Share your Elgaria pics!

[Stefan-A]

Interesting-looking natricines.

[Steven@HumboldtHerps]

Interesting-looking natricines.

I thought the lounge was a place where you could talk about things other than garters!

[Stefan-A]

I thought the lounge was a place where you could talk about things other than garters!

It is, but the normal policy is that the animals that get their own threads in the lounge should at least be New World or Old World natricines. The rest should in principle be posted either in suitable existing threads or if one can come up with a topic that's versatile enough that there's no need to start a new practically identical thread in the future, then it would be okay to discuss these in the Lounge. A rule of thumb could be that the topic should preferably be broad enough to include garters or at the very least their close relatives. In other words, if you want to discuss Elgaria, you can do it in a thread that leaves room for everything under Squamata.

I'll leave this one alone, for now. But I won't make a habit out of it.



It all goes back to a period when they (the staff at that time) did allow anything at all to be discussed in the Lounge. The Lounge and eventually other sections started to get clogged up with threads about issues that have absolutely nothing to do with the name of the forum and that would have been much more appropriate on forums dedicated to those issues. When it was at its worst, people did post five times as much, but almost no posts were actually about garters. So we started implementing much stricter rules to get the situation back under control. It wasn't pretty and people weren't happy, but the change did what it was intended to do.

[Steven@HumboldtHerps]

I'm sorry, I didn't think about that. Your explanation is sound. If I have new pic posts off genera, I'll use the nature photography thread.

It's just so tempting to share other stuff. I usually have to squeeze in time to make posts, so I dare not bog myself down with the hunt for other (perhaps more applicable) forums. After all, I do like to focus on Thamnophis.

[tspuckler]

I love Alligator Lizards. I found the best looking Northern I've ever seen on Easter Sunday:



And I've seen some Southerns with quite a bit of red (not the best example, but you get the idea):