Jasmine - My new eastern Garter Snake - Page 2

Rham_Es-Hestos · 03-10-10, 08:03 PM

Yeah, she has musked me, BUT, it was only about a minute after I caught her. SInce then, no musk, just pee.
I'll try and find some fish, tomorrow I get a work break, so I can probably go buy her some fish and stuff. Also a bigger water bowl.

Anyway, here's pics;

Rham_Es-Hestos · 03-10-10, 08:06 PM

moar!! Enjoy!

EDIT: I love how she just sat on my guitar while I played. She's so nice! By the way, decided to change her name to Jasmine.

infernalis · 03-10-10, 09:00 PM

Looks like you found one of the calmer ones.

Nice.

SlimeyLimey805 · 03-10-10, 11:25 PM

infernalis: WOW i have NEVER seen a snake that is so.. so BLUE! where did you get them? and what are they called (i gathered eastern garter but i mean if they're a specific morph or w/e)
Rham: i would recommend a shallow (as in a couple inches or less) dish of water with a live guppy in it (judging by your pic a rather large female? id say a female anyway but thats just me) i would try and make the dish shallow enough so the movement of the fish would disturb the surface of the water as to get the snakes attention. this worked just about every time with my garter snake (for the short time i had her) but she seemed to be very gun shy and liked me to leave the room before she performed her business. so i hope that this is helpful and your snake eats soon!

infernalis · 03-10-10, 11:58 PM

That blue one is called a Puget Sound garter snake, that is no morph, the occur naturally in the state of Washington.

Rham_Es-Hestos · 03-11-10, 08:54 PM

Can I feed my garter mealworms?

infernalis · 03-11-10, 09:08 PM

Nope not interested. They won't eat them.

Mealworms are insects, even though they say mealworms.

Rham_Es-Hestos · 03-11-10, 09:22 PM

Alright. Thanks then. I suppose I'll throw out the few that I bought. I will have to get someone to take me to the petsmart tomorrow to pick up some minnows and a new water dish. Right now I have a ceramic pot plate. The kind that you put the ceramic pots on. I've not seen her use it yet, dunno why. Perhaps she is lonely/not interested/scared?
Idont see why she'd be scared of it, I've been handling her and she's done extremely well with me, she'll just sit on my lap or my hands and sniff around. Her favorite perch is the head of my guitar, she sits on it, looking around at my room and sniffing the air. So cool.

infernalis · 03-11-10, 09:37 PM

A clear glass dish works best, the snake can see the movement and it will "trigger" feeding (hopefully)

Like I said, sometimes wild caught need a little time to settle in.

Garter snakes are resilient, and will soon grow accustomed to your presence.

Rham_Es-Hestos · 03-11-10, 10:01 PM

Alright. Well, I'll see what I can do about getting her settled in. She doesn't seem to
mind me. Moves around in her cage in my presence sometimes even (which I thought was good because when she first got here, she wouldn't dare to breathe if I was around).

Clear bowl should be easy to find somewhere. How long do you think she can go without food? I don't want to come home from school one day and find her starved to death.

infernalis · 03-11-10, 10:20 PM

If she has not eaten for two to three weeks straight, then I would worry.

A great place to find a water bowl on the cheap is at the Salvation Army thrift stores.

I get water bowls and food bowls for 25 cents each there.

SlimeyLimey805 · 03-12-10, 09:34 AM

naturally?! damn. i woulda never guessed. are they much more costly than your run of the mill garter? and do they all have such amazing coloring?

emseeKAY · 03-12-10, 11:07 AM

i would like to second that the puget sound garter? (is that right) looks absolutely amazing and i have now made that my mission in the next year or so to get one

hehehe, when my girlfriend asks why i bought "ANOTHER STUPID SNAKE" i'll tell her Wayne made me do it

haha i think she just gets mad that i talk about snakes so much hehehe

she really doesnt mind them

infernalis · 03-12-10, 12:27 PM

I paid a jerk (didn't know it at the time) $100 to send me a snake he caught in his back yard.

I am getting a CB female to breed with him, a friend has a litter on the way, so hopefully soon I will have some for sale.

She also suggested a breeding loan, and I would get 1/2 the litter from that.

Rham_Es-Hestos · 03-15-10, 02:30 PM

Been a week now. I've had worms, mealworms, and Rosie sides (think that's what they're called) in there with her. She seems to have no interest in them.
She's doing fine otherwise, she loves being handled and likes to sleep in the elbow of my shirt, all this I find odd. If she wasn't going to eat because she was uncomfortable around me, why not eat while I am gone, and why is she so nice around me?

Also, on a side note, I can hear her breathe sometimes. It sounds like a little pop when she breathes in. Just every once in a while. Not too often, I think only when she's excited. Kim thinks maybe a respiratory infaction. I'm going to give her regular warm baths and a hotter lamp.
Also, has anyone ever had a garter flatten their necks? When Jas doesn't wanna be held she runs away and flattens her neck like a cobra if I pick her up.