My new Flame Eastern garters.

[Nafun]

I know the pictures are terrible, I only have my camera phone. No zoom, no flash.

I got these little guys from "garterchick" on thamnophis.com

They're flame easterns, and they're already coloring up really well, way better than the pictures illustrate.

These are only my second (and third) baby snake, everything else I've acquired as a yearling. I was totally not prepared for how tiny they are.

As soon as I popped open the styrofoam box they were in, one bolted from it at speed and hid under my keyboard. I expected hours of chasing it around the house and crawling around on my knees, but I picked up my keyboard, put my hand down, and it crawled right in.

I'm building a 2/3 land, 1/3 water enclosure for them, but they're too small as yet to go in it. I'm going to maintain the water part as a guppy aquarium and see if I can raise snakes and food together!

No names yet, suggestions are welcome.

I don't know what gender they are, hopefully they're both male or both female *fingers crossed*.