Millinex's garters that cross my hands.

[Millinex]

I'm given a myriad of snakes every year from people who would really rather kill them, areas being bulldozed, handed to me because it was found in the house. All sorts of things bring snakes into my hands. The first of the season is this female:



She's about 2 foot long, and within 5 minutes of being home was more than willing to devour 2 live hopper mice. Most of these animals I end up feeding to a solid weight, making sure are in good health, and get sold to people who are looking for a great starter snake.
Most re-released snakes do not make it, so I'd rather them go to someone as pets, where they have a solid home/food than a high chance of death.

I'm keeping her in a 1x1 tub with a small box hide and a water dish, she's doing great, siting in her hide on her heat pad digesting her meal without moving so much as a muscle in 24 hours.

[infernalis]

Good for you for doing this.

Don't you think she would be happier in a nicely decorated tank

[Millinex]

Good for you for doing this.

Don't you think she would be happier in a nicely decorated tank

I'm moving the monitor out of the 4x2 display cage this week. I'm really REALLY tempted to put her inside of it, decorate it, the whole works.. Just to prove a point.. She will sit there in the hide under the heat pad just like every other snake. I'd rather use my space for something that will use it's cage, like the ever hungry pine snake.

[infernalis]

Speaking of space, I just had a 4 foot by 4 foot pre-framed picture window given to me.

My black racer would probably use every inch of a 4x4x4 cube cage.

[Millinex]

Speaking of space, I just had a 4 foot by 4 foot pre-framed picture window given to me.

My black racer would probably use every inch of a 4x4x4 cube cage.

I can fully say with all honesty my pine snake would use every inch of the 7x4x4 my asian water monitor is kept in. I say this because even after feeding her a jumbo rat the size of a squirrel, she still is after more food within a day, it's impossible to fill that snake.

As for a racer, I highly doubt it, I'd probably put something that needs it in there, like a lizard species, or a pit.

-Mike

[brain]

Excuse the detour. Love the fence lizard on your site. I haven't seen one in years. I take it they are WC?

[Millinex]

Excuse the detour. Love the fence lizard on your site. I haven't seen one in years. I take it they are WC?

Indeed they are, probably one of the best possible easy captive lizards available, everyone I sell these to loves them.

-Mike

[RedSidedSPR]

Good for you for doing this.

Don't you think she would be happier in a nicely decorated tank

here we go again

[brain]

Indeed they are, probably one of the best possible easy captive lizards available, everyone I sell these to loves them.

I use to catch them house them (until mom found out about them as a kid growing up in Marin County CA.
Those were the days also where I could get a SF Garter. Ahhh youth

[RedSidedSPR]

I use to catch them house them (until mom found out about them as a kid growing up in Marin County CA.
Those were the days also where I could get a SF Garter. Ahhh youth

I have a lot of fence lizards near my house. Never kept one, though.

were the SF garters still illegal to keep?