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    Re: Do You Recommend Feeding Your Garters in a seperate Terrarium?

    Ah... My first bad garter bite...
    I was at the reptile show last month when I saw a nice parietalis for sale. I asked what the sex was and it was female. So the guy, with out me asking, took it out of the box it was and handed it to me. First came the musk. LOADS. Then the biting. It was horrible. She aimed for all the gaps in my hands and finally latched onto the upper side of the skin between my thumb and pointer finger. So I'm standing there, people staring at me, as this snake eats the living hell out of my hand. But I saw through it all; she was peeved at being out in the open, under a hot light, odd noises all around her...
    Today she's a great eater, doesn't bite or musk while I handle her, not even when I had to use tape to remove her eye scales from a retained shed, and is very pleasant to me. But not to food. Her fitting name is Mizz Chopz. :P
    They can be VERY nasty though. But not nearly as mean as Nerodia. *Shudder.* x.x
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    Re: Do You Recommend Feeding Your Garters in a seperate Terrarium?

    Quote Originally Posted by Zephyr View Post
    Ah...
    They can be VERY nasty though. But not nearly as mean as Nerodia. *Shudder.* x.x
    My Aqua never bit me yet, or musked. He goes all spaz, but no bites or musk yet, and we had him a year now.


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