what you may have missed....

I expected the viperine snakes to be a lot bigger.

[drache]

ahhh
okay
I'll probably find what they are, if I back-track a bit

[Stefan-A]

ahhh
okay
I'll probably find what they are, if I back-track a bit

Natrix maura. It is roughly the equivalent of North American water snakes, only smaller and a lot less feisty. Like your water snakes, this little water snake also mimics venomous snakes. Nerodias mimic Agkistrodon, if I remember correctly, and Natrix maura mimics Vipera.

[Stefan-A]

[drache]

very nice
I'd never seen any
the natrix I grew up with was mostly mud coloured

[anji1971]

So they are the natrix! I was confused by the talk of the vagrans in the midst of all that, and I was wondering why they looked so unusual for garters.
Guess you managed to work out all the bugs in getting them. Good to hear!