Mountain Garters

[Odie]

Hi, from Oregon, Joe

[ssssnakeluvr]

They look like t elegans elegans to me....I will be working with t elegans terrestris...as soon as I can get a male!!!!! I have a large female...just waiting for a male!

[cornsnakesalive]

So far, this seems to be the preferred technique for a Garter to eat a mouse. The only ones that have taken them head first were off of tongs.

This male is very yellow especially when compared to the females. They yellow stripe next to his belly is much brighter and saturated with color than on the females. The females lower stripe is mostly black/gray with only a thin faded yellow strip of color above the black.

[Snaky]

A beauty. I can say from my experience that they do not have a preferred technique. Most of mine just 'attack' in the middle and start eating at the side they are the closest to. Sometimes it's the front, sometimes the back... they are not really picky