Mike's picture thread yo

[Millinex]

Currently only have 3 garters but what the heck I'll join the crowd and make a thread.
All 3 cuddling:

The only real tame one of the group:

The super skitso aggressive one:

The one that has been through hell, missing bit of tail, and the rest of the stub is pretty scarred up, escaped death!

All 3 again:


I believe all 3 to be T. elegans vagrans, but if anyone else can shed some light and confirm that would be great. All found at varying elevations in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

[GartersRock]

They look like vagrans to me too! Gorgeous little guys!!

[Stefan-A]

I agree, they all seem to be vagrans.

[Millinex]

As I suspected, such a diverse species, so many colors I've found and each one is so different.

I just hope the biggest one doesn't decided to turn her jumpiness into aggressiveness and take my face off lol.

We'll see what I manage to find after I go herping tomorrow, I finally found my first non-garter in the wild, a black racer, and fastest snake ever, barely got away..

Such a shame, I have 3 30 gallon bins to fill!

[guidofatherof5]

[quote=Millinex;111401]As I suspected, such a diverse species, so many colors I've found and each one is so different.quote]

Sounds like diverse attitudes also. Good looking group. Thanks for posting.

[adamanteus]

Some nice looking vagrans there, beware of their cannibalistic tendancies!

[Millinex]

Some nice looking vagrans there, beware of their cannibalistic tendancies!

I've kept lots of wanderings all my life, and from what I've seen, as long as I keep them all well fed and healthy, they do fine together, one will be released tonight so it will only be the 2 larger ones together, now to get them to take the fish I'm offering...

[Snaky]

That's a nice group

[drache]

yup
nice looking group

[Millinex]

Well bad news today, was feeding my bull and my garters some mice and I noticed the injured garter not moving around. I picked her up and she was slightly bloated and was only moving her neck and head. I felt she was suffering and did the right thing and put her down quickly rather then dieing slowly like she was. Upon inspection of her she had a few injuries on her head and several around her lower body, her vent looked healthy when I got her but she was really squirming and wouldn't let me get a good look. Seems she got into a bad fight with something and lost, her vent inside was caked with blood, and had a big hunk of her side damaged decently, seems nothing I could really do.