Expo Houten, Netherlands

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Yesterday there was an expo from the European Snake Society in Houten, the Netherlands.

When I went home I was five Thamnophis-specimen richer

At first I went to get the snakes I ordered in advance.


To begin with this one...

A second female Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia (so now I have 1.2)

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Also ordered in advance two captive bred (2006) Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis-black, a male and a female.


The female...


The male...

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And to my big surprise I found a male and female Thamnophis hammondii, capitve bred in 2006 by Steven Bol.

The Female


The male

[CrazyHedgehog]

cool.....the black versions are my all time favourite!

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Black is beautiful

[Boots]

You are lucky, I went to a reptile show recently, and there was not one garter snake to be seen. It was like they never existed. Very disappointing!

Jason

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This expo was only for snakes.
And for every garter snake there were at least 300 Panterophis/Lampropeltis present. Not to mention the ballpythons, Boa's and venemous snakes.

[ssssnakeluvr]

It's sad...not a lot of garter breeders out here.... We are having our annual reptile expo here in Utah this weekend. Eventually I am hoping to have a booth there, but for htis year I am working at the Reptile Rescue booth. Last year I saw about 5 garters at the expo...i bought a pair of young adult red siders and saw a couple baby plains garters. There was a guy that was sent to me...said he had an eastern that had about 25 babies andhe was looking to sell them. When I found the guy, he said he let the mother go....I looked at the babies, they were wandering garters, local snakes....what a goon! I let h im know they were local snakes and he left.

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In Holland we have a few great Thamnophis-breeders and thanks to them there are garters on the bigger expo's.
The only garters I saw on the tables from general snake-sellers were some sirtalis sirtalis, two albino radix (?) and that was all.
So, in Holland there are also not may garters presented.

[knowsnothing]

man i really love the red one, the black is very nice too, isnt that sirtalis-sirtalis the one you said is typical in eastern us?