Garter morphs

[Jack Wheeler]

Hello,
I live in the UK and have 2 albino checkereds garters aswell as many other snakes, but i want to get more into garters and the various species and morphs of garter out there. But sadly in the UK there are hardly any people that sell many different species of garters Its a real shame cause to me some of the species and morphs are the best looking snakes out there right now.
So i was just wondering.. How do all you UK guys on here get the species that arent readily avaliable in the UK. Do you just wait and when one
crops up grab it, or do you get them shipped over?
I have emailed a few garter breeders from different places in europe so hopefully will be able to sort something out If there is anyone on here that breeds any of the uncommon species found in the UK that either lives in the UK or can ship them in then please comment Or if you can help in any way please comment.
Thankyou for any help you can provide
Jack

[infernalis]

Contact this forum member, he can set you in the right direction..

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[guidofatherof5]

Welcome to the forum.
Here's a link to our care sheet.
Garter Snake Care Sheet - Caresheets

[EasternGirl]

Welcome to the forum!

[chris-uk]

Welcome to the forum Jack.

I can certainly sympathise with your plight, the number of species available to us in the UK is limited. We've been lucky in getting a couple of less common species because we got connected with one of the other UK guys on here (actually my wife first contacted him via RFUK) and JohnC had been to Houten and Hamm this year and decided not tuo keep all 4 cuitzeoensis that he had, and later the person he brought a pair of Western Blacknecks back for decided not to keep them. So we got lucky by getting to know someone 45 minutes drive from us who had brought snakes back from Europe.
Its going to be another year or so before either of us start seeing babies out of out current snakes, but when they do breed it will increase the number of rarer species available. There are a few shops in the UK that occasionally have stock of garters, but generally they dont bring in anything tooo unusual. There are a few other UK owners that breed and post on here, although the only unusual morphs I'm aware of recently available aresome melanistic Easterns (you could try PMing Scorpian to see if he still has them).

[katach]

Welcome to the forum family! Would love to see pictures of the little ones.

[PINJOHN]

Welcome from a drizzly liverpool


if the snakes are in the mood i might have some baby's in the spring florida's, radix, checkered, redsided , if breeding is successful you would be welcome to take some.

[Jack Wheeler]

Cheers guys. So desperate fro some more amazing gartes

[guidofatherof5]

Join the crowd Jack.
Garters are the best kept secret in the snake hobby. I hope it stays that way.

[Jack Wheeler]

I will get my hands on some more some how. Dont know how but i will.