Meet the gang!

[kibakiba]

his little tank has 2 plastic plants and his hide in there I got him to eat most of one of my baby nightcrawlers... he's nice and fat now He's asleep in my hand right now. It's so cute!

[flickerfriend]

his little tank has 2 plastic plants and his hide in there I got him to eat most of one of my baby nightcrawlers... he's nice and fat now He's asleep in my hand right now. It's so cute!

Awwww your making me wish my wc wasnt so aggresive! i miss my snakies back in oregon

[kibakiba]

Awwww your making me wish my wc wasnt so aggresive! i miss my snakies back in oregon

Some snakes calm down over time, some don't. That's one of the fun things about garter snakes. They all have their own little personalities
Of course, it's never fun to have an aggressive snake when you want to keep it. Mama used to be aggressive and would hiss and strike at me from time to time but any time I was going into the tank it was to feed her and Snakey or to change the water, so she slowly learned that I'm not going to hurt her.

[ConcinusMan]

Some snakes calm down over time, some don't. That's one of the fun things about garter snakes. They all have their own little personalities
Of course, it's never fun to have an aggressive snake when you want to keep it.

That first sentence is very true but I don't agree with the last one. I've had plenty of aggressive snakes such gopher snakes and king snakes that were hostile as heck. Sometimes I like a snake with a bit of attitude. Nothing wrong with that, and yes, it can be fun to have one.

[kibakiba]

Mama is slithering backwards quite a bit today, is that normal? She's been doing it a little the past few days but I didn't thing anything of it, but i was letting her sit on my desk and she started slithering backwards and then she slithered onto my legs, turned around and slithered backwards up to my stomach. I've never seen her do that before. She slithered backwards when I put her in her tank again. She's eating fine and acts normal, just slithers backwards sometimes. Maybe I'm overreacting but I haven't seen a garter snake do that :P

[Stefan-A]

My wandering garters use that slithering backwards routine to get out of your grip when you handle them.

[kibakiba]

I wasn't holding her when she was on my desk or on my leg, or in her tank. She does pull herself backwards if she doesn't want me handling her, but this was her just... freely slithering backwards.

[Stefan-A]

I'm not talking about pulling backwards, I'm talking about freely slithering backwards.

Nevermind.

[kibakiba]

I mean it in a different sense but :P I didn't have my hand anywhere near her and I wasn't planning on moving her unless she got close to the edge. but again, I had never seen her do that so it made me curious.

[ConcinusMan]

My ordinoides and concinnus do that but usually only after they've grabbed a mouth full of food and don't want it to get stolen by the others. Sometimes the backward slithering goes all the way up the wall!