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Red Spotted Oregon Gartersnake

Barry T S

Barry T S

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Just bought an adult Oregon Garter Snake, believe it to be a 'he'. Has a very long, tapering tail. He's a beauty, with an orange face & large quite piercing eyes. Black body with redish speckles on his sides, has a vivid silver/grey line along his back, over the spine. Quite different to a Corn, very active in the day (and into the night! 11pm he goes to bed) He is very jumpy, inquisitive too, doesnt miss anything going on around him. Harder to catch than my corn, much quicker moving. Will musk you if you pick him up, IF you can catch him! He is always bulldozering the substrate around & 're-organising' the hides/waterbowl etc.. I will post a photo sometime.
Anybody else experienced with gartersnakes?
 
Me and Dean (Roy Munson) both have/had garters. I recently gave up mine but Dean has some nice specimens!
I can't wait for pics! I love garters...
 
Just realized this topic is posted in the wrong section, apologies for this.

When its daylight I will photograph him & post the photo(s).
Not sure where to post the photo's, please advise.

Barry.
 
Hmm, the ones around here don't get quite so dark, but I imagine it can be selectively bred for in captivity. I see quite a few of them around here!
 
I moved this thread to the proper forum. :)

That's a beautiful garter you have there. :cheers: Those are on my "wanted" list. I have a pair of Eastern Black-Necked garters and a male Puget Sound blue garter.
 
shed'n my skin said:
Hmm, the ones around here don't get quite so dark, but I imagine it can be selectively bred for in captivity. I see quite a few of them around here!
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This is the first Garter I have seen in a shop over here. More usually Corns, Kings, Milksnakes & Royal Pythons (Ball).

You are indeed privilaged to see snakes like this, take it they're quite common in Oregon. What time of year did you photography those two?

We have only three native snakes, the Grass Snake, common Adder (mildly venomous) & the smoothsnake. Very rare to glimpse any of these, only the Grass Snake is found near Nottingam. About the size of a Garter, similar in that they like to be near ponds etc.. & feed on amphibians. Far too timid to catch & keep, would die of the stress more than likely.
 
Barry, this was just a couple of weeks ago but we had been having unusually mild weather around here. When it's warm there are hundreds of them, it was a surprise to see them in early February though :)
 
I Thought it looked like Autumn/Winter, with the leaves on the trees etc....
Certainly no British snakes about at the moment. Very cold (by English standards) at the moment. About +1 to 2 degrees centigrade in the day & up to -8 and frost/freezing fog at night.
 
garters are a lot of fun. I have a pair of Florida Blues in a 55g vivarium, complete with 8gallon fishing hole (though they don't get much live fish these days, plenty of fresh caught salmon and stealhead instead)
 
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