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Happy birthday Tank! Hey Steve, hoping all is well and it’s nice to be back!

Also, most baby garters need a moving target to elicit a feeding response. Certainly going from wild to captive is a stressor on the babies in general. Established sub adult and adults will adapt...

Nice. Are both pictures of the same reptile? Pic #1 looks like it may be a red spotted (t.s. concinnus). Pic #2 looks like a red sided ( t.s. parietalis), or valley garter (t.s. fitchi). If the pics...

Another thing you can try is to scent the feeding dish and the safe food with minnows and then put in whatever you want to feed in the dish and watch the show. There is something about minnows that...

Try feeding the infernalis baby sliced thawed Sally's San Francisco Bay Brand Silversides mixed with chopped thinly sliced nightcrawlers. Place the mixture in a shallow saucer or bottle top as to...

Congrats Zdrav on all your successful pairings. It sounds like you've been doing your homework. Lol. I have some pairings that I am still waiting on.
Albino checkered 100% het granite just produced...

Whoa! On fire for real....

Nice projects fellas! I am looking forward to my blue pugets , Cali reds, and albino granite checkereds. Good luck to everyone.

I would ditto what Eddie says. The garter does look like he has plenty of fat reserves also. Yes. Looks healthy.

Amazing craftsmanship! Grats...:eek:

Thank you Steve!! Ditto.....

Nice find in any case.

Thanks Steve! All the best to you and yours.

Ok. We will make that happen for sure. Happy Holidays. Looking forward to meeting you.

Thanks Eddie. Always a pleasure to hear from you. Enjoy the...

Thanks, really appreciate that. It seems like you thought of every detail with your bioactive enclosure. Amazing. I like the uv lighting addition along with the microclimate gradients.

Hi my long time friends and associates of the garter snake world! Thank you for all the birthday wishes. I have really missed posting on the forum but lifes challenges eventually come to all of us. I...

You may experience some domination behavior in a communal enclosure down the road and as the animals put on size. Usually you see it in same sex enviornments. However in that they are babies, be sure...

Oh, gotcha! Well, congrats on all your success with the other babies/litters in any case. Yeah, looking forward to the growth of the little oddity and how he turns out.

Wow Eddie! It looks like a coloration aberrancy. Maybe a paradox? Can't wait to see it when the reptile puts on some size. Are the scales intact? It's hard to really tell from the picture.

Great work Julio! I feel bad about the albino parietalis female, I know the feeling well. I guess it's part of the keeping we do. Take care of those babies and best of luck moving forward.

That's great! You may want to consider mixing in to your Aspen some Eco Earth or some cypress mulch to help with moisture. I just strategically place areas of Eco Earth in a couple of areas in my...

Great production Eddie! I just took the infernalis out of brumation, warmed them up and saw courting right away. Put the pickeringii and concinnus pairs down the next day. 3 months of cooling for...

Curious as to what substrate you were originally using prior to noticing the swelling ?

Thanks guys! I am glad that I was finally able to get this info up on the forum. Happy that you all enjoyed the read.

Wow, gorgeous looking reptile. Grats! I have a feeling it may be a foreign body that has gotten into the vent and started up some irritation. Maybe blocking the scent gland or cloaca region. Totally...

Even if some species can be sustainably taken from the wild, conservation is only part of the problem here. Flagrant abuse of Cgrity and compromising its ability to regulate sustainable trade. “It’s...