Stefan's garters

[adamanteus]

That little 'Viperine' is very nicely marked. Love the last picture.

[Stefan-A]

That little 'Viperine' is very nicely marked. Love the last picture.

You can see him (probably a "he") flattening his head a bit. Doesn't like me very much.

[drache]

very nice Stefan
didn't take you long to figure out the camera

[Stefan-A]

Thanks, everybody.

very nice Stefan
didn't take you long to figure out the camera

I still have much to learn, though. It seems easier than I expected, though.

[adamanteus]

I had a couple in the past, a long time ago, but they were quite drab and 'olive' in colouration compared to your boy. He's lovely.

[Stefan-A]

I had a couple in the past, a long time ago, but they were quite drab and 'olive' in colouration compared to your boy. He's lovely.

Yeah, but I almost like the striped one more.

They are a bit picky, though. One of them eats salmon slices (that I know of), the other one I'm not so sure about. They won't usually feed if somebody's watching, you have to leave food in there overnight, which means that you can't mix live fish with salmon pieces in shallow water and hope they'll catch one by accident and learn that way to eat dead food, because the fish will be stone dead by the time the snakes finally get the courage to inspect the food dish..

They are giving me grey hairs. I really should separate them and find out if they both take dead food or not.

[adamanteus]

They were a nightmare for me too! But discovering which was eating and which was not, was made easier for me by the unfortunate 'escape-down-the-plug-hole-never-to-be-seen-again-during-routine-cleaning-operation-incident'!!!!
I was very young, and knew nothing of basic plumbing!

[Stefan-A]

They were a nightmare for me too! But discovering which was eating and which was not, was made easier for me by the unfortunate 'escape-down-the-plug-hole-never-to-be-seen-again-during-routine-cleaning-operation-incident'!!!!
I was very young, and knew nothing of basic plumbing!

So, you "disappeared" it?

[adamanteus]

Well, I didn't understand how easy it would have been to strip out the waste water trap and (probably) retrieve the snake.

[Stefan-A]

Yeah, I'm still kicking myself over a couple of mistakes that I'm sure as hell not going to tell anybody here about.