How many Snakes?

[GarterGuy]

@sid

can you post some pictures of your rough green snakes??
im very interesseted in this snakes!but everytime the people say they are hard to handle!whats your impression?

I've worked with and actually bred Rough Green snakes before. I don't think they're all that hard to care for as long as you start out with healthy snakes to begin with. The biggest problem with them is feeding. Usually though, they take crickets very well and I offered mine cabbage worms too, which they loved ( I grew them myself on plants on my deck) they may take silkmoth larva as well, but never really tried them. They're almost like keeping some of your smaller lizards (like anoles), just with out legs!

[Sid]

@sid

can you post some pictures of your rough green snakes??
im very interesseted in this snakes!but everytime the people say they are hard to handle!whats your impression?

Markus,
When first pick up the Green Snakes do get some what hyper. Simply handle them gently and allow them to slither throuth your hands and they calm down very quickly.
I feed mine crickets and other insects.

Sid

[abcat1993]

Matt, this is your dad. I've been secretly monitoring your posts, and you're grounded young man! Now go tell your mom you're sorry. heh heh heh .

Then my dad certainly knows a lot about garters

[El Nino]

2 Thamnophis ordinoides (wild caught)
1 Grey Banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna)
2 Felis domesticus (1 silver tabby, 1 orange tabby)

[El Nino]

I would love a green snake.....I should go back east to catch one.

[Cazador]

El Nino,
How about posting a couple pictures of your T. ordinoides? Please include at least one close-up of its head.
Rick

[Markus18]

thanks sid for posting a picture!
in summer 2005 i saw rough green snakes in canada!i maked a photo.next time i post it up in here!
markus

[El Nino]

El Nino,
How about posting a couple pictures of your T. ordinoides? Please include at least one close-up of its head.
Rick

I will get a pic as soon as I get a camera.

The two Thamnophis were wild caught in central Kitsap Co. near the town of Chico on Erlands Point (This is the face shaped peninsula[nose pointing east] jutting north into Oyster Bay, NNE about 1/2 inch from thr Bremerton dot)


The person who identified them as T. ordinoides was a local herp breeder who works with Elaphe, Lampropeltis, rarer Pituophis, et. al. She did not indicate anything about T. ordinoides as to imply rareness, just that it was nice not to see just another T. sirtalis again .

It sparked a re-interest in Thamnophis though (as much as I hate to say, my original plan for catching wild garters was to feed my Gray-Banded Kingsnake).

[suzoo]

I have 7 common colored Eastern Garter Snakes. My children & I catch and release many non-venomous species during the warmer weather, but we raised the Garters from a wild caught Mom and released her and most of the babies. We kept 4 female babies. And caught a baby male the same year. Plus we had 2 babies from a different Mom from the previous year. They are kept in a 55 gallon vivarium.

[jewel-dragons]

1.5 Th. Sirtalis Tetrataenia
0.1 Th. Infernalis
1.2 Thamnophis Marcianus

that makes 10 totally,bu i have more bearded dragens..... :=)