Chris' garters

[chris-uk]

The thought had crossed my mind Steve. It's a bit mean to give him a whiff of a female then snatch her away mid-court, but I'm curious too as to whether it's just that he knew the shed was just a shed or whether he wasn't interested in courting full stop.

I know for sure that if I was to Vlad in a tank with Lacci they'd be at it in minutes, he goes mad when he can smell her. Lipwig I'm not sure of, but it might be more to do with Adora Belle not smelling appealing. There could be an interesting trial coming up.

[EasternGirl]

Nice update...thanks, Chris. It still fills my heart with sadness and joy when I think about you caring for John's snakes...may he rest in peace. Hey...whatever happened to the snake cam that you were streaming?

[chris-uk]

I've not got the cam setup again since moving house. Maybe I'll get it sorted out if I can work out somewhere out of a toddler's reach.

John's snakes are doing well, I'm sure that the ones Greg has are doing well too.

[chris-uk]

I know it would be cruel to the male but it would be interesting to see how he reaches to the real thing in a separate container with you supervising the encounter.

I was a bit mean to Lipwig. He's been on the prowl for days, so this afternoon I gave him five minutes supervised in the girls' viv. He was more interested in the parietalis than the radix, and didn't go near Lacci who was just giving him £*@# off vibes from under her warm hide.

He had already refused food this afternoon, I'd quite like him to get over the horny phase and eat as he lost a few grammes in brumation.

[chris-uk]

Lipwig is back on a hungry phase, which is good as he had an 11 week fast before he went into brumation (one of the reasons I brumated him). He did however regulate his food intake this evening and stopped after a pinky, a pinky head and several smelt. I'm hoping he'll keep up the eating phase for a while as he is about 5g below his weight from last summer, he's also unpredictable with food and 4 week spells without eating aren't unusual.

I also seem to be going through a Spring shed fest. So far 5 in two weeks. I've still got a few that haven't shed since August, but a couple of those are still in the garage. Two weeks time and I'll be bringing them in from the cold.

[chris-uk]

As someone with 17 garter snakes I expect to see a shed every now and then, I caught Lipwig (male radix) starting his shed on Saturday and grabbed my camera to film it... or would have done if my camera hadn't been upstairs, so I used my phone instead which only captured the first 3 minutes.
Then, because I use Google Plus and automatically backup photos from my phone to the cloud G+ decided to Autoawesome the video (for those that aren't aware, Autoawesome will edit a video or photos and add music etc), so I thought I'd share the video of Lipwig getting his head clear.
He struggled to free the shed on his lower jaw so just after the end of the video I helped him free it and then he slithered out of the rest of his shed without any trouble.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4m...it?usp=sharing
The link is to the video on my Google Drive, I've not tried sharing a video like this before but it should open for anyone using the link.

[guidofatherof5]

Your link worked fine. Glad Lipwig had a complete shed. Good looking group your have there Chris.

Never heard of Autoawesome before and not sure I would trust it to infer the intent of my videos, interesting though.

[chris-uk]

Never heard of Autoawesome before and not sure I would trust it to infer the intent of my videos, interesting though.

I wouldn't trust rely on it to edit a video if I wanted the video to show something specific. However, it is great when you consider that all I do is take video or photos on my phone and I'll often get a message telling me there's an Autoawesome waiting for me to view a few hours later. If I like it I save, often I'll tweak it a bit myself. It also combines a series of photos into sideshows or montage. It's quite awesome. :-)

[Jeff B]

Chris that was an awesome video. Even more awesome was the 1970s porn music, I was expecting to see a pair of garters lock up at any second. Reminded me of the new Klondike Kandy Bar commercial.

[chris-uk]

I thought about changing the music from the 70's porn music that Autoawesome decided to use. But then I thought I'd leave it so that others could get the same question I did when I first watched it... "Are you watching porn on your phone? While I'm sat next to you?", said the wife.