Stefan's garters

[jitami]

That's not so bad then. A little dusting... you could roll very thin slices of fillet around the vit powder, but probably not necessary

[Stefan-A]

The problem should be solved, I went out and got some of that good old TerraVit Fluid. It's multivitamin + calcium lactate, you can put it in the water or directly on the food.

Funny enough, the Natrix maura are supposed to be water snakes, but I've only seen one of them swim (once). The male vagrans on the other hand spends a lot of time in the water dish. I have to get him a bigger one.

I got the guy/gal below to hiss at me a couple of times while I was cleaning the enclosure. Coming from such a tiny snake, it sounded like a protracted sniff rather than a proper hiss. And considering its size, it must have been putting everything it had into that hiss.

[infernalis]

Damn that is so cool, none of my snakes hiss.....

Oddly Stefan my Nerodia spends less time in the water than most of my Garters. and they are called water snakes also??

[Stefan-A]

It is cool. I've never heard a garter make any kind of noise. Neither hissing nor rattling.

Edit: Yay, 5555 posts.

[jitami]

Cool post count

I don't know if the same holds true for your water babies, and I know you can't feed live, but my garter babies never went in their dish until this week. They would take a drink, but actually seemed to avoid getting wet. My husband even commented about how the babies really didn't like the water. I gave them live fish this week and now they constantly lounge in and on the dish waiting for fish to appear Before this week they've only had pre-killed food items. It made me wonder if most of the garters who spend time in the water have been conditioned to do so?

[Stefan-A]

We'll have to ask Gijs & Sabine about that. It's their vagrans. None of my other garter snakes have been fed live fish, at least not in my care, and none of them are very interested in using the water dish for anything other than drinking.

[Stefan-A]

62.5 cm




69.5 cm

I think they're both getting ready for brumation. I already arranged my snakes according to species, in case I decide to give these two a fake brumation. These two have their own enclosure now and the tetrataenia shares one with the parietalis.

[Stefan-A]

That same damn maura hissed at me,musked me and did several mock strikes when I cleaned their enclosure a few minutes ago. It was really upset.

[Garter_Gertie]

What a pudgy, happy fat little snake! So cute!

[Lori P]

I really, really like your new ones, Stefan!! Hisses, strikes and all!