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Originally Posted by abcat1993
Why is that? I was either going to get them or a melanistic eastern as my next garter. (According to Scott Felzer, Florida Blues are the biggest of the garters he sells).
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I had a number of Florida Blues before Ohio decided they were native to Ohio.
They would rather strike and bite than be handled, without exception. My 42 inch Florida blue bit my right hand when I was sexing her. She left an imprint in bloody tooth marks where she bit me, which was in the web of the thumb-forefinger. She got my hand all the way into her mouth, and bit so hard that the tooth marks made a perfect imprint of the inside of the roof of her mouth... you could even see where her eyes were, the rows of teeth, etc.
A herper who was teaching me to probe said, "Are you allright?!?" and I replied... "Not the first time I've been bitten, and won't be the last...
