My new Flame Eastern garters.

[.: Laura :.]

:P Aww, remember!
"It's okay to eat fish cos they don't have any feelings"

[dragunov.762]

i love nirvana

[.: Laura :.]

Me too especially that track

[Nafun]

After hearing what goes into wayne's garter chow, I decided to make some myself. (had tried fish filet and pinks with no luck).

1.75lbs of raw salmon
38 pink mice
a handful of turtle pellets
a dusting of calcium

Combined it all in the food processor and.....

It smells exactly as bad as it sounds... but the garters seem to love it, and now i've got a couple pounds in the freezer in individual serving bags. So hopefully I won't have to make more for a long time.

[infernalis]

They will grow quick on that....

[ineedsoap16]

Man, I've lived in DE most of my life and have been catching garters forever. I've never seen something like that in the wild! Are they a captive morph, or am I not looking in the right areas?

[Nafun]

They're a naturally occuring morph from canada

[ineedsoap16]

Wow, they were my first caught snake, and probably most caught. That is soooooo sweet.

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by ineedsoap16

Man, I've lived in DE most of my life and have been catching garters forever. I've never seen something like that in the wild! Are they a captive morph, or am I not looking in the right areas?

They occur frequently in certain parts of Canada, but often not as red.

The deep candy apple reds are the result of selective breeding, For instance when I breed my flames, I am using my extreme cherry red male to sire babies with my high red female.

This will produce a litter of outrageously red babies.