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ssssnakeluvr · 12-21-2006, 08:41 AM

Sorry for your loss, they were pretty little snakes!! Kinda sounds like he went out and caught gravid females and kept them until they gave birth then sold the babies....I have had occasional problems with wild caught snake babies dieing for no apparent reason. I have worked with Scott Felzer a lot and have gotten some "problem feeders" form him on occasion. There will always be a small percentage of babies die for no apparent reason...I have had a few seemingly healthy babies die on me, and they were eating well. Hopefully some of the other blue babies will survive and we can get some good captive born babies out th ere! I'm not sure how many other serious breeders are out there..in the U.S., but Scott and I are definitely serious about garters (Scott started breeding in 96 and has quite the collection now!).

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ssssnakeluvr "PM Boots For Custom Title" Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah Posts: 1,891 Country:	Re: All dead Sorry for your loss, they were pretty little snakes!! Kinda sounds like he went out and caught gravid females and kept them until they gave birth then sold the babies....I have had occasional problems with wild caught snake babies dieing for no apparent reason. I have worked with Scott Felzer a lot and have gotten some "problem feeders" form him on occasion. There will always be a small percentage of babies die for no apparent reason...I have had a few seemingly healthy babies die on me, and they were eating well. Hopefully some of the other blue babies will survive and we can get some good captive born babies out th ere! I'm not sure how many other serious breeders are out there..in the U.S., but Scott and I are definitely serious about garters (Scott started breeding in 96 and has quite the collection now!).