Delilah the checkered garter.

[Rushthezeppelin]

Crap, now I'm thinking I should push her doc visit out to next weekend. Would probably work better anywho as my personal truck just had a strut fail on me and it's undrivable till fixed. My work probably won't let me use my work truck to do it. I guess that explains though why I never saw any signs of shedding when I got her till she shed 3 day later. She had already gone through her blue phase I guess ehhh?

[Rushthezeppelin]

Figures I missed the whole thing, she had her shed sometime in the last 3 hours. She was incredibly keen on getting her belly full ASAP too lol. Last meal she had was a smaller (for bait standards) nightcrawler last sunday.






Shed came out 100% all in one piece including eyecaps and anal cap. So glad I don't have to fret anymore lol. I love her colors right after shed.

[Qwerty3159]

Very pretty little snake.

[d_virginiana]

She brightened up a lot after the shed I like those two yellow dots on top of her head. I know a lot of garters have them, but the way they're outlined in black just makes them 'pop'.

[guidofatherof5]

Parietal spots is what they are called.

[Rushthezeppelin]

She brightened up a lot after the shed I like those two yellow dots on top of her head. I know a lot of garters have them, but the way they're outlined in black just makes them 'pop'.

Indeed she did. Her olive color is perfectly dead on green olive now. The dorsal stripe is almost pastel yellow it's so light now. The turquoise of her skin is now a light aqua. Had her out right before bedtime tonight and was admiring her. She's also back to being super calm while handled after that shed. She even came up and tasted my old friend who was over earlier. Also I was looking at my two sheds side by side. New one is 3" longer which kinda surprised me as I didn't think she had really grown much in my care. I surmised it might have something to do with her being about twice as fat as she was when I found her though since she shed 2 or 3 days later.

[Rushthezeppelin]

Delilah got a nice treat today. Instead of a tons of little feeder guppies I managed to snag two full grown males off my friend today. She gobbled both of them up and didn't even have a bulge on her so I had to throw her the other 3 babies I had left in my tank. I figured out how to get her to eat fish without using a ton of energy too. Just throw the fish down on the carpet in the feeding cage and hold her face right in front of it. Once it twitches she strikes and usually misses a couple of times. It's funny to watch her chase down the flopping fish and then end up biting it right in the middle and watching her try to reposition the meal without losing it. All in all I think she had a blast and rewarded me with being a little photogenic with good lighting as she was basking her meal off.

[guidofatherof5]

Looks happy.

[Rushthezeppelin]

Finally figured out how to weigh her today. I reload my own rounds and happen to have a fancy digital scale. It was a little tricky figuring out how to get her to hold still on ther but I found a jar lid I managed to tare out and got her to hold still in. She is 11.17 grams (or 172.3 grains) and I also measured her out at 11 1/2 inches. I swear I measured her 10 1/2 just a few weeks ago. She's growin and man is she fat now, her fatness fits her scales a bit better now too after that shed

Edit: Also my truck recently started having problems so I only have my work truck which I can't go out of the way with. That means I might not be able to get fish for her for a bit (at least clean ones). I do have a petco on the way home though and I was thinking about buying some flukers to supplement her worms. Whats the recommended usage on a medium sized nightcrawler sized meal?

[Rushthezeppelin]

Ignore the audio, forgot to mute my tv.