Forum: General Talk

While cleaning in the snake room today I came across this mystery snake. Now, it's not a mystery species, it's a T. s. parietalis - Red Sided...

I bought this snake from some ghetto shop and I have no idea what it is. Can you please identify it?

I have no idea what is going on at my house...but another one of my snakes passed suddenly. Bella, my young concinnus female, suddenly passed...

Found this girly while doing yard work.

Thought It was time to introduce Bonnie and Clyde!! I got them from Shawn Alexander and they've been eating and shedding like crazy!! They were sold...

I was doing some yard herping, re-arranging rocks, setting fish at the mouth of tiny crevices ( I know its kinda lame) there has been alot of...

After taking them out of hibernation & giving them time to settle in getting ready for a new season I have decided to do a little experiment & try &...

I found an ad on kijiji selling "Albino Florida Garter Snake" babies. They are selling the babies for $200 each and the female for $275. Is there...

Beautiful Radix, great pet. I guess either 11 days without food was too much more likely something else was wrong. I f**king knew there was...

Great forum! Its already been very helpful getting my snake set up. Nice photos as well. I caught a baby Ribbon (I think its a Ribbon) it has yellow...

Does Albinism reduce the eyesight of a garter? In other words does a wild type garter have better eyesight than an albino? My understanding is yes in...

So, my really old guy (13 yrs) just shed, but it was very odd, and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this in older snakes... Before he even went...

We found this guy along the Wapiti river just south of Grande Prairie Alberta, Canada. I have lived here my entire life and we always catch the...

How long would most of you let a 6" Thamnophis Radix go without eating before you humanely put it down? Or would you continue to try to feed until...

So as I said in my welcome thread I fell in love with a garter snake at PetsMart and wanted to buy it. I went in today all set, but I stopped to ask...

I have a playground of sorts for Radix's around my house and I keep coming acoss this big, fat, happy, gravid female. I really want to bring her in...

So there doesn't seem to be much information about garter snakes out there, and especially about their temperament. Do most garters have the same...

Garter Snakes inherently sneaky and borderline mischievous?

Adara 6 months old