The state of the thamnophis hobby

[Tommytradix]

One of your biggest expenses in business and getting your products out there and sold is ADVERTISING! We, as breeders need to make appearances at these expos and these reptile shows. We have to promote the garter for what it is. The classic beginners snake and everything else has followed that lead.

i sell 100-200 garters a year. more than half of this years litters got exported to china. the probelem is not advertising. its the contradicting captive care and husbandry that is floating around the internet.

[guidofatherof5]

i sell 100-200 garters a year. more than half of this years litters got exported to china. the probelem is not advertising. its the contradicting captive care and husbandry that is floating around the internet.

It would be helpful and informative if you could list some of contradictions. Thanks.

[AntTheDestroyer]

It would be helpful and informative if you could list some of contradictions. Thanks.

I have witnessed several occasions over the past year where someone goes on a rant about the difficulties of keeping garters. It leaves me scratching my head, but apparently they have a reputation. I think the biggest example is with feeding. There doesn't seem to be any cookie cutter guide, which in part is due that it varies from species to species. I think this turns a lot of people off of garter snakes.

[joeysgreen]

People like easy. Mice only, mice all the time. Any species that deviates, or has the potential to deviate from that, is risqué.


Tommy, I sure hope they didn't eat those snakes, or rip out their gall bladders for erectile dysfunction!